We are indebted to Messrs, Lee and .Kennedy of the 
Hammersmith nursery for the specimen from which the 
drawing was made, by whom we are informed that it is na- 
tive of South America. Not very tender, but will thrive in 
a well secured garden-pit, where it flowers about the end 
of May. Some of the particoloured Peruvian Pancratiums 
seem to be the nearest allied to it of any vegetables known 
to us, 
We had no opportunity of inspecting the bulb which 
roduced the flower; the one represented is an offset from 
that. Leaves multifarious, petioled; blade lanceolate, about 
six inches long, 1-2 broad, apple-green, bright, tender, 
pale underneath, midrib keeled. Scape not so thick as a 
common pen, green, round, compressed, upright, fistular. 
Spathe 4-flowered, leaflets 4, narrow, acuminate, sphace- 
late. Peduncles of different lengths, longest about an inch 
and half high, straight, green. Germen green, bright, 
elliptic, trigonally lobed, corners obtuse, trilocular; ovwles 
in two ranks, many in each loculament. Corolla scarcely 
exceeding an inch in length, salmon-coloured, with green 
points, superior, persistent, scentless, funnelform, subrin- 
gent, nodding ; tube green, oblique, shorter than the germen, 
roundedly hexagonal, crowned at the orifice, by the sub- 
ovate plano-convex: corpuscles above mentioned; limb 6- 
parted, subventricose, segments lanceolate, interior flatter 
and undulate, exterior firmer with slightly hooked points. 
Filaments white, declining, patent, nearly twice the length 
‘of the corolla, connected below the middle by very narrow 
membranes into a slender tube indented above for more™ 
than half its length by an open narrow break, as the flower 
closes previous to decay protruding through the front of the 
~* flower along with the style: anthers veering, linear-oblong, 
_ green. Style white the length of the filaments, but much 
rmer. Stigma obtuse, simple. 
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@ The corolla dissected vertically, to show the position of the six glan- 
-dular corpuscles at the mouth of the tube, 
