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as Josephiniana, to the genus Amaryllis, and I 
expect that my cross between the two last species 
will much resemble it. I lost my bulb of grandi- 
flora very soon, and I fear that all that were im- 
ported at the same time may have been also lost in 
consequence of the dangerous practice of keeping 
the bulb above ground. 
Var. 2. Banksiana. — PI. 32. fig. 2. Spec. Herb. Banks, 
ex hort. Kew. Leaf not half an inch wide (7-16ths); 
peduncle near 6 inches, curved at the end ; peri- 
anth 2f long, segments about wide, about half 
an inch longer than the filaments and style ; tube 
scarcely any. There is a single flower of this plant 
with a portion of a leaf from the Kew Garden, in 
the Banksian herbarium. It was probably one of 
Masson’s plants, and seems distinct from any 
known species, unless it be grandiflora, to which 
it is clearly allied; but if the true leaf is attached 
to it (which may always be doubted with respect 
to plants that produce the leaf and the flower at 
different seasons), it is not above one-third the 
width, if so much, Never having seen the cap- 
sule of grandiflora, nor its flower so as to ascertain 
the point of adhesion of its filaments, I judge by its 
affinity in bulb and foliage to Josephiniana, and by 
the germen of which I have given a representation, 
that it is an Amaryllis. 
Amaryllis pudica, Ker. is certainly an abortive specimen 
of A. Belladonna, of which all the buds had perished except 
one; a circumstance not unusual with bulbs that flower on 
their first importation, before they have made fibres. When 
the leaves grew, it became of course confounded with other 
plants of A. Belladonna, and therefore could not be identi- 
fied afterwards. In consequence of Mr. Ker’s statement that 
a specimen existed in the Banks, herb, conformable to A. 
pudica, except in having a sessile instead of a pedunculated 
germen, a distinction however which would have been in- 
surmountable, I have most carefully examined that herba- 
rium, and the result of the inquiry is, that the statement is 
erroneous. There are one-flowered specimens of Crinum 
Distichum, and one of Crinum yuccaeides (Broussoneti.) 
from Kew Gardens, and marked Sierra Leone. It is scarcely 
