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shaped below, semipatent upwards ; filaments of 
alternate length, conniving, inserted in the seg- 
ments of the limb, the sepaline at their base, the 
petaline higher ; anthers incumbent, versatile, at- 
tached in the middle; style erect; stigma deeply trifid, 
erect, with recurved points, concealed in the tube ; 
capsule protruded on a short peduncle, round, 3-fur- 
rowed, 3-valved ; seeds with a rounded back. 
1. Pusilla. — Bot. Reg. 16. 1371. — Sternebergia Ame- 
ricana. Hoffmansegg. verz. pfl. p 197. cum fig. 
Berl. 1824. — Var. 2. Rubella. — Hoffmansegg, ib. 
Variety with pink flowers. — Bulb small, leaves 
hiemal, very narrow ; flower autumnal after a sea- 
son of drought, tube an inch, limb an inch and 
white tending to straw-coloured, stained with 
purple without ; style white. Hoffmansegg states 
that the plant is abundant at Maldonado, and that 
it is found red as well as straw-coloured. The 
flower has some affinity to the European Sterne- 
bergia, but it belongs to a different section of the 
order. The seed of Haylockia approaches to that 
of Zephyranthes, with which it is closely con- 
nected. 
38. Pyrolirion. — Leaves attenuated at both ends ; scape 
one-flowered ; germen sessile ; tube cylindrical, 
erect ; limb campanulate with reflex points ; fila- 
ments equal or alternately equal, suberect, patent ; 
anthers versatile ; style erect or reclining ? stigma 
trifid. 
1. Aureum. — PI. 29. fig. 4. Spec. 400. Herb. Lindl. 
PI. 23. fig. 3. Spec. Dombey Herb. Soc. Linn. 
A. aurea. Flor. Per. 3. 56. 286. A. tubiflora, L’Her. 
S. A. 10. Lil. Narc. Feuill. Obs. 3. 29. 26. A. Pe- 
ruviana. Ker. Lamark. Bulb beset with blind off- 
sets, scape a foot high, flower 4-4f inches long, 
golden, mouth of the tube scaled ; style scarcely 
exceeding the filaments. Dombey’s specimen, 
which is L’Heritier’s plant from Lima, has the 
flower more than four inches long. The peduncles 
in the plate of Flor. Per. are false, and not men- 
tioned in the description. It flowers in January 
and February in the cornfields of Peru at Lurin, 
