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petaline shortened; faucial membrane annular fim- 
briated. In the Bot. Reg. the words internis and 
externis, relating to the filaments, are transposed 
by a lapse. 
Var. 2. Gillesianus. — PI. 23. f. 1. Specim. ex Melo- 
coton. Dr. Gillies. Herb. Hooker. “ Perianth yel- 
lowish with a tinge of red, deeply divided, segments 
ovate-lanceolate with a point, inch long, at the 
base attenuated and greenish ; filaments yellowish, 
fimbriated membrane at their insertion ; anthers 
green before inversion ; bulb size of a pigeon’s 
egg, black. Found in gravelly soil near Meloco- 
ton.” Gillies. The peduncles do not exceed an inch, 
the spathe two inches ; leaves four, a foot long, only 
wide ; flowers much paler than in Bagnoldianus, 
sulphureous ; but it is certainly to be called a 
variety of that plant. It will be observed that both 
these plants have the glaucous leaf and fimbriated 
membrane of the Hesperian family, from which 
they are separated by the more decided prolonga- 
tion of the upper and abbreviation of the lower 
filament, the appearance of the bulb, and harder 
foliage. They are natives also of the same coast as 
Hesperius. I lost Bagnoldianus by planting it in 
a peaty compost, not being then aware that it grew 
in dry gravel, and I understand that it has rotted 
in most, collections. A most singular lusus occurs 
in a specimen of that plant in Sir W. Hooker’s 
herbarium, of which one of the peduncles is com- 
pound, bearing two flowers and a bracte, like one 
of the valves of the spathe, at the fork. 
§. 2. Subbiflorae. — One or two flowered. 
13. Roseus. — Sweet. Brit. fl. g. ser. 2. 107. Leaves 
glaucous ; flowers two, rose-coloured, green at the 
base, expanding wide ; filaments conspicuously of 
four lengths. Faucial membrane not recorded. 
From the island of Chiloe. 
14. Chilensis. — Am. Chilensis. L'Heritier S. A. p. 11. 
(excluso Feuillet cit.) non Ruiz Flor. Per. — Poeppig 
Frag. syn. 5. — Am. lutea. Specim. Ruiz. Herb. 
Lamb. Zephyranthes lutea. Herb. App. — Am. 
ochroleuca? Ker. Bauer tab. pict. Bibl. Banks, 
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