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XXXII. Uropetalon longifolium. Lindley. 



U. foliis lineari-Hgulatis acuminatis debilibus, racemo laxo paucifloro, floribus 

 cernuis, sepalis obtusis. Bot. Register, fol 974. 



Upon examining a collection of dried plants formed for the 

 Society by Mr. Forbes, and received after his death, in 

 1824, there were observed in a bundle believed to be the 

 produce of Mafmale, a small island off the coast of Mozam- 

 bique, a few bulbs, which did not seem to have entirely 

 lost their vitality, although they must have been packed 

 among the specimens at least a twelvemonth previously. The 

 foliage and flowers adhering to these bulbs shewing them to be 

 a new species of Uropetalon, they were transferred from the 

 Herbarium to a Stove, in wtrich they flowered in August, 1825. 

 The flowers proved to be of a dull bluish-green, appearing 

 sparingly in a long simple raceme ; the leaves were long, nar- 

 row, and quite flaccid. The plant did not therefore exhibit 

 any pretensions to beauty, but it forms an interesting addition 

 to the genus, which at present consists of only a few species. 



Requires the heat of the stove, where it grows freely, in 

 any light sandy soil, producing offsets rather plentifully. A 

 figure of the species has been published in the Botanical 

 Register, tab. 974. 



XXXIII. Phycella corusca. 



P. umbella patente multiflora, sepalis aequalibus apice patentibus obtusis, 

 staminibus sterilibus subulatis. 



A bulb which was collected by Mr. James M c Rae about 

 Coquimbo, and sent home by him in June 1825, flowered in 

 the stove in September of the same year, and appeared to 

 be so similar to the figure in the Botanical Register, tab. 809, 



