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house, under the usual treatment of Cape bulbs. They 

 require a sandy soil, and are often, when well grown, orna- 

 mental ; but the plants are small, and make but little show. 

 The foliage of some of the species is prettily variegated. 



There are twenty or thirty species, all flowering in spring 

 or winter, of which the best are 



L. pendula. Scarlet and green flowers. 



L. quadricolor. Scarlet and green. 



L. luteola. Yellow. 



L. tricolor. Red, green, and yellow. 



L. unifolia. Green. 



L. anguinea. White, variegated foliage. 



L. purpureo coerulea. Blue and purple. 



THE STERNBERGIA. 



A family of autumn-blooming bulbs, with yellow flowers, 

 produced, one on a stalk, before the leaves. They grow 

 and flower freely in sandy loam, but are not very orna- 

 mental. Treatment the same as for Operanthus. The 

 species are S. colchiciflora and Clusiana, both with yellow 

 flowers ; the former a native of the Crimea, the latter of 

 Turkey. 



