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much greater vigour than in any black soil, in the neighbour- 
hood of the New Forest, which would perhaps suit the 
Cyrtanthi. In a soil of that nature all Mr. Woodford’s 
Eric® were cultivated at Rickmansworth. The earth of 
Mitcham common was so congenial to the Ixias that in it 
I have had 72 flowers from one bulb of Ixia longiflora, and 
nearly as many from one of Sparaxis grandiflora, whereas 
the confluent soils of this neighbourhood, though favourable 
to the hardier Gladioli, destroy the Ixias and Babianas and 
are not favourable to Sparaxis. 
29. Gastronema. — Germen declined ; tube below slender, 
curved above, wide-campanulate ; limb short, reflex; 
filaments decurrent, conniving; three upper longer, 
incurved ; the petaline inserted at the top, the 
sepaline near the middle, of the tube ; anthers short ; 
style declined, pressed against the lowest petal. 
1. Clavatum. — Bot. Mag. 49. 2291. Cyrtanthus uni- 
dorus. Bot. Reg. 2. 168. Amaryllis clavata. 
L’Heritier. Sert. Angl. Amaryllis pumilio. Hort. 
Kew. Am. tubiflora. Specim. Herb. Soc. Linn, 
et Herb. Banks, et MS. Bibl. Mus. Brit. — Flowers 
1 or 2, white striped with red ; leaves slender, 
attenuated below, dark green. 
This very pretty little bulb, which is nearly akin to Cyr- 
tanthus, but presents strong points of difference, appears to 
have been first described by L’Heritier under the name A. 
clavata. The name clavatum has therefore priority over 
pumilio and uniflorum, which last is incorrect as it often 
bears a two-dowered scape, of which there are three or four 
specimens in Dr. Burchell’s herbarium, and he assures me 
that lie found it with one or two dowers promiscuously in 
Africa. Mr. Ker having conceived that Amaryllis pumilio 
Hort. Kew. was a different plant and of a different genus, 
and that there existed a specimen of it in the Banksian 
herbarium, I have carefully inspected the Banks, herb, and 
MSS. with the kind assistance of Mr. Bennet, and the result 
is decisive that A. pumilio Hort. Kew. is G. clavatum, and 
the specimen marked A. pumilio in the herbarium Oporan- 
thus luteus. In the herbarium of the Linnaean Society there 
is a specimen of G. clavatum marked Amaryllis tubidora, 
with a reference to a MS. in the Banks, libr. In the Banks, 
herb, is a like specimen marked A. tubidora by Dr. Solander, 
