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allied to Carinata. The insertion of the filaments 
into the anthers should be examined; and it should 
be observed whether the spathe is absolutely divided 
to the base. This beautiful little plant flowers in 
January, in cold gravelly situations, on the Andes 
of Antuco in S. Chili, especially on Pico del Pilque, 
and, if we could obtain it, would probably thrive 
in our climate. 
It may be observed that no Habranthus has been yet 
found with the leaf more than -|ths of an inch wide ; nor 
any Phycella much exceeding half an inch, except Chlo- 
racra (the Haemanthus dubius of Humboldt), which may 
possibly prove to be a genus by itself; and that no Hippeas- 
trum has been discovered with the leaf near so narrow. 
This is not a very fit circumstance to be set down in a generic 
character, but it is an important confirmatory observation, 
and valuable as a guide in the discrimination of unknown 
plants of this family, especially in an order of which many 
genera as Brunsvigia, Eurycles, Stenomesson, and others, \ 
may be recognized by the leaf. Concerning some of the 
Habranthi my information is defective, but fourteen are 
ascertained to have the faucial annular membrane, and the 
absence of it has not been observed in any one. In Hippeas- 
trum it is never annular, but confined to the upper region ; \ 
in Zephyranthes, when the membrane is at all manifested, 1 
it is nearly obsolete ; in Phycella its exhibition is properly 
setiform, and the departures from that form require to be 
carefully examined, which I have had no opportunity of 
doing. Dr. Lindley noted down the membrane in Phycella 
Herbertiana to be annular, but it may, perhaps, not have 
been precisely the same structure that I call annular in Ha- 
branthus. The flower of Habranthus rises after the dry 
season of rest, and is followed by the leaves, which endure 
through the winter; Phycella flowers after the complete pro- 
duction of the leaves, and rests after flowering ; Zephy- 
ranthes rests in the winter and flowers with or after the rise 
of the leaves, the flower expanding in the sun ; Argyropsis 
has the leaves perennial and the flower autumnal ; Cooperia 
ippears to flower from the earliest spring till the autumn, 
the flower being at its prime in the first night of its expan- 
sion. The Habranthi in general are pretty hardy, but as 
their leaf should be in perfection in the winter, it must be 
liable to injury from frost if not protected in some manner; 
