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AMARYLLIDACEvE. 
yellowish white. Anthers almost sessile, three just 
within the tube, three 3-8ths of an inch below it. 
Native specimens 2-3-flowered. Found at the 
mountain station between Zwellendam and George 
by Dr. Burchell. 1 regret that by an accidental 
omission I have not mentioned Dr. Burchell’s name 
amongst the gentlemen to whom I am indebted. 
To him I owe much for the inspection of his herba- 
rium and drawings, as well as the kind commu- 
nication of some of the bulbs he imported. 
Cyrtanthus obliquus appeared to differ so much from the 
rest in the structure of the flower, that I was formerly in- 
duced to think it generically distinct, and adopted Mr. Salis- 
bury’s MS. name Monella for the other species then known. 
Soon after, I saw reason to doubt the propriety of the sepa- 
ration, and to believe that this genus admits greater varia- 
tion of structure than most others in the same order ; and 
that, as the filaments are decurrent, it is not essential whe- 
ther the union with the tube is continued a little further or 
not in different species. In Vallota purpurea, of which the 
filaments are only adnate, there is a difference sometimes as 
to the point of adherence in different flowers of the same 
umbel. The subsequent appearance of C. Carneus with 
persistent leaves scarcely distinguishable from those of obli- 
quus, and flowers more like pallidus, confirmed me in consi- 
dering the plants with deciduous leaves to have been impro- 
perly detached. The diversities consist in the tube being a 
little ventricose in some species, the angular ribs and chan- 
nels which mark that of obliquus, the more or less prolonged 
adhesion of the filaments to its sides, and the curved or more 
erect habit of the peduncle. 
They are altogether plants of difficult culture, the bulbs 
being more disposed to dwindle and rot, than to increase in 
bulk. Mr. Griffin was, I think, more successful than most 
others in the cultivation of C. obliquus, of which he had 
m my strong bulbs on a shelf very near the glass in his stove, 
where the heat was never great. A common greenhouse is 
usually too damp for it in winter, and the air of a hot stove 
too confined. A light soil which is not retentive of water 
will be found to suit the whole genus ; and I think that the 
use of peat will always be dangerous to them. Those with 
persistent leaves should be cautiously watered in winter, the 
deciduous species not at all. C. Carneus is one of the most 
