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tions very distinct ; upper sepaline and lower peta- 
line filaments abridged ; stigma trifid. This plant 
increases fast by seed and offsets. The bulbs are 
killed by frost, if left through the winter in the 
open ground in England without protection. They 
will grow freely if kept dry in the winter, and 
planted out in the spring ; but they should pre- 
serve their leaves through the winter, and be kept 
dry and hot in the spring or early summer to pro- 
mote their flowering, which under that treatment 
is abundant. Mr. Ker was too hasty in identifying 
a Jamaica plant with Commerson’s Am. tubispatha 
from Buenos Ayres. I think there can be little 
doubt that this Habranthus, which equally agrees 
with L’Heritier’s imperfect description and is a 
native of Buenos Ayres, must be the true plant, and 
strictly I ought to restore the name ; but the rule 
concerning priority of names was established for 
public convenience to avoid confusion, and, as the 
name tubispatha has now been generally applied to 
a tropical Zephyranthes, it would be inconvenient 
to make a change, and it is quite sufficient to point 
out the fact. 
19. Pumilus. — Lodd. Bot. Cab. 1771. Leaves narrow, 
scape short, flower patent, cernuous, rose-coloured ; 
faucial membrane and filaments not observed. 
From Chili. I have never seen Sweet’s 2-flowered 
Hab. roseus, and am not sure of its diversity from 
this plant, of which I have not seen the flower. 
20. Maculatus. — L’Herit. S. A. 10. Scape speckled 
with red lines ; spathe 2-valved linear, flower pe- 
dunculated, filaments and style declined ; perianth 
campanulate. From a specimen brought from 
Chili by Dombey. Colour not known. The de- 
scription of this plant is much too vague to admit 
of its ever being identified with any certainty. 
The name should be attached to the first Chilian 
Habranthus with a speckled scape that shall be 
discovered. 
21. Andersonianus. — Bot. Reg. 16. 1345. Lodd. B. 
Cab. 1677. — Sweet Br. fl. g. ser. 2. Leaves narrow, 
linear, acute, green or subglaucous ; spathe tubular. 
