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possible that such plants should have been confounded with 
the supposed A. pudica. There is a single flower with its 
very long peduncle cut off from the umbel of a magnificent 
Amaryllis grandiflora, var. Banksiana, above described, and 
beside it the fragment of a leaf. Is it possible that, in a 
hasty consideration of the specimen, the absence of spathe 
should have been overlooked, and the peduncle regarded as 
the scape of a one-flowered plant ? Persons of the greatest 
general accuracy are liable to such oversights. There has 
certainly been an error of some kind, because the herbarium 
furnishes nothing else that can be compared with the sup- 
posed A. pudica, unless it be the one-flowered specimen of 
Oporanthus luteus, which is labelled A. pumilio ; but Mr. 
Ker refers to that as pumilio, and it entirely disagrees with 
the description of A. pudica, in not having the lower seg- 
ment pushed down by the superincumbent stamens. Con- 
cerning that specimen see Gastronema. The species is 
stated to rest on the authority of the late Mr. Salisbury, but 
I have too often ascertained Mr. Salisbury’s excessive in- 
accuracy concerning facts of this kind, to have the least de- 
pendance upon it. The species should be finally erased as 
founded on a mistake. 
Amaryllis alba. Kurmfe. Arab. Soraf. Forskgel. Flor. JEg. 
Arab. 209. is probably a Crinum. 
68. Brunsvigia.— Leaves broad, recumbent, hiemal ; scape 
autumnal, precocious ; spathe broad ; germen angu- 
lar ; tube very short (little more than annular) ; pe- 
rianth, style, and filaments, recurved ; filaments ad- 
nate to the annular tube only ; capsule triangularly 
turbinate. 
1. Multiflora. — Heister Mon. Bot. Mag. 39. 1619; 
scapo viridi. 
Var. 2. Rubricaulis. Jacq. H. Sch. 1. 39; scapo rubro. 
The statement in the Bot. Mag. that this plant has black 
shelly seeds is quite erroneous. All Brunsvigias have green 
seeds, perhaps sometimes coloured on the side exposed to 
the sun. I have bulbs of rubricaulis raised from imported 
seed, now fifteen years old and thriving, but yet no bigger 
than a plover’s egg. Imported bulbs have white sand 
amongst their coats ; and probably they grow in the sand, 
which preserves their delicate bulbs from rotting, and the 
vigorous fibres may perhaps penetrate into some stronger 
