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probably be found in St. Domingo. The leaves of 
Rosea are more numerous, so that bifolia would not 
do for the chief name. 
10. Commersoniana. — PI. 29. f. 3. Specim. Commer- 
son. ex Monte Video. Herb. Linn. Soc. Am. Ata- 
masco minor. Red. Lil. 454. Foliis angustis line- 
aribus, scapo debili, spatha pedunculo longiore, 
perianthio circiter pollicari roseo. Leaves narrow, 
scape slender, spathe longer than the peduncle, 
perianth about an inch long, rose-coloured. The 
native country of Redoute’s plant is not known ; it 
agrees with Commerson’s specimen from Monte 
Video, and is sufficiently distinct from Atamasco, 
which is a native of North America. I understand 
that the plant is lost at Paris ; it has never been in 
this country. 
1 1 . Lindleyana.' — PI. 35. f. 5. Grandiflora, Bot. Reg. 
11. 902. quoad folia et semina, non quoad florem. 
Am. minuta? H. and B. Nov. gen. 1.278. Kunth 
Syn. 1. 285. Bulbo parvulo, foliis linearibus, pe- 
dunculo semunciali, germine |, tubo viridi J unc. 
limbo pallide roseo, unc. aculeis sub lente sex 
minutissimis ad basin petalorum. This plant, a 
native of Mexico, is distinguished by its smaller 
size, pedunculated germen, and pale rose-coloured 
flowers, from Verecunda, which it otherwise closely 
resembles. It is the plant of which the leaves are 
represented and the seed described under the name 
Grandiflora, in consequence of the flower of Cari- 
nata having appeared before the leaves on its first 
importation, and the leaves added to the drawing 
at a later period from a bulb of this species by a 
mistake of the gardener. My plants of Lindleyana 
are from an offset taken by Dr. Lindley’s hand 
from the plant of which he described the leaf and 
seed. If a pot of these bulbs, after remaining dry 
in the greenhouse all winter, be placed on a warm 
flue and watered in May, the flower buds will ap- 
pear in a few hours. I believe this to be Hum- 
boldt’s minuta, but it cannot be identified with 
certainty, and the smaller species since discovered 
make the name not desirable. 
