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the perianth or stamens had assumed their proper 
attitude. No memorandum exists concerning the 
plant, which flowered at Kew at a period when 
Chilian bulbs were certainly not likely to find their 
way there. If it be one of Masson’s bulbs from 
the west coast of Southern Africa, it must belong 
to a genus entirely unknown to us; for if the draw- 
ing exhibits a correct representation of the inflo- 
rescence in its perfect state, it agrees with no genus 
yet described. It wants the tube that should con- 
nect it through Vallota with the Cyrtanthiform 
race, and has no affinity to any other African 
bulb. 
15. Gracilifolius. — Bot. Mag. 51. 2464. From Mal- 
donado. Bulb small, leaves very slender, a foot 
and half long, nearly cylindrical, with a deep 
channel on the upper surface ; scapes successive, 
seven or eight inches high ; spathe green, tubular, 
slit at the point ; flowers 1-2, 1 inch and long, 
tube green with a thick green annular membrane, 
limb pale purple, closing at night, and expanding 
widest in the sun, stigma trifid. Flowers freely in 
September after three or four months’ rest. Gra- 
cilifolius and Andersonianus expand in the sun, 
but with the flower declined and the lower petal 
protruded, not patent like Zephyrantlies. 
Var. 2. Boothianus. — Tab. pict.'et descr. W. B. Booth. 
Spatha pedunculo et genuine erubescentibus, ger- 
mine et pedunculo magis elongatis, filamentorum 
quaterna discrepantia obsoletiore, stigmate majore. 
In specimine scapus 1-florus. Ex Maldonado. 
This plant, which has flowered at SirC. Lemon’s, is only 
distinguishable from Gracilifolius, which grows in the same 
vicinity, by a rather longer gcrmen and peduncle, a red 
tinge on the germen, peduncle, and spathe, and the diversity 
of the filaments being less marked, but they are not exactly 
of two lengths in the specimen. The flower seems also a 
little more declined, and rosier. The specimen was 1 -flow- 
ered ; whether it will be found to be always so I know not ; 
but I think it not improbable, as the plant is evidently, from 
the near equality of its filaments, the intermediate point 
of transition from the two-flowered to the one-flowered 
