Refugium Botanicum.| [ November, 1871. 
TAB, 309. 
Natural Order AMARYLLIDACE. 
Tribe PANCRATIER. 
Genus Srznomesson, Herbert. 
S. coccineum (Herbert, App. 40).  Foliis subsynanthiis linearibus 
pedalibus vel ultra 4—6 lin. latis modice crassis utrinque 
viridibus, scapis teretibus foliis subequilongis, umbellis 4—8- 
floris, bracteis multis linearibus et lanceolatis, pedicellis erectis 
1—1}-uncialibus, perianthii coccinei segmentis oblongo-lan- 
ceolatis acutis tubo cernuo infundibuliformi cite constricto 
duplo brevioribus, corona inter filamentos dentibus bifidis 
instructa, staminibus inclusis, stylo demum leviter exserto. — 
Coburgia coccinea, Herbert, Bot. Mag. t. 8865. C. precipitata, 
Herb. Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. p. 54; Kunth, num. v. 649. Pan- 
crattum coccineum, Ruiz et Pavon, Fl. Perwy. ii. p. 54, t. 285, 
fig. 5. 
A native of the Peruvian Andes. Our plant sent to Europe by 
Mr. Farris. , 
Bulb ovoid, an inch and a half thick, clothed up to the neck 
with brown membranous coats. Leaves four or five, not fully 
developed till after the flowers fade, a foot or more long, three- 
eighths to half an inch broad, moderately fleshy in texture, 
concave down the face, bright green on both sides. Scape a foot 
or more long, firm, terete, slightly glaucous. SBracts several, 
membranous, linear and lanceolate. Flowers four to eight in an 
umbel. Pedicels erect, an inch to an inch and a half long. 
Perianth an inch and a half long, including the ovary, bright 
crimson; the oblong-lanceolate divisions half as long as the 
abruptly drooping funnel-shaped tube, which is suddenly con- 
stricted two-thirds of the way down. Crown with a distinct bifid 
tooth between each of the filiform jilaments. Stamens reaching 
the mouth of the flower. Style finally a little exserted. 
As will be seen by the synonyms given, I have identified the 
plant figured by Herbert in the ‘ Botanical Magazine’ as Coburgia 
coceinea with the Pancratium coccineum of the ‘Flora Peruviana,’ 
thus following his earlier in preference to his later opinion on 
the subject. Whether his imperfectly described Stenomesson 
breviflorum be anything more than a broad-leaved variety of the 
