No Genus of Plants claims our notice, for its beauty, more than Geranium, and this species, certainly, ranks amongst the foremost. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, and we believe only to be found in the Clapham Collection; where, our figure was taken in April this year, from a plant, the bulb or root of which had been received the preceding autumn. It is nearly the only one, amongst twenty-two species of the tuberous kind, all having irregular petalled blossoms and tubular cups, of which we possess drawings, that has seven fertile chives; the greater number have two, four, or five. It appears to flourish under the treatment given it by Mr. Allen, which is, by keeping it in sandy peat, on a shelf, very dry, in the green-house. The propagation appears to be the same for this, as the other tuberous kinds, that is, by the root. [Illustration] PLATE CLXIX. CRINUM GIGANTEUM. _Gigantic Asphodel-Lily._ CLASS VI. ORDER I. _HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA supra, infundibuliformis, sexpartita, æqualis; filamenta tubi fauci inserta; semina ad basin corollarum, vivipara. BLOSSOM above, funnel-shaped, six-parted, equal; threads inserted into the mouth of the tube; seeds at the base of the blossoms, viviparous. See CRINUM SPIRALE, Pl. XCII. Vol. II. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Crinum foliis flaccidis, undulatis; floribus sessilibus, umbellatis; petalis concavis, subalbidis. Asphodel-Lily with flaccid, waved leaves; flowers sitting close to the flower stem in umbels; petals concave, nearly white. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A miniature representation of the whole plant. 2. A Petal with its chive. 3. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit.