By Mr. John Lindley. 



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plants indiscriminately collected, and because, although it 

 is cultivated in the gardens of Peru, the authors of the Flora 

 Peruviana expressly state their plant to be commonly wild 

 in the provinces of Chancay, Cercado, and Iluanuco. The 

 Peruvian women entwine the flowers, which are very fragrant, 

 in their hair. The Society was indebted for this and many 

 other curious Peruvian and Chilian plants to the late James 

 Cowan, Esq. whose attention in promoting the interests of 

 the Society in those countries was unremitting. His prema- 

 ture death on his way home, left us to regret the loss of a 

 most valued correspondent. 



XL. Pancratium patens. Redoute. 



Bulbs of this plant were collected by Mr. George Don, 

 in the island of Grand Cayman, and brought in the Pheasant 

 to the Society in 1823. Before they flowered the plants were 

 seen by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. William Herbert, who 

 thought they might be his P. (Hymenocallis) crassifolium, a 

 species only known by a brief description in his Appendix to 

 the Botanical Magazine. Upon such authority bulbs of this 

 species were sent to several friends of the Society, as the P. 

 crassifolium. I am, however, informed by Mr. Herbert, 

 that his is a different plant. I therefore avail myself of the 

 earliest opportunity of noticing the mistake, in the hope 

 that this may catch the eye of those to whom this plant 

 may have been sent as P. crassifolium. Upon flowering it 

 proved to be P. patens of Redoute, which possibly is 

 merely a variety of P. Caribceum. 



XLI. Amaryllis Forbesii. 



Many fine bulbs, some of them nearly as large as a man's 

 head, of this new species of Amaryllis, were sent from 



