NOTES. 
Txora grandiflora. Supréi vol. 2. 154. 
Sir William Jones, in a treatise on indian plants, in the fourth volume 
of the Asiatic Researches, informs us that Ischwara is one of the names 
of the Deity Siva; but that there is no indian god known by the appella- 
tion of Izora. The latter is probably an orthography adopted, by the 
Dutch Editor of the Hortus Malabaricus, from the ear. And as con- 
venience of articulation is of more importance than conformity to de- 
rivation in a technical generic name, we do not regret that the Dutchman 
was thus much less learned than the english critic; supposing always that 
Linnzus would have taken up the other for the title of the genus, 
Amaryllis calyptrata. Supra fol. 164. 
Since the above article was printed, the same plant has produced a 
third flower-stem. The inflorescence of this agreed in every point with 
that of the two preceding, but the segments of the corolla were con- 
spicuously marked in the disk with numerous tile-red dots, generally con- 
fluent along the nerves; the stamens were not mottled, but of a pale 
uniform dull-red colour. We have annexed a cut of the Capsule (A), 
which has ripened since; and an outline of a detached seed (B). 
Addenda descriptioni priori. 
0 lateritio-punctate, punctis sepe lineato-confluen- 
ovata, triventri-triloba, supra breve arctata, lobis 
rnd gibbosis, centre tumido deorsdm promisso. Sem. 
compressa, numerosa (200 v. ultra) ordine duplict deorsitm obli- 
quald, mMargine interiore sibi invicém incumbentia, elliptico. ublonga, 
Laciniz limbi disc 
tibus. Caps. obluto- 
pulvinatis, supe 
oliaceo- 
