. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. and it is not fastidious as to Auvergne Lungwort was, I believe, intro-duced some years ago by Messrs. James Back-hous3 & Sons, of York, but is now in the handsof a few other nurserymen. I have had it in mygarden for four or five years, and find it perfectlyhardy. Though not among the choicest springflowers, it is a little plant which ought to meetwith eome recognition. 8. Arnott, Carsethorn-hy-Dumfries, CYRTANTHUS IN^QUALIS, n. sj).*In January, 1904, there flowered in thenm-series of Me
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. and it is not fastidious as to Auvergne Lungwort was, I believe, intro-duced some years ago by Messrs. James Back-hous3 & Sons, of York, but is now in the handsof a few other nurserymen. I have had it in mygarden for four or five years, and find it perfectlyhardy. Though not among the choicest springflowers, it is a little plant which ought to meetwith eome recognition. 8. Arnott, Carsethorn-hy-Dumfries, CYRTANTHUS IN^QUALIS, n. sj).*In January, 1904, there flowered in thenm-series of Messrs. Wm. Cutbush & Son atBarnet a Cyrtanthus, three bulbs of which hadbeen collected by the Messrs. Cutbiishs sisterin the neighbourhood of Georgetown, CapeColony. More than one expert in Amaryllideiemistook it for Cyrtanthus angustifolius grandi-florus (Baker), but on the inflorescence beingsubmitted to me I at once pronounced it to be anew species, its chief distinguishing featuresbeing the more or less erect habit of the flowers,the larger perianth-segments, and especially the. Fio. no. (1) INFLOREeCKNCE, LEAF, AND SINGLE FLOWER OF CTBTANTHrs , A NEW SPECIES ; tOLOUE OF FLOWKRS COEAL-BED. (2) INFLOnESCENCE AND LEAF OF L\ ANGUSTIFOLIUS ORANDI-FLORUS ; COLOUR OF FLOWEKS SCAELET-EED. {Drawn jrwn livwg specimens by Alice L, OBrien, andmucli reduced.) peculiar manner in which the upper threeassociate and form a pent-house over the stigmaand anthers, which are not protruded, as in mostmembers of the Monella section of sent a drawing of the inflorescence to a friendin S. Africa, who fell into the same error as othershad done, and taking it for C. angustifolius grandi-florus, sent to the Tulbagh district of Cape * ( l/rtmtihui i)t:v<inaUs, n. sp.—Bulb globose, 1J iach indiameter, prolouged into a neck 1 inch in i-3 contemporary with the flowers, i foot ormore in lengtli, linear, narrowest at the base, where theyare almost triangular, keel
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