In this genus however it is a part more prone to conspicuous 
change in the transitions of species, than even the less es— 
sential ones, and those usually the subjects of obvious va— 
riation, are found to be in most other vegetables=and 
it would seem as if this circumstance was combined with @ 
similar tendency in the filaments, which occur within the 
corresponding limits, sometimes entirely distinct, at other 
times variously monadelphous, at others partly monadel- 
phous and partly gynandrous, three alternate ones adhering 
one to the other, the rest to the style; differences that in 
strictness would require their dispersion among three dis- 
tant classes of the Linnean System. 
All the species yet known belong to the Cape of Good 
Hope; from whence the present was introduced by Mr. 
Masson in 1774, and soon after recorded by Dr. Solander in 
the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis, under Leucasum; 
from which genus, though plainly its near of kin, it differs 
in not having a follicular or unilaterally dehiscent spathe, 
-nor reversed anthers longer than the filament, and that shed 
the pollen from an aperture at their summit. . 
In the genus our species is known by a style with a tur- 
binately ovate angularly plaited wenlike protuberance, form- 
ing the part below the middle and just above the base. 
The drawing was taken towards the end of autumn from 
a plant that flowered in the conservatory of Mr. Griffin, at 
South Lambeth, where the bulb had been recently received 
from abroad. We never saw it growing in any other 
collection. 
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SPECIES. 
spiralis. nob. in Curtis's magaz. tab. 1383. 
rubella. Jacq. ic. rar. tab. 358. 
stellaris. nob. AMARYLLIS. Jacq. hort. schanb. tab. 71. 
crispa. nob. in Curtis’s magaz. tab. 1363. 
mmata, nob. in Curtis’s magaz. tab. 1620. 
undulata. Jacq. ic. rar. tab. 360. 
lingueefolia. Jacq. ic. rar. tab. 356. 
truncata. Jacq. ic. rar. tab. 357- 
angustifolia. Jacq. ic. rar. tab. 359. 
filifolia. Supra. 
