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AMARYLLIS crocata. 



Reflex-floivcred Amaryllis. 



HEXANDRIA MONOQYNIA 



AM All YLLIS. Supra fol 23. 



A. crocata, spatha bivalvi, pluriflora, pedicellis subaequali ; corolla ]ii- 

 aequali, nutante, divaricato-ringente, tubo germen vix aequante ; lacinia 

 summa remota, partim reflexa, lateralibus cunctis in imam dttlexam 8c 

 duplo angustiorem obliquantibus : fauce tubi inula. 



Bulbus tectus membranis pallido-fuscis. Folia plura, bifaria, recurva, 

 lorato-lonceolata fine obtuso-attenuato, striata insterstitiis per Uneolas trans- 

 versus interruptas cancellatis, subsesquipedalia duasqae uncias ad summum 

 lata, nee glanca. Scopus glaucissimus, bipedalis, columnaris crassitudine 

 digiti majoris, teres, basi purpurascens. Spatha (in prcesenti specimine) 4- 

 flora, lanceolata, citb exarescens, reflexa, striata. fedunculi erecti, biun- 

 dales, obtuse triquetru Germ, viride, oblongitm, obtuse trigonum, tubo 

 crassius et fere longius ; loculi oxmlis Jceti numerosis compresso-cumulatis* 

 Cor. miniato-crocata, vents simplicibus parallelis striata, subquadriuncialis ; 

 infer ne breviter in tubum virentem imbricato- connata ; faux brevis, amplius 

 turbinata, intus stellata radiis senis subrhomboideo-lanceolatis flavo-virentibus ; 

 limbus radiato-recurvus; laciniae ovali-lanceolatce, subundulatce exteriores trims 

 latiores, hamato-mncronatcE, suprema in labium summum procul segregata, 

 laterales duce superiores horizontaliter divergentes, oppositce, muticce, latere 

 utroqite replicato-undulatce, infima omnium angustior, elongato-oblonga, apicc 

 rotundata. Stam. declinato-assurgentia, alterne longiora, corolla J circiter 

 breviora : fil. fy stylus rubent. Stigmata prqfundiiis discreta, linear i-teretia, 

 pbtusa, alba. 



The same collection which two months ago enahl 



A 



to 



f 



per 



in 



P 



su- 



to the fo 



It 



said to have been 



found in the Brazils by Mr. E 

 the way of Lisbon by Mr. G 

 in the dry-stove of his garde 



bv 



with whom 



fl 



South Lambeth in May 



last 



fi 



Independent of other pe 



it is at once dis- 



ished by 



kably insulated upper middle seg- 



of its corolla, farther removed ft 

 lateral ones than in any species we can recollect, 



fi 



the uppe 



of the flower ; 



be said to consist of the r 

 towards the lower middle 



four of 



under-lip may 



hich does not project 



r^ 



