2. The Seed-bud, with part of the tube of the Blossom and partial Fruit-stalk. This fine Lily, from the Brazils, can scarcely be thought more than a variety of A. Reginæ; to which plant, both this, and the A. equestris of Mr. Curtis, may be referred without much flexion of the original species. We have, however, preserved the title under which it has been known since its introduction; which was, in the year 1798, by the late Marchioness of Bute, from Spain. Our drawing was taken from a plant in the collection of J. Vere, Esq. Kensington Gore, in the month of October, 1803. It has all the merits of the most easily cultivated species of the genus; increasing freely by the bulb, growing with luxuriance in almost any earth, and requiring but little heat to make it flower. [Illustration] PLATE CCCLIX. TAGETES LUCIDA. _Sweet Chili Marygold._ CLASS XIX. ORDER II. _SYNGENESIA POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA._ Tips united. Superfluous Pointals. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX _communis_ simplicissimus, monophyllus, tubulosus, oblongus, pentagonus, quinquedentatus. COROLLA _composita_ radiata; corollulæ hermaphroditæ tubulosæ, plures in disco elevato; femineæ ligulatæ quinque in radio. _Propria hermaphroditis_ tubulosa, semiquinquefida, erecta, calyce longior; laciniis linearibus, introrsum villosis. _Femineis_ ligulata, hermaphrodites longior, longitudine et latitudine fere æqualis, obtusissima, versus tubum angustior, tomentosa persistens. STAMINA Hermaphroditis; filamenta quinque, capillaria, brevissima. Anthera cylindracea, tubulosa. PISTILLUM _Hermaphroditis_; Germen oblongum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine staminum. Stigma bifidum, tenue, reflexum. _Femineis_; germen oblongum. Stylus filiformis, longitudine hermaphroditis. Stigma bifidum, tenue, reflexum. PERICARPIUM nullum. Calyx immutatus. SEMINA Hermaphroditis solitaria, linearia, compressa, calyce paulo breviora. Pappus aristis quinque, erectis, acuminatis, inæqualibus. _Femineis_ similima hermaphrodites. RECEPTACULUM nudum, planum. EMPALEMENT _common_, quite simple, one leaf, tubular, oblong, five-sided, five-toothed. BLOSSOM, _compound_ raised; hermaphrodite florets tubular, numerous in an elevated center; females tongue-shaped five in the circumference. _Proper_ of the _Hermaphrodites_, tubular, half five-cleft, upright, longer than the cup; segments linear, hairy within. Of the _Females_ tongue-shaped longer than the hermaphrodites, of nearly the same length and breadth, very blunt, narrower towards the tube, downy, remaining. CHIVES of the Hermaphrodites; five threads, hair-like, very short. Tip cylindric, tubular. POINTAL of the _Hermaphrodites_; seed-bud oblong. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the chives. Summit two-cleft, slender, reflexed. Of the _Females_; seed-bud oblong. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the hermaphrodite. Summit two-cleft, slender, reflexed. SEED-VESSEL none. Cup unchanged.