accompanying figure was taken were sent from Chile by 
Mr. Miers to Mr.’Place, by whom they were presented to 
the Horticultural Society, in whose Garden our drawing 
was made in June 1827. 
It is a hardy greenhouse plant, remaining in flower for 
several weeks, and remarkable for the intense bright blue 
of its nodding blossoms. It requires to be grown in light 
sandy loam, to be well watered when coming into flower, 
and after the blossoming is over to be kept dry. 
Mr. Don has proposed to separate this plant from 
Conanthera, chiefly, as we understand him, because of 
the segments of its flower cohering into a campanulate 
tube, on which account it differs from Conanthera as 
Hyacinthus does from Scilla. But it appears to us, not- 
withstanding the truth of this statement, that in this par- 
ticular case the characters depended upon by Mr. Don are 
overruled by other and far more important peculiarities 
common to both plants. There is, we presume, no doubt, 
although the seeds have not been examined, of this genus 
belonging to Asphodelee. We have, therefore, in a very 
natural group of plants, remarkable for the great uni- 
formity of their structure, two species differing from all 
previously discovered in the very remarkable circum- 
stances of their pedicels having no articulation, their 
ovarium being partly inferior, the alternate segments of 
the perianthium being fringed at the margin, and the 
anthers conniving into a cone. These very unusual cha- 
racters seem to-us to possess powers of combination 
which wholly overrule others of so secondary a nature 
as the greater or less cohesion of the segments of the 
perianthium, and to indicate a genus of plants too nearly 
allied in nature to be broken up by slight modifications 
of structure. Whether the Echeandia of Ortega is really 
distinct from Conanthera, is another question, which can 
only be determined by the inspection of authentic speci- 
mens; these we have not the good fortune to possess ; 
and the figure and description in Link and Ottos’ Addil- 
dungen neuer und seltener gewachse do not enable us to 
settle the point. 
A bulbous-rooted plant, a span high, and smooth. 
Leaves linear, acuminate, spreading, the length of the 
. scape. Scape round, loosely panicled. Bractee subulate. 
