Plate 127. 
THE LARGER GLITTERING NERINE. 
Nerine cornsca major . 
Under this name we have figured, through the kind per¬ 
mission of Charles Leach, Esq., of King’s Road, Clapham (now 
so well known, as the successful grower of Disa grandiflora and 
of Cape bulbs in general), a very desirable flowering bulb, and 
have by him been kindly supplied with the following information 
relative to it:— 
“ About fifteen years since, among a parcel of bulbs which 
were sent to me from the Cape, were about a dozen, the 
size of a Snowdrop, with the name of Nerine flexuosa. The 
bulbs, being small, were planted perhaps six in a pot, and 
when their leayes were fully grown, I noticed that those of 
one of the little bulbs were quite unlike those of the others, 
and I separated it from them at the re-potting time in the 
ensuing autumn, and then grew it by itself for three or four 
years until it came into flower, when, looking into Mr. Loudon’s 
work on bulbous plants, I concluded it to be the Nerine corusca 
figured there. At the same time that I was nursing this, I was 
endeavouring to coax into flower also two or three little bulbs, 
which Mr. Arthur Henderson had been kind enough to get 
for me, supposed to be the true N. corusca. A year or two 
afterwards, when these, instead of increasing in size to that 
of N. Sarniensis , or common Guernsey Lily, as the Cape bulb 
had done, had gone off into almost innumerable offsets, I 
at length obtained a bloom, very like in colour and character 
to the Cape bulb, but far inferior to it in all its dimensions, 
certainly not half its size.” 
“ On referring to Herbert’s 4 Amaryllids,’ I saw that the Dean 
described 4 corusca ’ as spawning too abundantly; and as the 
two or three little bulbs I received from Mr. Henderson fully 
