This perfectly new Linum is by far the most showy of the genus, and illumines all the gloomy months of winter with its fine large flowers, whose brilliance is not often surpassed even in the height of summer, when Flora reigns with undiminished lustre. It has been hitherto regarded as a hot-house plant, but is now found to succeed much better with the careful treatment of the green-house. It is published by Capt. Hardwicke in his enumeration of the plants of Sireenagur in the Asiatic Annual Register of 1800, and was found by that gentleman on the sides of the mountains in fine bloom in the month of December, and from whom it received the specific title of trigynum. Its provincial name is said to be Gul Ashorfee; from Gul a flower and Ashorfee gold, a coin current in India of the value of 2_l._ sterling. There is a figure of this Linum in the Exotic Botany of Dr. Smith, copied from a drawing, and represented with deeply serrated leaves; a character very different from any of the living plants we have as yet seen in bloom, not one of them exhibiting the slightest vestige of a serrature on their foliage. Our figure was made from a plant in luxuriant bloom at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Brames. [Illustration] PLATE CCCCL. ALBUCA FASTIGIATA. _Level-topped Albuca._ CLASS VI. ORDER I. _HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives. One Pointal. GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX nullus. COROLLA hexapetala; tribus interioribus conniventibus, exterioribus patulis. STAMINA. Filamenta sex, apice inflexa, basi dilatata. Antheræ oblongæ, in medio affixæ. Stylus triqueter. Stigma triquetrum. PERICARPIUM. Capsula oblonga, angulata, 3-locularis, 3-valvis. SEMINA numerosa, plana. OBS. In quibusdam speciebus tria stamina sterilia sunt. EMPALEMENT none. BLOSSOM. Six petals; the three inner ones conniving together, the outer ones spreading. CHIVES. Six threads turned inwards at the points, and widened at the base. Tips oblong, and fastened in the centre. Shaft three-sided. Summit three-cornered. SEED-VESSEL. Capsule oblong, angular, 3-celled, 3-valved. SEEDS many, flat. OBS. In some species three of the stamens are sterile. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. ALBUCA foliis lanceolato-ensiformibus: floribus erectis, paniculatis, fastigiatis, pedunculis longissimis: corollis albis, in medio lineâ viridi: petalis interioribus apice fornicatis, stamina includentibus, quæ sunt omnia fertilia. ALBUCA with leaves between lance-and sword-shaped: flowers upright, and grow paniculated and level: footstalks very long: blossoms white, with a stripe of green in the centre; the inner petals forming an arch at the end, and enclosing the stamens, which are all fertile. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. One of the flower-props. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. One of the outer chives. 4. One of the inner ones. 5. Seed-bud and pointal.