Refugium Botanicum. | [ Vovember, 1871. 
TAB. 308. 
Natural Order AMARYLLIDACEA. 
Tribe PANCRATIE®. 
Genus Stenomesson (Herb. App. 40). Perianthium infundibuliforme 
tubo infundibuliformi supra ovarium longe producto curvato 
seementis oblongis vel oblongo-lanceolatis subequalibus tubo 
2—4-plo brevioribus. Corona prope faucem tubi inserta inter 
filamentis varie dentata vel truncata. Ovarium 3-loculare, 
ovulis in loculo multis biseriatis; stylus filiformis subrectus 
vel cum tubo sepe curvatus, sepe demum exsertus; stigma 
punctiforme. Stamina 6 filamentis filiformibus ex ore corone 
egredientibus inclusis vel leviter exsertis, antheris oblongis 
versatilibus. Capsula oblongo-triquetra loculicide trivalvis ; 
seminibus multis oblongis subcompressis ; testa nigra. Herbze 
bulbose scapose Andine foliis synanthiis linearibus vel lorato- 
lanceolatis floribus umbellatis. — Chrysiphiala, Ker, et Endl. 
Coburgia, Sweet et Endlich. 
S. Prarcer (Baker). Foliis synanthiis lorato-lanceolatis sesqui- 
pedalibus longis 14—15 lin. latis e medio ad apicem acutum et 
petiolum brevem sensim angustatis margine leviter revolutis, 
scapo 23—8-pedali, umbellis 6—8-floris, bracteis multis in- 
eequalibus, pedicellis elongatis, perianthu pallide flavi seg- 
mentis oblongis acutis tubo equilongis, corona inter filamentos 
dentibus bifidis instructa, staminibus cum stylo vix vel haud 
exsertis. 
A native of the Andes of Bolivia, gathered and distributed by 
Lobb (230), and recently by Mandon (No. 1198), introduced into 
England in a living state by the late Mr. Pearce. 
Bulb ovoid, two inches thick, three to four inches deep, coated 
up to the neck by copious bright brown membranous tunics. 
Leaves cotemporary with the flowers, Jorate-lanceolate, a foot 
and a half long, fourteen to fifteen lines broad at the middle, 
narrowed gradually upwards to an acute point, and downwards 
into a flattened petiole two to three inches long, not very fleshy 
in texture, glabrous, the edge rather revolute, the upper side 
bright green, the lower paler, laxly cellular. Scape two and 
and a half to three feet high, firm, slightly compressed, sub- 
glaucous. lowers six to eight in an umbel. Bracts several, 
membranous, linear and lanceolate, an inch and a half to two 
