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no knowledge of Marginata excepting from the figure and 
description by Jacquin. In his plate it differs from all other 
species of Nerine in having broader leaves, with a red mar- 
gin and a short blunt spathe, in which respects it approxi- 
mates more to Brunsvioia. The inflorescence differs in no 
other respect from that of Curvifolia, except being less un- 
dulated, and I have lately observed the undulation of Curvi- 
folia very much diminished under some circumstances of 
temperature, and in particular seedlings. Jacquin mentions 
that marginata has a fetid smell, and, having in the autumn 
of 1835, placed Curvifolia one sunny day in the stove to 
observe the effect of heat on the posture of its filaments, 1 
was surprised to find that it had a fetid smell, something 
like that which the most fragrant hyacinths acquire when 
they are beginning to decay. That circumstance is decisive 
as to the near affinity of the two plants, and (the confusion 
occasioned by the supposed specimen in Mr. Lambert’s her- 
barium being removed) I have no hesitation in saying that 
it is a Nerine, with broader leaves than any of the other 
species, and differing further in having a red margin. I 
have, however, plants of Curvifolia with the leaf nearly as 
broad. This remarkable plant must have been one of Mas- 
son’s collection ; he followed the Western coast from the 
Cape, and no other traveller has pursued the same track, which 
is the cause that several of the plants which he introduced 
have not been since met with. Marginata agrees with Cur- 
vifolia in having the new leaves sprouting during the time 
of flowering ; those of Brunsvigia appear after. Curvifolia 
flowers freely ; Corusca spawns too abundantly ; Venusta 
minor is a beautiful miniature of Venusta, and flowers pretty 
freely. I have had it about twenty-five years, but it has 
never been figured : the colour deep red. Flexuosa, pul- 
chella, humilis, and undulata are of easy cultivation. Un- 
dulata flowers strongest out of doors against the front wall of 
a greenhouse. The flowering of all is autumnal, in some 
pushing a little before the leaves, in some as Flexuosa and 
Undulata after. My first mention of Lucida, in the Bot. 
Mag. represented it to be a Nerine. I was afterwards misled 
by an insufficient examination of a dry specimen to think it 
an anomalous Brunsvigia. My first impression was right, 
and I have since ascertained that the inflorescence and fruit 
exactly agree in all points with Nerine. The only pecu- 
liarity it has is, that after a period of rest its old leaves are 
