336 On the Cultivation of Rare Plants. 



This species flowered in the collection of Godfrey 

 Wentworth, Esq. at Hickleton, many years ago before I 

 left Yorkshire. In a living flower brought to me by his gar- 

 dener, the colours were not so bright as in the figure of the 

 Exotic Botany , its lower side more curved, and the filaments 

 curved towards the lower side; but though Dr. Smith de- 

 scribes the corolla as straight, and Mr. Browjst does not 

 mention this irregularity, yet upon comparing the flower, 

 which I preserved, with specimens in Sir Joseph Banks's 

 herbarium, I can find no difference. As this species grows 

 wild plentifully near Port Jackson* it is extraordinary that it 

 has not yet been seen in the gardens about London. 



AGAVEiE. 



Doryanthes Excelsa. Correa in Linn. Trans, v. 6. p. 213. 

 t. 23. 24. 



One of the most splendid plants we have yet received from 

 New Holland. It will live in a green-house and possibly 

 in the open ground near the sea; but vegetates so slowly, 

 that 1 have recommended all my friends to give it more 

 warmth ; for, like the Agaves, it does not flower till it has 

 made a considerable number of leaves. It should have light 

 rich soil in a pot exceedingly well drained ; several young 

 plants of it having lately been rotted, by having been kept 

 too wet. 



NARCISSEiE. 



Almyra Stellaris. MSS. Pancratium Ulyricum* Ker 

 in Bot. Mag. n. 718. cum Ic. — Decand. in PL Lil n. 153. 

 cum Ic. Pancratium Stellare. Linn. Trans, v. 2. p. 74. t. 14. 

 — Linn. Sp. PL ed. %.p. 418. Pancratium Spatha, kc.Fh. 



