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AMAKYLLIDACEi'E. 
The leaf is described as channelled, and having the 
margins recurved like flavuin, but the engraving- 
gives leaves quite foreign to the genus, and perhaps 
taken by mistake from some other plant, as the 
plant had no leaves at the time of dowering. Mr. 
Ker was misled to refer this plant to Coccineum, 
which differs in form as well as colour, by the 
faulty engraving in the Flor. Per. The difference 
will be seen at once on comparing the outline of 
Dombey s specimen with that of Ruiz’s coccineum. 
See PI. 28. f. 4 and 5. 
This genus was named by me from the singular slender- 
ness of the middle part of the tube, which is wider below and 
bell-shaped above. Mr. Ker afterwards altered the name to 
Chrysiphiala, likening it to an hour-glass, from the same 
feature of constriction in the middle of the tube, and he pro- 
posed to add it to the genus Leperiza and Carpodetes. Whe- 
ther those two genera ought or ought not to merge in it, the 
name Stenomesson having the priority must be retained, nor 
could there be any reason for changing it for one founded on 
the same feature. The proposed addition to the genus is 
equally objectionable, for the affinity of Carpodetes, as far as 
we know, is to Coburghia, and Leperiza seems to approach 
nearer to Urceolina, but neither of them can possibly belong 
to this genus. I have given the outline of the capsule of 
Stenomesson croceum from Dombey’s specimen, which agrees 
with Ruiz’s representations. It is very broad at bottom and 
tapering to a point : that of Carpodetes very broad at top and 
constricted in the middle. Stenomesson likes a sandy soil, 
shade, and plenty of moisture in summer, complete rest in 
winter. It flowers before the leaves rise. The reader must 
be cautioned, that Mr. Ker’s descriptions of plants from the 
Flor. Per. in the Journal of Science and Arts, cannot be per- 
fectly relied upon, not from any error of his, but because 
they have been made indiscriminately, not from the text of 
Ruiz only, which may generally be trusted, but from the 
plates also, in which the grossest inaccuracies have since been 
detected. 
51. Eucrosia. — Bulb round ; leaves wide, petiolated ; scape 
tapering ; umbel 4- (more?) flowered, pedunculated ; 
germen erect ; ovules oblong, heaped in two rows 
alternating, attached at the inner angle of the cell ; 
