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consideration be passed over, it is evident, that as it has a 
yellow cup and a whiter limb than any species of Ajax, it 
must (if cross-bred) be derived from a two-coloured Ajax 
and a Queltia with a white limb ; and the only such Queltias 
that we have are Macleaana, and Montana with its varie- 
ties ; but there is decisive proof that it cannot be so bred, 
because its style is as long as that of any two-coloured Ajax, 
and the style of the two white-tinted Queltias is from half to 
^ths of an inch shorter ; the style of the cross-bred plant 
would have been therefore abbreviated, instead of being as 
long and proportionally longer. The style of Q. incompara- 
bilis is also quarter of an inch shorter, and the same objec- 
tion applies to it besides, that the palest variety of that plant 
has not the limb so white as A. Sabinianus, and could not 
therefore by its influence have effaced the yellow tint of the 
parent Ajax ; besides which, the limb of the whitish incom- 
parabilis is lfths of an inch long, and that of the two- 
coloured A. bicolor and tubaeflorus in their varieties being- 
longer than that of Sabinianus, the cross-bred plant would 
not be likely to have it abbreviated so as to be -|ths of an 
inch shorter than that of either parent. It does not approxi- 
mate in any manner to the reflex species forming the genus 
Ganymedes, nor to N. poeticus, nor to the Hermiones; and 
any cross, except with the Queltias above named, would have 
produced a still more different result, I think therefore that 
I must discard the suggestion of its hybrid origin, notwith- 
standing my respect for the quarter from whence it has been 
derived. I hope that I shall be able to obtain a bulb of it, 
being very desirous of more intimate acquaintance with 
the plant by cultivating it. Haworth’s genus Oileus, 
without a single feature applicable to a generic character, 
contains the varieties of Ajax, which are distinguished only 
by the margin of their cup being even and not in the 
least reflex, and whose existence depends on the faith of 
old books. His Diomedes unites Ajax Sabinianus with 
Queltia Macleaana, the two plants through which the genera 
approximate, but which are much more essentially different 
from each other than from the other species of their re- 
spective genera. 
76. Ganymedes. — Style straight, slender ; filaments adher- 
ing to the upper part of the tube with greater diversity 
than Queltia ; sepaline stamens more prolonged ; 
limb decidedly reflex ; (cup equalling or shorter than 
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