inches long. Pedicels slender, erecto-patent, two to four inches 
long. Perianth cernuous, funnel-shaped; the green, obtusely- 
angled ovary one-fourth of an inch deep; the tube and limb 
together fifteen to eighteen lines long; the erecto-patent oblong 
acute divisions primrose-yellow, tinged externally with green. 
Crown with a distinct bifid tooth between each of the filiform 
filaments. Stamens as long as the perianth. Style sometimes 
slightly exserted. 
After an examination of all the material at our command, it 
seems to us quite clear that there is no character by which 
Coburgia can be distinguished as a genus from Stenomesson, and 
equally clear that the species have been multiplied unduly; and 
that the best character for classifying them in groups 1s that 
furnished by the presence or absence, and by the nature, of the 
teeth of the corona. The following is an attempt at an enume- 
ration and classification of all the known species that come 
under the genus as above described. 
Grour 1.—Corona with distinct bifid teeth between the filiform filaments. 
1. S. rscarnatum, Baker = Pancratium imcarnatum, H. B. K. 
Nov. Gen. i. 280. Coburgia wmcarnata, Sweet, Brit. Flow. 
Gard. ser. ii. t. 17; Kunth Enum. v. 646; of which C. 
splendens, trichoma, variegata, chacopoyensis, versicolor, 
fulva and leta of Herbert and Kunth, are apparently only, 
in a broad sense, varieties, differing principally in the 
colour of the flower. 
2. S. acutum, Baker = Coburgia acuta, Herbert, Kunth 
Enum. iv. 647. 
8. S. opraGiLLENsis, Baker = Coburgia obragillensis of Her- 
bert and Kunth, of which S. angusta of Herbert and 
Kunth is only a variety. 
4. S. curnvipENTAaTuM, Herbert, Bot. Mag. t. 2640; Kunth 
Finum. v. 640. 
5. S. paucirtorum, Herbert, Kunth Enum. v. 641 = Chrysi- 
phiala pauciflora, Lindley in Hooker’s Exotic Flora, t. 182. 
6. S. Prearcer, Baker. Vide supra. 
7. S. coccinrum, Herb. App. 40, Tab. nostr. 309. 
8. S. BREvirLoRUM, Herb. Kunth Enum. v. 643. 
Group 2.—Corona with a distinct simple tooth between each of the filaments. 
9. S. Latirotium, Herb. Bot. Mag. t. 3803; Kunth Enum. vy. 
641. 
10. S. vireLuinum, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1843, t.2; Kunth Enum. 
v. 642. 
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