supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Hart. Brit. 141 



Embryo monocotyledonous. 



CCXXXVIII. AmarylTkce32. . 



The Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert is preparing for publication 

 a revision of the order Amav^Wdcece, preceded by a review of 

 tlie defects of the present arrangement of monocotyledonous 

 plants, and an attempt to remove them. It is to contain between 

 thirty and forty copper-plate engravings, in which representations 

 of upwards of eighty "new plants" will be given; and it is to 

 *' contain ample details ; and is intended equally for the use of 

 the scientific botanist and the unlearned cultivator. A treatise 

 on hybrid vegetables v^xW be subjoined to it." 



§ 2. Scapdcece^ suborder Schistandrce Herbert. 



74a. COOPE^R/^ Herb. [Mr. Joseph Cooper, who has now had, for upwards of twenty years, the 

 management of the botanic garden at Wentworlh [House, the property of the Earl Fitzwilliam 

 family, and the place of residence of one or other member of it], and is one of the most zealous 

 and successful cultivators of rare plants in this kingdom, and has, with unremitting exertion, 

 brought together the fine collection of plants now at Wentworth, by a liberal system of exchang- 

 ing his superfluities for those of other persons. — Herbert.) 6. 1. Sp. 2. 



[O .'p.I Eot. reg. 1835. 

 *Drumm6nd2 Herb. Drummond's {f ^ or lA) cu J ?su WR Texas in Mexico ?1835 



[? p.l Bot. reg. 1. 1835, in the text 

 *chloros61en i/erJ. green-tubed tf _AJ or lA) cu ?i WG ... Texas in Mexico ? 1835 O 



A bulbous genus, nearly allied to the genus Zephyranthes. 



Drummondz. The bulb, by the figure, of about the size of 

 a large acorn, and of similar form. Leaves 12 in, to 13 in. long, 

 and the 12th of an inch broad, channeled, twisted, glabrous, 

 green, reddish near the bulb ; protruded in autumn. Scape 

 4^ in. long, bearing a spathe out of which emanates a flower ihat 

 has a tube 4f in. long, slender, terminated by a limb flatly ex- 

 panded, and 1| in. across, and formed of six segments that are 

 white within, lineated with red at the back ; and the tube is ex- 

 ternally red. " This plant is at once distinguished from all the 

 known genera of the order to which it belongs, by anthers sessile 

 on the mouth of the tube, so that the filaments are consolidated 

 with it, and decurrent in its texture." The tube is striated from 

 the decurrence of the filaments. " Discovered in the province 

 of Texas in North America, by poor Drummond." It has flow- 

 ered in the Botanic Garden at Wentworth House, that of Edin- 

 burgh, and at Mr. Dickson's nursery. 



At Wentworth, two 1-flowered scapes were successively pro- 

 duced, and, on the first, ripe seeds, that have readily vegetated. 

 It is possible that it may endure our climate, as the frosts are 

 severe in Texas. 



Chlorosolen. Leaves nearly 18 in. long, an eighth of an inch 

 broad, twisted, green. Tube of the flower, 4^ in. long, green ; 

 limb 1^ in. across, white, with' the segments tipped with green 

 and lineated externally with green. [Bot. Reg., Feb.) 



CCXL. OrchiddcecE. 



A prospectus of an intended work by Dr. Lindley on tropical 

 Orchidaceae, to be published by Messrs. Ridgway, has been 

 issued. It is named Sertum Orchideiim (the orchideous garland), 



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