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Report upon New or Rare Plants, fyc. 



BULBOUS PLANTS. 

 XXIX. Brodiaea Ixioides. Sims. 



B. coronas foliolis subulatis. Bot. Mag. 2382. 



Roots of this curious species were received in 1825 from Dr. 

 John Gillies, a valuable correspondent of the Society, resi- 

 dent at Mendoza, in South America, and flowered in May, a few- 

 weeks after their arrival. Bulbs round, small, with a light brown 

 skin. Leaves weak, linear, lying on the ground, sub-glaucous, 

 smooth, shining, a span long. Stem very slender, erect, round, 

 somewhat glaucous, about a foot high or a little more. Spatha 

 of two membranous subulate bracteae, the length of the pe- 

 duncle. Flowers two or three. Peduncles an inch long, round. 

 Corolla funnel-shaped, light ultramarine blue, with a greenish 

 tube, and a six-parted spreading limb, about an inch across, 

 of which the segments are frequently laciniated irregularly ; 

 the inner series being the narrowest. Stamens three, small, 

 in the middle of the tube. Processes three, fleshy, round, 

 fusiform, inserted at the summit of the tube opposite to the 

 inner laciniae, and white. 



A figure of this has been published in the Botanical Maga- 

 zine, fol. 2382 ; but it is uncharacteristic. The plant will 

 thrive very well in a cool frame out of the reach of frost, but 

 the attempts which have hitherto been made to establish it in 

 the open border have all failed. 



XXX. Gilliesia graminea. Lindley. 

 A full description, with a figure, having been published 

 of this plant in the Botanical Register, tab. 992, it is not 



