from Bahia in the Brazils, by the gentleman whose liberal " 
exertions in favour of Botany are intended to be commemo- 
rated by the generic name. It flowered last autumn in the 
hothouse at South Lambeth. 
The principal points by which Grirrinia is distinguished 
from AmaryLLis, are, the having one stamen which assumes 
' a different direction from the other five; a germen in which 
every cell contains two upright parallel ovula affixed to 
its lower corner; and by the petioled prominently ribbed 
foliage. : 
In a plant of Grirrinta hyacinthina, that flowered last 
summer at Mr. Griflin’s, we were made to observe a thick 
brownish crenulated cartilaginous ridge or margin that ran 
along opposite sides of the scape, overlooked by. us when we 
described the plant, and of which there is no appearance 
in G. parviflora. If this circumstance is constant, and we 
have been assured it is, it forms a curious specific mark. 
Bulb in parviflora tunicated and about the size of a 
pigeon’s egg. Leaves 2-3 much smaller than those in hya- 
cinthina; petiole transversely compressed and two-edged ; 
blade ovally lanceolate. Scape cylindrical, compressed. 
Spathe sphacelate, reflexed, valves lanceolate; wmbel many- 
flowered, stalked. Corolla of a very pale violet colour, 
| turbinately rotate, scarcely above 4 of an inch long: tube 
| continuous with the germen and of the same diameter and 
| colour, many times shorter than the limb: segments of the 
limb nearly uniform, 5 forming the upper lip, a single one 
the lower; the whole of them spatulately lanceolate, three 
(i outer ones tipped with a distinct point (mucronate), 3 upper 
ae ones deeper coloured and nearer to one another, the upper 
| middlemost one rather the broadest, two lateral ones wider 
ee _spread, the lowermost one of all much smaller and paler 
| than any. Stamens almost twice shorter than the limb: 
Jiaments of a diluted violet colour, taperingly filiform. 
Germen ovally oblong, shining: style nearly the colour of 
the filaments, straighter than them, subulately filiform, 3- 
cornered stiff; stigma a simple smooth terminating point. 
We are to thank Mr. Brown for the description of the 
seed of this genus; the nature of which had been miscon- 
ived until the present subject was submitted to the test 
of his acetrate and skilful investigation. 
