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only known to us by Feuillet’s description and bad 
plate, with a whitish tubular flower, and limb 
reflex at the point ; it agrees with no genus but 
Pyrolirion. There is no spathe in the figure. It 
is impossible to be quite certain that this plant may 
not be a Cooperia ; but both the leaves and reflex 
points of the limb seem to correspond with those 
of Pyrolirion. 
I have not possessed this genus long enough to be sure of 
its habits. It flowers before the full growth of the leaves in 
S. America in January and February, that is at and after 
midsummer, therefore the leafing of the plant is autumnal. 
As it had had leaves all the last summer at Spofforth, I left 
it dry through the winter and started it in the spring; 
but, as it appears disposed to push more leaves this year in 
September, I apprehend that its proper season of rest will be ' 
the spring and fore-part of the summer. 
§. 3. Oporanthiformes. — Scape solid ; filaments free. 
[Seeds testaceous?] 
39. Gethyllis.— Bulb ovate, coats often imperfect ; leaves 
linear ; scape and germen concealed in the bulb ; tube 
cylindrical, long, adhering to the lower part of the 
style; limb regular, patent; filaments short, straight, 
diverging, sometimes by superfluity doubled or 
trebled, or multiplied numerously, inserted at the 
mouth of the tube ; anthers erect, attached at the 
base ; style erect ; stigma simple or triangular ; cap- 
sule with the scape extended, diaphanous, pulpy ; 
seeds small, round. S. African plants. 
1. Spiralis. — Bot. Mag. 27. 1088. with minute and 
excellent particulars of the genus and species by 
Mr. Ker. Papiria. Thunberg. Act. Phys. 1. 2. 111. 
Leaves narrow, smooth, a little spiral ; tube white, 
near 3 inches long, limb 1^, white, purplish with- 
out ; filaments six. 
2. Ciliaris. — Jacq. Sclioen. 1. 79. Leaves narrow, cili- 
ated ; tube cylindrical, widened near the base; limb 
white, patent ; filaments six, with three anthers on 
each, stigma obtuse. Flowers before the leaves. 
3. A fra. — Bot. Reg. 12. 1016. — Leaves narrow, smooth, 
spotted ; tube purple, 2 inches long, thicker than 
