By Mr. John Lindley. 



necessary to offer many observations upon it in this place, as 

 from its want of beauty it is out of the pale of Horticulture, 

 and can be considered only as a Botanical curiosity. The roots 

 were collected about Valparaiso by Mr. James M c Rae, while 

 touching at that port on his voyage to the Sandwich Islands. 

 They were found by him in a withered state in February 

 1825, were received at the Garden in the latter end of July 

 of the same year, and flowered for the first and only time in 

 the September following. The genus was named in honour 

 of the gentleman mentioned under the foregoing head. 



An obscure little bulbous plant with narrow linear flaccid 

 leaves, and a weak round stem. The flowers are green in 

 loose umbels of about five flowers. 



XXXI. Griffinia hyacinthina. R. Brown. 



G. foliis oblongis breviter petiolatis, umbella 9-10-flora, sepalis oblongo-lan- 



ceolatis acuminatis undulatis, spatha tubi longitudine. 



A few roots of this beautiful Lily having been collected by 

 the late Mr. John Forbes while at Rio in 1823, several 

 individuals of them have since that time produced their 

 flowers. They differed in no respect from the originals im- 

 ported in 1815, by Mr. Griffin, and the circumstance of 

 their having flowered in the Garden of the Society is noticed 

 here chiefly for the sake of stating that none of them indi- 

 cated any disposition to vary, or to approach in form or 

 habit either of the other two species of Griffinia now known. 

 They thrive well and flower freely in October and November, 

 if kept in the constant heat of the stove and planted in light 

 rich sandy loam. 



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