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Philodendron sp. — Unascertained, below the summit on the Rua 

 u Uniao y Indus tria." 



Philodendron sp. (perhaps unrecorded).— Growing intertwined with 

 Hippeas trum procerum on the summits and rocky ledges of the moun- 

 tains. The leaves are simple, and the flower-spathes green, with red 

 bases. A rambling Aroid, mostly running along the ground. I have this 

 in cultivation. 



Nothoscordum fragrans, Kunth. — A white Allium. This also must 

 have a wide range, as I have gathered it wild in Grand Canary. 



Amaeyllids. 



Hippeastram procerum (E). — Apparently limited in habitat to the 

 upper portions of a few mountains above the Facienda Inglez, but gre- 

 garious there. Altitude 4,000 feet. 



Hippeastrum correiensis. (E) (Bury, 'Hexand.' 9). — Grows with H. 

 procerum. This is the H. Begince of some Brazilian authors. 



Crinum (sp.) — Unascertained ; in gardens only. 



Crinum amabile (?). — In gardens only. 



Hymenocalhs (sp. 1). — Unascertained; in gardens only. 



Hymenocallis (sp. 2). — A dwarf kind, unascertained ; in gardens only. 



Alstrcemeria inodora var. nemorosa (Gardn.). — Petropolis, on the 

 banks of the levadas on the outskirts of the town. Flowering in 

 February. Growing amid other herbage. I could not find any infertile 

 (leaf) stems, although such may have grown at some other period of the 

 year. 



Flowering steins. — Wiry, 2 feet (or less) high, bearing a few irregu- 

 larly disposed leaves, 2 inches long by J inch wide, on distinct, spirally- 

 twisted pedicels. 



Flowers in simple umbels of 8 (or rarely 9), surrounded by about a 

 dozen foliose bracts. Each flower semi-patent on pedicels about an inch 

 long, the upper segment and the lower- wing segments the widest (H 

 inch long by less than \ inch wide), the upper-wing segments narrower 

 (H inch long by less than \ inch wide), the lowest segment the shortest 

 (over an inch long by less than } inch wide). Span an inch to 1J inch. 

 Colour crimson, externally tipped green ; internally striated and marked 

 with brown, red, &c. ; the apices of the upper-wing segment and of the 

 lowest segment showing more green internally than the other segments 

 show. Inodorous. 



Filaments. — 1J inch long. Anthers yellow, pollen green. 



Style. — Generally slightly exserted, stigma deeply trifid. 



Fruit. — Immature. 



Ovules. — About 8 in. each cell, superposed. 



Notes. — I did not find this cultivated anywhere, and, indeed, it is not 

 worth cultivating, yet I found several flowers semi-double. 



The filaments were not attached to the base of the segments, but were 

 quite independent. The nearest ally cultivated in Europe is probably 

 A. pulchella (psittacina), which has fewer flowers. 



Alstrcemeria (sp.).— In the forests at altitudes of 4,000 feet. This 

 species was distinct from the above, but of no horticultural merit. 



