grown in large patches, as we have seen it at Mr. Griffin's 
makes even a gayer and more showy appearance than the 
Hyacinth or Tulip planted in the same way. All seet 
of easy culture, and are propagated abundantly by offset 
from their bulbs. A conservatory or greenhouse is the sitt-— 
ation that suits them best, and a mixture of loam and peat- — 
earth the fittest mould for them. 
We take our plant to be a mere seminal variety of pallida, 
the prototype sample of which has pale blue colour in thos? — 
parts of the corolla where the present has pale yellow; and — 
we see nothing to determine their distinction as species. The 
drawing was made last March at Mr. Griffin’s, at South 
Lambeth, from a plant imported from the Cape of Good 
~ Hope. 
Bulb tunicated. Leaves two, uprightly recurved, li- 
nearly oblong, smooth, shining, from 9 inches to about 2 
foot high, half an inch broad or more, conyolutely sheathing 
at the lower part. Scape somewhat shorter than the leaves; 
glaucous. Raceme many-flowered; flowers rather loosely 
arranged, horizontal ; pedicles several times shorter than the 
corolla; bractes broadly ovate, short, pointed. Corolla 
scarcely exceeding 3 of an inch in length, oblong, cylindri- 
cally campanulate, slightly urceolate; 3 outer segments 
about 3 shorter than the others, very obtuse with a greenish — 
subtriangular caruncle on the back a little below the top, 
one rather longer than the rest, and more conspicuously 
keeled, 3 imner ones spatulately obovate, pale, thinner, 
with an obsolete green streak at the upper part of the keel, 
one of them rather narrower than the rest, with a deep 
notch at the end. Stamens converging, nearly equal to 
the corolla: pollen yellow. Germen green, oblong, slightly 
conical rounded hexagonal six-furrowed, with three of the 
furrows deeper than the others. 
Lacuenatia viridis and Scitxa serotina, have both beet 
removed from their former places, and transferred to the 
genus Uroprtaton, of which a species has been represented 
in the 156th article of this publication. 
