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produced, in the space of six months, five successive scapes, 
has itself exhibited successively all the diversities which were 
at first supposed to distinguish the three bulbs, and it is vain 
to separate them. The flower always expands in the even- 
ing, and is not usually seen in its perfect state after the first 
night, the perianth becoming less stellate and the margins of 
the segments curled, but it endures for three or four days in 
that state. The bulb figured in the Bot. Reg. having pro- 
duced a scape in August, when the weather was very fine 
and hot, was placed out of doors in the full sun. It ex- 
panded as usual in the evening, and in its prime the limb 
was pure white ; the next morning it had become less stel- 
late, and it lasted so four days, at the end of which, as it 
began to wither, the tube became red, and a deep broad red 
stripe appeared on the back of each segment, widest on the 
sepals. The nocturnal flowering of this plant is an anomaly 
in the order, and the more remarkable, because its nearest 
kin, Zephyranthes, requires a powerful sun to make it ex- 
pand. The flower is fragrant, smelling somewhat like a 
primrose. I have the bulbs in a sandy compost, which 
clearly suits them. They do not seem impatient of either 
heat or cold, but like a free supply of water; as soon as the 
seed on one scape is ripe, another seems ready to rise. The 
flower has no irritability, and does not seem affected by the 
presence or absence of sun after it has once expanded. A 
single flower is not very conspicuous, but in a tuft they 
would be very ornamental. Severe frosts occur in Texas, and 
it may perhaps prove hardy; but its habit appears to be to 
flower successively from the earliest spring till September, 
the leaves growing principally late in the autumn, and in 
the winter if protected. 
2. Pedunculata. — PI. 42. f. 3, 4, 5. Seeptranthes Drum- 
mondi. Graham. Edin. phil. Jour. 40. 413. 1836. 
Zephyranthes Drummondi. Don. Sweet, Brit. fl. g. 
ser. 2. 328. Nocte patens, fragrans ; bulbo de- 
presso, foliis glaucis subsesquipedalibus i unc. latis 
subobtusis, scapo superne attenuato unifloro, spatha 
If, apice semunc. bifida, pedunculo f-1 unciali, 
perianthio 2f-2j unciali albo, limbo 1 a vel ultra, 
antheras unciam superante, tubo 1-1 a unc. antheris 
k uncialibus, petalinis sepalina vix quarta parte 
superantibus, stylo f unciali erecto, stigmate sub- 
erecto inc.luso. Bulb black, flattened at top, about 
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