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late. In the 2nd section the germen is sloped from the 
peduncle, the perianth distorted and curved upwards, and 
the filaments at first curved downwards and afterwards rising 
and curved upwards. Such a difference might have led to 
the supposition that the two sections were generically dis- 
tinct, but experience has shewn that they breed together 
freely. But there is yet a more singular circumstance 
attending this genus. In all the other genera allied to it 
(indeed, as far as I have observed, in this whole suborder) 
the inflorescence is centripetal (that is, the outer buds of the 
umbel expand first and the central last), unless perhaps the 
very crowded umbel of Buphane ciliaris is divided into 
compartments, by which the law is modified. In the genus 
Nerine, however, some species have a centrifugal and some a 
centripetal inflorescence, and this remarkable peculiarity does 
not coincide with the two sections, but divides each of them 
almost equally. The hybrid Nerine Mitchamise, which was 
figured in my Appendix under the name Versicolor, was pro- 
duced by a centrifugal species, Undulata, fertilized by a 
centripetal species of the other section, Curvifolia, therefore 
doubly removed from each other. Its inflorescence follows 
the centripetal habit of the male parent. It is a shy flowerer, 
and seems quite sterile. Some raised three years ago from 
Pulchella by Curviflora, which, though in different sections, 
have the same course of inflorescence, show the type of the 
male much more strongly in the foliage, and grow more 
freely. The flowers are very similar to those of Mitchamiae, 
or Curvifolia-undulata, having the same pale rose-colour, 
changing to a greyish purple, but they are produced in a more 
vigorous state, appearing to be quite fertile, and I expect to 
obtain seed both from the mule, and from Curvifolia ferti- 
lized by it. I attribute the difference in the apparent ferti- 
lity to the parents having the same habit of inflorescence, 
both being centripetal. I was formerly of opinion that the 
Am. marginata of Jacquin must form a genus by itself, 
intermediate between Brunsvigia and Nerine, having been 
misled to that decision by a specimen professing to be that 
plant in Mr. Lambert’s herbarium ; but I have since ob- 
served that the specimen was not in any manner ascertained 
to be Marginata. but was named conjecturally with a quaere, 
and on comparison with Masson’s specimen of Brunsvigia 
Striata in the Banksian herbarium which has the leaf with it, 
and is certainly correct, I am satisfied the specimen supposed 
to be Marginata is in truth B. striata. We have therefore 
