
Refugium Botanicum.] [June, 1873, 
TAB, 356. 
Natural Order AMARYLLIDACE®. 
Tribe AMARYLLER. 
Genus ZEPHYRANTHES, Herbert. 
Z. verecunpa (Herbert, Bot. Mag. t. 2583). Bulbo ovoideo, foliis 
8—4 synanthis suberectis viridibus planiusculis 8—12 poll. 
longis 13—2 lin. latis, spathe valvis lnearibus deorsum con- 
natis, floribus sessilibus infundibuliformibus albis roseo tinctis 
18—21 lin. longis, segmentis oblongo-oblanceolatis acutis 
diutine ascendentibus tubo duplo longioribus, interioribus 
paulo minoribus, genitalibus inclusis. — Zephyranthes sessilis 
var. verecunda, Herbert, Amaryll, 175. 
A native of Mexico and Guatemala. 
Bulb ovoid, brown-tunicated, an inch thick. Leaves three or 
four to a bulb, contemporary with the flower, green, fleshy, sub- 
erect, nearly flat, eight to twelve inches long, a line and a half to 
two lines broad, the veins immersed. Spathe of two linear mem- 
branous valves connate downwards, tightly adpressed to the 
flower. flower solitary, erect, quite sessile inside the spathe, 
an inch and a half to an inch and three-fourths long, white more 
or less deeply tinged with pink. TJwbe funnel-shaped, half to 
five-eighths of an inch deep. Segments twice as long as the tube, 
ascending, oblanceolate-oblong, acute, the inner three rather 
smaller than the outer ones. Filaments from the throat of the 
tube, much shorter than the segments; anthers linear. Stigma 
distinctly trifid, placed on a level with the anthers. 
Tas. 856.—1, vertical section of ovary, and portion of perianth, to 
show the attachment of the stamens; 2, apex of style, with stigmas ; 
3, stamen; 4, pollen-grains: all magnified.—J. G. B. 

A pretty species of Zephyranthes, which I received from 
Mexico, through Mons. Boucard. It requires the same treat- 
ment as recommended for Zephyranthes sessilis, 'Tab. 212 of this 
work.—W. W.S. 
