Uefugium Botanicum.] 
[March, 1871. 
TAB. 264. 
Natural Order Amaryllidace^. 
Tribe Pancratie^. 
Genus Eltsena (Herbert, Amaryll. p. 201). Perianthium superum 
corolliimm ovario obloiigo, tubo supra ovarium subnuUo, limbo 
rotato segmentis linearibus sequalibus. Corona faucialis magna 
campanulata horizontaliter compressa ad oram staminifera, inter 
filamentorum insertionem distincte dentata. Stamina 6, filamentis 
elongatis filiformibus leviter incurvis, antheris lineai'ibus versatili- 
bus. Ovarium inferum, triloculare, ovu:is in loculo binis vel 
pkiribus ; stylus filiformis, periantbio subaequans ; stigma puncti- 
forme. Capsulam non vidi. Herbse bulbos?e peruvianas foliis dis- 
ticbis loratis floribus paucis umbellatis speciosis albis. 
E. LONGiPETALA (Herbert, Bot. Beg. 24, Misc. p. 79). Foliis 6 — 8 dis- 
tichis loratis sesquipedalibus, scapi tertio inferiore amplectantibus, 
scapo ancipiti tripedali, umbellis 4 — 6-floris, spatbae valvis 5 — 6 
inaequalibus scariosis, pedicellis crassis perbrevibus, ovarii loculis 
biovulatis, limbi triuncialis segmentis linearibus undulatis apice 
recurvis, corona abrupte deflexa staminibus leviter incurvis sub- 
duplo breviore ad oram inter fdamentorum insertionem distincte 
tridentata. — Bot. Mag. t. 3873 ; Kunth, Enwn. v. 657. 
A native of Peru ; the specimen figured sent by Mr. Farris. 
Bulb large, roundish, brown-tunicated. Leaves distichous, 
covering the lower third of the scape, three to four on a side, 
erecto-arcuate, lorate, eighteen to twenty inches long from where 
they leave the scape, two inches broad at the middle, moderately 
firm in texture, green on both sides, paler below, quite glabrous, 
veins immersed, the point narrowed suddenly. Scape two and a 
half to three feet high, strong, erect, distinctly two-edged. 
Floivers four to six in an umbel ; spatlie of several scariose linear 
and lanceolate valves an inch and a half to two inches long ; 
pedicels very short and thick, barely distinguishable from the 
ovary. Ovary five-eighths of an inch deep, three-eighths of an 
inch thick, green. Divisions of the limb rotate, white, linear, 
three inches long, three lines broad at the base, the edge undu- 
lated, the point recurved. Corona fifteen lines deep, deflexed so 
as to be placed nearly at a right angle with the ovary, hori- 
zontally compressed, furnished with three distinct teeth between 
