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and kept dry in winter, but the bulbs seem liable to canker 
in peat. It has very much the constitution of the tender 
Narcisseae, and likes a fertile loam; but, except where the 
ground is heated by a flue, the bulbs, if not killed by frost, 
are injured by moisture. They should be taken up at the 
approach of winter without destroying the fibres, and placed 
in a pot of sufficient size to contain them, dry sandy soil 
being poured in to cover them ; they may then be set in 
any dry warm situation till April, when, however dry they 
may be, they will begin to sprout. All offsets should then 
be taken off, and they may be set either in pots or in a 
sunny border. No native specimens of this plant occur 
in any herbarium with which I am acquainted. Mr. 
Brookes’s bulbs were said to have come from Chili, but I 
have some reason for doubting the fact. Bulbs of Chlid. 
fragrans were sent to my brother from Buenos Ayres about 
the same time, I believe at the same time precisely ; but it 
may have been an inhabitant of gardens there, like Ismene 
Calatliina, which accompanied it. Mr. Ker and Dr. Lindley 
were quite mistaken in identifying this sessile plant with 
Pancratium luteum of Ruiz, the Clinanthus luteus of my 
appendix, a pedunculated plant, concerning which see the 
next genus. 
45. Clinanthus. — Tube long, funnel-shaped ; limb short, 
continuous ; filaments acuminately winged (connected 
by the wings ?) decurrent ; anthers short, broad at the 
base, erect, attached at the base. [Scape peduncu- 
lated ; spathe 2-valved ; germen round ; leaves linear 
lorate, sheathing at the base.] Native of Peru. 
]. Luteus. — PI. 27. f. 1. Herb. App. 40. Specimina 
Pancr. luteum. Ruiz. Herb. Lamb. Leaves 6 or 7 
inches long (at the time of flowering, perhaps 
longer when full grown) ; j|-| wide, subacute ; 
scape 2-flowered ; peduncles -§-1? long; perianth 
yellow, near two inches long, tube li, limb near 
f, segments rather obtuse. The specimens seem 
to be all two-flowered, two of them being perfect, 
the others broken. 
It seems strange that, after I had described this plant 
and Chlid. fragrans, this with long peduncles and small 
flowers should have been mistaken for a half-blown specimen 
of Chlid. fragrans, which has the flowers nearly twice as 
