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ceived in that respect, for it is very prone to rot, if 
incautiously watered. I lost three plants in con- 
sequence of having placed them out of doors in 
front of a stove, where they cannot endure the cold 
dampness of the winter. I lost another last year 
by leaving it out in the rain in September, and the 
finest bulb of the kind at Highclere was killed by 
one profuse watering in a low T temperature in Octo- 
ber. It is a plant of difficult culture on this 
account, and though it may bear much wet in the 
hot season, it is certainly not an aquatic plant. 1 
have therefore restored the name which was first 
published; as the second, which was substituted in 
compliment to Dr. Burchell’s MS. label, is falla- 
cious, and may lead to its loss in cultivation. 
43. Longiflorum. Hybridum vix spontaneum ; ex erube- 
scente et Capensi. Am. longifolia y. Bot. Reg. 4. 
303. loculis 9-1 1-spermis. ex Jamaica. Varietas 
alia est ex Demerara, ubi C. Capense in scrobibus 
viget . — Hybridum hortense, Erubescente-Capense 
Bot. Mag. 49. 2336. vix diversum est, loculis 
14-spermis. The plant figured in the Bot. Register 
is a mule between erubescens and Capense from 
Jamaica ; another mule differing a little was 
brought from Demerara, where C. Capense, origi- 
nally planted in gardens, is naturalized in the 
ditches: and they are not materially different from 
the artificial mules raised from the same inter- 
mixture in this country. The little difference that 
exists arises perhaps from their having proceeded 
from different varieties of erubescens. 
44. Paxtoni. —Hybridum fortuitum ; ex India orientali. 
Bulbo 20 unc. circu. caudice 8 unc. foliis scabro- 
erubescentis foliis affinibus nitentioribus, scapo 
bipedali purpurascente, umbella 20-30-flora incli- 
nata; germine sessili, tubo viridi purpurascente 
5 unciali, limbo 3^ pallidissime erubescente saturate 
rosco-striato, expansione 6 unciali, stylo puniceo 
filamentis parum longiore, limbo \ unc. breviore, 
antheris tortilibus corrugatis, polline subsicco, 
loculis ovulis 7-8 indistinctis. The flowers of this 
fine plant, which was sent by Lord William Ben- 
tinck, from the East Indies to the Duke of Devon- 
