and falls off as the flower opens. Each peduncle is from one to two 
inches long, having at its base a linear bract. The flowers vary much 
in size, from 14 to 18 lines in length, the tube is sometimes 4 or 5 lines 
long, sometimes split almost to the base, and in colour they vary from 
an intense blue to white. 
The Agapanthus umbellatus, perhaps the only species known of 
the genus, is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and has been long in 
cultivation. It is a great ornament to those gardens where space can 
be afforded for the larger growing species of tender Cape bulbs. 
Several remarkable varieties in the size and depth of colour, in the 
breadth of the leaf, and height of the plant have already been figured, 
but the present one appears to be both scarce, and as yet unpublished. 
In the aspect of the plant, and the form of the flowers, it approaches 
nearest to the narrow-leayed variety figured by Redoute, vol. 7, No. 
403, of his Liliacee, but there is not any blue in the colour of the flow- 
er, and the tube is perhaps more deeply divided. “The peduncles in 
this, as well as in Redoute’s No. 403, are generally longer than the 
corolla, though not perhaps double the length, and this is so variable 
a character, that unless some differences in the internal structure be 
found, it is difficult to consider as a distinct species either the Agapan- 
us preecox, or the Agapanthus multiflorus of Willdenow. G. B. 
same kind of pro- 
but is in other respects easy 
requiring only plenty of room to come to perfection. 
Our drawing was made by Mr. Linneus Pope, of Handsworth, from a 
finely flowered plant in the possession of Captain Bennett, of Dudley, 
whose garden comprises many plants which rank amongst the rarest 
in cultivation. It is doubtless a seedling variety but of very rare oc- 
currence. Should be planted in loam. 
DERIVATION oF THE Names. 
AcaPantuvs, from ayarn AGAPE Love, and avOoc antHos a Flower,in allusion 
the loveliness of the flower. Umsextatvs, in an umbel, from the arrange- 
ment of the flowers, 
Synonymes. 
L’Heritier: Sertum Anglicum, p. 17." Botanical 
, and vol. 7, No. 403, Bota- 
AGAPANTHUS UMBELLATUs. 
Magazine, t. 500. Redoute’s Liliacees, v. 1, No. 6, 
nical i t. 699, 
Register, 
AGAPANTHUS PRacOx, Willdenow ; Enumeratio, p- 353, 
