at the base, the three alternate shorter ones as bidentate, 
and the seeds as flat and membranously bordered. By the 
two first marks, if correctly expressed, it is distinguished 
from Amaryuus, and by the latter from Pancratium, to 
which last it plainly comes the nearest. What Mr. Lindley 
intends by anther innate we own we cannot guess: possibly 
that circumstance may prove another available distinction. 
The plant drawn for our publication is said to have come 
from Chili; that which flowered in Lord Caernarvon’s collec- 
tion at Highclere, from Buenos Ayres; and a native sample 
in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium was probably collected in 
Peru. 
The fragrance has been likened to that of Frankincense. 
Mr. Lindley speaks of the leaves as grasslike, of a bright 
green colour, and as coming after the departure of the in- 
florescence. In our sample the leaves were glaucous and 
simultaneous with the flowers; nor were the flowers quite 
sessile as described by Mr. Lindley, but had short pe- 
duncles. Mr. Lindley does not seem to have seen the 
foliage. The scape is sometimes a foot and half high. 
If we should ever meet with a fresh plant, we. shall 
notice the subject more fully in some future article of this 
Register. 
