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species of Zephyrantlies which I had sent to him had mul- 
tiplied prodigiously in the East Indies, as well as the Hippe- 
astra, the former being a substitute for our crocuses, the latter 
for our tulips, in a tropical garden ; and he was earnest in his 
application for every species of Zephyranthes. 
There is a little mystery in the expansion of Candida. I 
have seen it open quite flat in warm sunshine, but I have, 
nevertheless, in very cold gloomy weather with a north 
wind, seen its flowers standing at 3-4ths expansion at night, 
and a few days after, when the wind was south-west and 
warmer the flowers were not near so open even in the day ; 
as if its expansion depended on the dryness of the at- 
mosphere. 
36. CooPERfA. — Germen erect; tube erect, long, slender, 
cylindrical, widened at the mouth ; limb in its prime 
stellate; filaments inserted at the mouth, nearly equal, 
erect ; anthers erect, affixed at one-third from the 
base, not versatile, fasciculate ; style erect. (Stigma 
three-lobed, fimbriated, viscous ; lobes furrowed, ob- 
tuse ; leaves linear, tortuous ; scape one-flowered ; 
spathe one-valved.) 
1. Drummondiana. — PI. 24. f. 2. 5 — 11. PI. 41. f. 16. 
Drummondi, Bot. Reg. 22. 1835. ^Tar. 2. — Cldo- 
rosolen. — PI. 24. f. 1. Bot. Mag. 63. >2482. 
Leaves 1-1 2th to l-8th wide, 12-18 inches long, 
tortuous, green, tending to glaucous; scape 4-13 
inches ; spathe about 1J, slit or looped at the end ; 
tube inches, greenish, often fading red ; limb 
1|- long, white, acquiring often six broad red 
stripes on the back in fading ; sepals tipped on 
the back with green : style sometimes shorter than 
the tube, sometimes exceeding the stamens ; fila- 
ments free, about £ of an inch ; flower expanding 
in the evening, sometimes beginning to close a 
little in the morning, sometimes lasting four days 
before it withers. 
This plant is so variable, that three bulbs sent by Drum- 
mond separately, and perhaps from different localities, flow- 
ered at Spofforth, one with the style shorter than the tube, 
one longer, but shorter than the stamens, and the third 
longer than the stamens ; the difference of stature and colour 
was also considerable, but the first of the three bulbs having 
