By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



48!) 



Flowers tall, large, and club-shaped ; the tube very much 

 elongated and purple for some length at its top ; the petals 

 large, long, irregularly concave, the outer ones marked at 

 bottom with a bright lilac spot, terminating upwards with 

 sharp pointed rays ; the rest of the petals a dingy white 

 or gray ; the inner petals on their outsides having the greater 

 part of the centre occupied with a broad patch of lilac, which is 

 deeply feathered at the top and sides, the edges of the petals 

 being a dingy white ; sometimes the outer petals towards the 

 top shew a stain of purple through from the inner part ; the 

 insides of all the petals are marked with purple, and feathered 

 like the outsides of the inner petals, with less colour in the 

 inner than in the outer petals. The stigmas are orange, 

 and large, elevated above the anthers. 



37. C. vermis propinquns. A variety of the preceding; 

 differs in the backs of the inner petals having the lines 

 broader, with the appearance of being blotched; in other 

 respects similar, except that the leaves are shorter. 



38. C. cernus dentosus. Approaches to C. vernus variegatus. 

 Flowers not abundantly and rather late. Leaves very nume- 

 rous, long, and spreading. The flowers are large, and some- 

 what obovate ; tube purple, which colour runs into the spots 

 on the petals; the petals broad, obtuse, concave; the outer 

 ones marked with purple spots, the tops terminated by short 

 points, the remainder being gray ; the inside of the outer petals 

 beautifully feathered with purple on white ground ; the inner 

 petals with fine featherings running from the spots towards the 

 edges of the petals, but not reaching the margins, being wider 

 at top, with the margin white ; the inside of the inner petals 



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