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as the last, becoming very slender and purplish at tlie 
bottom—indications of its affinity with Valotta. The 
shape of the flowers, the insertion, and length of stamens, 
ami the relative length and position of the style, are of 
not the slightest use, as private marks, for determining 
species, or even sections, in the genus Amaryllis, to 
which all these bulbs properly belong. 
CviiXANTHUs onoiius. — Only four crimson, slightly 
fragrant flowers, and these not (^uite so pendulous as is 
usual. The leaves are much narrower than in the last 
two; they are linear, or the edges nearly meeting along 
the back. 
Cyrt.vnthus paludus.—F ive dull pink flowers, paler 
above the middle ; quite pendulous. Very narrow, dark 
green leaves, attenuated, or becoming smaller, at both 
ends. 
Cyktanxiius spiralis.—a very marked species, from 
the leaves growing spirally, in the shape of a corkscrew. 
There are six or seven flowers, quite pendulous, and of | 
two shades of yellow, giving them a rich soft tint. From | 
Uitenage, near Algoa Ray. 
Cyrtanthus STUiAxus.—Only three or four flowers, 
pendulous, as usual, beautiful red colour and streaked 
with yellow; leaves broader than in any of the other 
deciduous ones a full hall-inch, a foot long, and speckled 
with red at the bottom. If I am right in considering 
the shape of a flower as of no value for generic distinc¬ 
tions in Amaryllis, what else is to hinder this pretty 
flower from being a Gastronemd. That it will cross 
with that section, I have not the slightest doubt in my 
own mind ; nor that the seedlings will be the pret¬ 
tiest striped flowers among all the bulbs—regular Car¬ 
nation stripes, in fact. The late Mr. Rollison, the father 
of that respectable lirni at Tooting, used to grow these 
CijrtaiUlis beautifully; and Mr. Carter, of llolborn, has 
them often on sale from the Cape growers. They are 
natives of the eastern territories of the Cape of Good 
Hope, and so readily known by their coral bells banging 
from the top of the stem, that a common shepherd might 
be entrusted to gather them in his walks. 
UAUBENYA. 
Daudkny'a aurea and fulva.—A nybody who remem¬ 
bers the very curious bulbs that were named after 
Masson, the botanical traveller in South Africa, will 
have no difficulty in recognising these two no less 
curious plants; and, as far as gardeners are concerned, 
there is not the slightest dilference in the management 
of these from that necessary for the old Massonids; 
indeed, the colour of these flowers, and those of Airw- 
sonia being bell shaped instead of tubular, and marked 
with honey ])ores inside, are the only points of differ¬ 
ence, or private mark, between Dauhenya and Massonia. ! 
The two genera are only lit for botanic gardens. The | 
leaves are very handsome, dark green, thick, and shin¬ 
ing, not more than three inches long and nearly as 
broad. When full grown, they look much like the leaves 
of HicnKinthus coccineiis ; when half grown, they fall on 
each side the same way; then an umbel of flowers comes 
out from between these two leaves, with hardly a stalk, 
and tho bunch of flowers looks as if it was held by the 
closeness of the bottom of the leaves ; the first one has 
yellow flowers, tho second tawny ones. Tho bulbs 
require the same kind of treatment as the Brunsiiyuis. 
DIANELLA. 
These are also very old-fashioned herbaceous plants, 
with grassy leaves, and spreading panicles of small blue 
flowers of difl'erent shades, and tuberous roots, looking 
very much like bulbs, and as such are recorded in 
our books. They are excessively pretty little things, 
and as easy to manage almost as Crocuses; but they 
are out of fashion. Tho great Horticultural Societies 
have banished all tho best of the old-fashioned plants 
from cultivation. There is no great good ever ctfected 
without some evil or hardship felt in some quarter or 
another; and these New Holland Diana Lilyworts had 
to retire to give place to such things as Oloriosa superba, 
and things that are neither sujierb nor glorious. Any 
light sandy loam will grow Dianellas of all sorts; they 
will also grow well in peat; and flower for a long time in 
summer. They seem to till up the corresponding sjiace 
in New Holland which the Conanthers do in South 
i America, and there is a great general resemblance 
j between tbe two families, only the Americans are bad 
to grow—these the reverse. 
DlllMIA. 
This is another congregation of old-fashioned Lily- 
worts from the Cape, but no one grows them now, and 
they were never worth much out of botanic gardens; 
but they will grow and flower in any light soil. Ciliaris, 
laiiceafolia, and 2 nirpHrascens are the best of tbem; but 
they are uow very scarce, and seldom met with. 
ECHEANDIA. 
Echeandia xERNiFOLiA, alids (Jonuntliem echeandia 
and AiUhericum rejlexiim. — A small, yellow-flowered 
tuberous-rooted plant, a native of Mexico, whence it 
was obtained by Sir Charles Lemon, with whom it 
flowered in 1837 for the first lime. It is only botani- 
cally interesting. 
ELISENE. 
Elisene longu’Exala, alias Pancratium ringens in 
the “ Flora I’eruviana." Pancratium and Hymenocallis 
come so close to each other in the first-described sjiecies, 
that no one could tell which was which in tho absence 
of the seeds, and each of them has branched out into 
sections so very difl'erent in aspect ns to have often 
deceived the most learned fully as much as ever Ama¬ 
ryllis did; and here is the very last example that i can 
call to mind of the descrijition of what appears on the 
face of it to bo only a well-marked section of Ismene ; 
this Elisene is not farther removed from Hymenocallis 
than Ismene ; and I am quite sure, as far as one can 
say in tho absence of facts, that both of them, with 
several other plants that are now held by botanists to 
be distinct genera, will be proved, in tho long run, to 
breed together, and with Hymenocallis —thus exemplify¬ 
ing the adage, that the first idea and the last one are 
sure to bo right- The first idea was, that all the lily¬ 
like flowers with tho neclarian membrane were Pau- 
cratiums; now we begin to see that Pancratiums are 
very limited indeed, and that nine-tenths of the Pan- 
cratioid plants must ultimately be arranged under Hy¬ 
menocallis. 
Elisene lonyipetala is one of the handsomest bulbs 
related to Ismene, and, like it, is a native of the Peruvian 
Andes. Tho first time it flowered in this country was 
in 18-10, at tho end of March, after resting all the 
winter. The flower scape was a yard high, and carried 
six large white flowers, whose divisions, or petals, were 
much longer than is generally seen in allied bulbs; 
hence the name. The first is an ancient name of 
romance—a celebrated beauty. No bulb can be more 
easy to grow than this, if it gets a complete rest 
for four or live months in winter, and is planted in 
pure sand, like tho old Peruvian Daffodil, Ismene 
Amancics. After flowering in the spring it ought 
to be planted out-of-doors about the end of May, 
like the Jacobsea Lily [Sprchelia), where it will grow 
with groat vigour till tlie end of September. On 
the first ajipearance of frost it ought to bo dried; 
exactly the same kind of treatment as one would give 
to Spreliclia formusissima, except that it must have a 
potful of sand to flower in, and a largo quantity of sand 
put under it in tho border, and the roots must be pre¬ 
served in winter as well as the bulbs. A cross between 
