uished are rarely so decided or important as those by 
which that now proposed is defined. For example, Allium 
is scarcely distinguishable from Ornithogalum and Scilla, 
except by its smell and inflorescence; and these two last 
actually differ in little more than colour. But in the 
subject of these remarks, which agrees with the latter 
in inflorescence, the peculiarity by which it is characterised 
is both remarkable and positive, depending upon an im- 
portant degree of reduction in its means of increase by 
seed. While the genera to which it is most nearly akin 
have capsules containing many seeds, either perfect or 
rudimentary, in each cell, and attached horizontally to the 
axis of fructification, the ovarium of the present genus has 
but one oyulum in each cell, and that not placed at right 
angles with the axis, but parallel with it.  Barnardia 
therefore bears the same relation to the neighbouring tribes 
of Asphodelez as Griffinia does to those of Amaryllidee. 
The genus is named after Edward Barnard, Esquire, 
F.L.S. and H.S., Vice Secretary of the Horticultural 
Society, &c. &c., a gentleman who, independently of his 
botanical acquirements, has long been one of the most 
energetic promoters of the interests of Natural History in 
this country, and to whom we feel particularly gratified in 
having the present opportunity of testifying our individual 
regard, by naming in his honour one of the many valuable 
acquisitions to our gardens which have resulted from an, 
expedition of which he was a principal adviser. 
Bulb ovate, tunicated, the size of a pigeon’s egg. Leaves 
weak, hardish, linear, channelled, cuspidate, externally 
rather angular, the length of the scape, or longer. Scape 
erect, 6-angled, smooth, one and a half to two feet high, 
Raceme simple, conical. . Pedicels filiform, somewhat hori- 
zontal, having at the base a very small bractea. Perianth 
6-leaved, erect-spreading, flesh-coloured, with oblong con- 
cave segments, narrowed at the base, green at the back ; 
the outer ones broadest. Stamens 6, equal, spreading, 
inserted into the base of the sepals, with a broad, fringed, 
flesh-coloured base. Anthers anterior, oblong. Ovary 
ovate, somewhat stalked, bluntly 3-cornered, inflated, 
3-celled, with one-seeded cells; ovule solitary, erect in the 
base of each cell, of the cavity of which it does not fill 
one-third. Style straight, continuous, subulate. Stigma 
simple. Jol: 
