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latitudes. The discovery by Drummond of the Chilian 
Allium Cowani and Bonarian Habranthus Andersonianus in 
Texas, renders it less improbable that Hipp. acuminatum 
should be a native of Mexican Oaxaca as well as of Brazil. 
33. Piiycella. — Perianth with segments regular, convo- 
lute ; filaments alternately equal, inserted alike at 
the mouth of the tube, decurrent, straight, recurved 
at the point; anthers short; incumbent, versatile; 
style sloping downwards. (Observ. Bulb ovate , 
black; leaves linear, lorate; umbel unequally pedun- 
culated; flower declined ; stigma simple, dilated, fim- 
briated at the end; fiaucial membrane not defective 
on the lower side, as in Hippeastrum ; properly seti- 
form or subulate, but its diversities are not sufficiently 
ascertained.) 
1. Ignea. — Leaves tipped with red; peduncles long; 
perianth yellow below, scarlet upwards ; two awl- 
shaped processes at the foot of each sepaline fila- 
ment ; style longer than the filaments, filaments 
than the perianth ; perianth about 2i inches long. 
Var. 1. Corusca. — Lindl. Trans. Hort. Soc. 7. 1. 74. 
Am. ignea, Bot. Reg. 10. 809. Style much longer 
than the filaments, which are white. According to 
Professor Lindley, the processes are one- third the 
length of the filaments ; but I cannot help suspect- 
ing an error in his memorandum, for I have met 
with no process of such dimensions in the genus. 
Found in sandy soil by Poeppig near Concon in 
N. Chili. 
Var. 2. Glauca. — Bot. Mag. 53. 2687. Leaves glau- 
cous ; style scarcely longer than the filaments ; 
filaments red ; processes very minute. 
2. Cyrtanthoeides. — Bot. Mag. 50. 2399. Leaves green; 
peduncles very short ; perianth greenish yellow at 
the base, the rest red ; petaline filaments quarter 
of an inch longer than the others, quarter shorter 
than the style ; all red. The inside of the flower 
was not examined by Dr. Sims, whose specimen 
was evidently diseased. Professor Poeppig recog- 
nised this plant, as distinct from ignea, on the sandy 
maritime hills near Concon in N. Chili, but he 
gives no particulars ; and he did not favour me 
