drawing was made in May, from a plant in the possession 
of Sir Abraham’Hume. e have seen others in the collec- 
tion of the Horticultural Society, to whom they had been 
presented by Don Mariano La Gasca. 
When our drawing of this species was made, we had 
not seen the flower in its most perfect state. Since the 
figure was in the hands of the engraver, we have had an 
opportunity of examining the plant under the influence of 
bright sunshine, and we find that the flowers then expand 
quite as much as in Zephyranthes rosea. : 
Bulb the size of a pigeon’s egg, blackish brown. Leaves 3, 
4, or 6 inches long, erect, linear, quite smooth on each 
side, rounded, but somewhat acute at the end, bright green, 
a little tinged with red towards the base. Scape, together 
with the flower, a foot high, round, hollow, smooth, bright 
green, coloured at base, l-flowered. lower seated on a 
nearly erect peduncle an inch and half long. Spatha shorter 
than the peduncle, 1-leaved, half-split, the part above the 
opening entire, spreading with involute edges. Perianth fun- 
nel-shaped, 3 inches long, bright pink, the limb in the sun- 
shine opening nearly flat; lower part of the tube pale 
green; segments oval, nearly equal, divided almost as far 
as the middle of the flower; the outer lapping over the 
inner, their edges being distinct almost as far as the base. 
Stamens included, much shorter than perianth, inserted 
into the throat of the tube, not declinate, but spreading 
equally. Anthers linear, versatile. Ovary short, three- 
cornered, three-celled, with many ovules packed in two 
rows one above the other. Style filiform, declinate, clavate 
upwards, longer than the anthers, shorter than the perianth. 
Stigma three-lobed, thick, with recurved lobes. 
J. L. 
