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south wall, where it can remain dry during summer, than 

 in a pot. As the new bulb, formed annually, rises consider- 

 ably above the old one, it should be planted deep, and a 

 sandy loam suits it best. 



Wurmbea Purpurea. Dry and. in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. 

 p. 326. Melanthium spicatum. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 694. 

 cum Ic. 



I have never been able to preserve this species under a 

 common frame : but it succeeds very well if treated like the 

 Galaxias, and on the flue of a stove will ripen seeds plenti- 

 fully. 



Bjeometr a Columellaris. MSS. Melanthium Uniflo- 

 rum. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 767. cum Ic.—Jacq. Ic. v. 2. t. 450. 

 —Collect, v. 4. p. 100. Tulipa Breyniana. Linn. Sp. PL ed.%. 

 p. 438. 



This is not a tender plant, but it will flower much more 

 luxuriantly, and ripen seeds with a little artificial heat. 



Ornithoglossum Glaucum. Par. Lond. n. 54. cum Ic. 

 Melanthium viride. Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 994. cum Ic.—Kenn. 

 in Bot. Rep. n. 233. cum Ic. Ornithoglossum viride. Brown m 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 327. 



The leaves and even flowers of this plant are of a beautiful 

 glaucous colour, not green. I suspect that it grows wild in 

 situations flooded during winter ; for a bulb, which by acci- 

 dent was planted in a large pot, and kept very moist on the 

 flue of the stove at the Dowager Lady De Clifford's, sent 

 up a stem with twenty flowers, and ripened seeds abundantly. 



Dipidax Rosea. Laws. Cat. p. 8. Melanthium junceum. 

 Ker in Bot. Mag. n. 558. cum Ic. 



This certainly grows wild in moist places at the Cape of 



