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Delagoa Bay by Mr. John Forbes, whose untimely end we 

 have lately had to lament. Some of the plants produced 

 above thirty flowers of the most delicate pink colour. It 

 is the handsomest of the genus with which I am acquainted, 

 and in every respect a valuable addition to our collections. 

 It has been named after its discoverer, whose zeal in the 

 pursuit of science, talents, amiable disposition, and unhappy 

 fate, call for every testimony of respect ; all, alas ! which now 

 remains to be offered to his memory. The species is nearly 

 related to A. longifolia, and may be thus defined: 



A, Forbesii ; umbella multiflora (30 — 40), foliis angustis 

 canaliculatis debilibus glaucis ciliatis, tubo limbi campanulati 

 longitudine. 



The bulbs appear to flower freely, they are kept in the 

 stove, but no seed has yet been obtained from them. 



XLII. Amaryllis Cyrtanthoides. Sims. 

 A very beautiful bulbous plant, communicated by Mr. 

 Place, with his other Chilian collections. The specimen 

 which was produced was evidently imperfect, and the figure 

 taken from it in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 2399, conse- 

 quently represents the flower more distorted than it really 

 was. It is a plant of delicate habit, growing in the stove, 

 producing leaves very sparingly, and flowers still more 

 rarely. The latter are of a brilliant scarlet, and their seg- 

 ments are rolled together into a tube, as in A. ignea, which 

 comes from the same country. One would have thought 

 this difference sufficient to have justified the formation of 

 the plant into a distinct genus, but it is in all other respects 

 so like A. advena, that no judicious botanist can do other- 

 wise than pause before he decides upon their separation. 



