Refugium Botanicum.]} [April, 1868. 
TAB. 22, 
Natural Order AMARYLLIDACES. 
Tribe PANCRATIE. 
Genus STENOMESSON, Herb. 
S. sUSPENSUM, n.sp. Foliis linearibus scapo equantibus, spathis bivalvis 
pedicellis subzquantibus, floribus 4—6 nutantibus coccineis, tubo 
cernuo gracili segmentis oblongis imbricatis duplo longiore, corona 
longe exserta sine dentibus interstamineis. 
A native of Peru, gathered by Mr. Fraser. 
Bulb ovate, an inch thick, the coats dark brown, papyraceous, 
truncate upwards. Leaves two, linear, acute, a foot long, half an 
inch broad, glaucous-green, flat, fleshy, naked, the midrib pro- 
minent beneath. Scape firm, erect, naked, equalling the leaves. 
Spathe two-leaved, lanceolate, an inch and a half long. lowers 
four to six, drooping, the pedicels about an inch long, scarcely 
protruding from the clasping spathes. Perianth an inch anda 
half long, the tube half its length, not more than an eighth of 
an inch thick below, but dilated upwards, the divisions half an 
inch deep, oblong, imbricated, the outer ones blunt, the inner 
ones subacute, both bright scarlet on both sides like the tube. 
Stamens equalling the perianth, the filaments dilated at the base 
and quite close together, without any teeth between them, ex- 
ceeding the corona. Style slightly exserted. Capsule hardly at all 
angular. 
Like S. Hartwegii, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, t. 22, this differs 
from the character of Stenomesson, as laid down in Kunth, by the 
staminal corona being entirely without teeth between the stamens, 
but we do not separate it, from a belief that when the Order is 
revised it will be found best to join these with the true Steno- 
messons and Coburgias in one genus, regarding the nature of the 
fringe of the staminal corona as furnishing characters of sectional 
value only.—J. G. B. 
I received this interesting bulbous plant, some years since, 
from Mr. Fraser, who collected it in Peru. It requires warm 
greenhouse treatment, and should be grown in a mixture of loam 
and peat. It should be kept well watered while growing, and 
allowed to rest dry and warm.—W. W.S. 
