NEMA, GeEIssorHIzA, Ixta, Sparaxis, Trrronta, Lapey- . 
ROUSIA, HEsPERANTHA, Anomatueca, Warsonta, and Ba- 
BIANA, genera, in our apprehension, as expedient and mu- — 
tually as distinct in character and habit as the confining 
generic groups of any of the orders of the Monocotyle- 
donous division of Vegetables. = 
The drawing is from a plant which flowered about four 
years ago in Mr. Griffin’s conservatory at South Lambeth, 
and had been received from the Cape of Good Hope. It is 
a variety that we have not before met with in our collec- 
tions. 
Maculata, curiously variable in the colour of the flower, 
displays itself in every hue and shade, not excepting the 
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most beautiful greens, and even black, colours so rare in the _ 
corolla of other vegetables. As a species, we confess, we 
can find no other line of demarcation between it and erecta, 
variable in the same way and to the same extent, but 
the circular spot in the centre of the limb of the first, 
which is not in the latter, nor should we have separated 
the two had we not found them established by former bota- 
nists of eminence. 
The nucleus or bud of the bulb-tuber of this genus, like 
that of Crocus, resembles in substance the kernel of a 
chestnut, and dies yearly away concealed within its dry 
fibro-membranous permanent coats, while evolying another 
which is to bear the flower of the season. In Warsonta 
the bulb-tuber, which perishes, is the one that has itself 
borne the flower of the season, the scape of which is trans- 
mitted between two principal buds, evolved during its 
growth, and which do not flower until the ensuing season. 
