Whether our plant is a modification of the species for 
which we give it, or founds another, the safest course in all 
such ambiguous relations still seems to us to be, to deposit, 
while the confirmation of experience is awaited, the objects 
under a same specific head, noting each apart and duly 
expressing their mutual differences. The record of their 
existence is thus distinctly preserved in the system, while 
the risk of adding to the mass of iterated and fallacious 
species is diminished. 
The figure was drawn from a flower produced by a bulb 
brought by Mr. Burchell from South Africa; and found in 
a tract of country till then untraversed by any European. 
Mr. Burchell’s memorandum concerning the plant is in the 
following words: “I met with it in large bunches on the 
“ banks of the Nu-gariep or Black-river, at the place which 
“‘ [ have distinguished in my map by the words ‘ Amaryllis 
“ Station, in lat. 29° 30'S. and long. 24° 48° KE. It grows 
“in situations similar to those occupied by the Common 
“ Yellow Flag (Iris Pseud-Acorus) along the rivers of this 
“ country, and is frequently under water whenever the river 
“rises a little above its ordinary level.” bya 
The present is the smallest of the three presumptive ya- 
rieties already comprehended under this specific head; of 
which having already treated generally in the 303d article 
of this publication, we shall refer to that place. _ \ 
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NOTE. 
In the 2121st article of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (page 5), it’ is 
asserted by Mr. Herbert, that the plant figured in the 1178th plate of that 
work (for the annexed account of which we are responsible) is not AmaA- 
RYLLIS revoluta, for which we have given it, but AMARYLLIS longifolia; 
and that he knows the fact by having ‘seen the very plant from which the 
drawing was taken at Mr. Woodford’s. An assertion certainly grounded in 
error, the plant from which that drawing was done being clearly the AmaA- 
RYLLIS revoluta of the Hortus Kewensis and L’Heritier, the prototype ~ 
sample of which is preserved in the Banksian Herbarium, where we com- 
pated our plant when we gave that account. It differs from. longifolia by 
aving a tube shorter, instead of longer, than the limb. There is also a 
drawing of the Kew plant by Mr. Bauer in the Banksian Museum, now the 
property of Mr. Brown, and with this we also compared it. The corolla is sel- 
dom conspicuously revolute except in weakly flowered samples, or when the 
flower is fading. The very plant from which the drawing was made, or else 
one of its offsets, is now in the possession of Mr. Griffin, at South Lambeth. 
Whether it is Mr, Herbert’s revoluta or not, we do not pretend to know, but 
are clear it is of the species intended by the propounders. : 
