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AMARYLLIS calyptrata. 
Green-flowered Amaryllis, 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Nancissi. Jussieu gen. 54. Dio. II. Germen ín. 
ferum. 
AMARYLLIDEE. Brown prod. 996. Sect, I. Radix 
bulbosa. Flores spathacei, raró solitarii. 
AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 93, 
Div. bi-multiflore, tubo coronato. Folia bifaria. 
A. calyptrata, biflora, semiringens; foliis plurimis; tubo coronato 
membranâ brevi decolori integerrimâ. | 
Folia coriaceo-firma erecto-patentia, lorato-lanceolata, 2} pedes longa, 
sesgui v. 2 uncias lata, non glauca, clathrato-venosa, costá media canalicu- 
lata et carinata, deorsim attenuata rigida involuta, sursàm planiuscula longà 
acuminata, acuta, Scapus (modo plures successivi) parüm brevior folis, 
robustus, rectus, cylindraceo-attenuatus, levissima compressus, glaucus, estri- 
atus, infern? purpurascens. Spatha bivalvis, membranosa, striatula. Flores 
maximi, diutini, subflavido-virentes, nutantes, pedunculati, 5-unciales, ab imo 
pedunculo ad summa stigmata usque 9-unciales, bis altiores spathâ; pedunculi 
calamum crassi, subeguales germini v. pore longiores, virentes, rotundata 
trigoni. Germ. obesius pedunculo, unciale, obsolete pulvinato-trilobum, levis, 
exsulcum, non glaucum. Cor? rictus transversim latior; tubus germiné 
subisoperimeter, rectus, cylindraceus, obsolete triangularis, intensiüs virens, 
bis brevior limbo + limbus 6-partitus, infrà imbricatus, chloroleusus, clathrato» 
venosus, laciniis subegualibus,. lanceolatis, acutis, versus marginem pallidi- 
oribus, undulatis, exterioribus 3 dorso ibbosioribus, cariná saturate virenti- 
bus, inflezis, mucrone compressá, interioribus disco lanioribus involutis Tê» 
flexis, summa media arcuatá, antrorsúm depressá, lateribus reflezá, laterali- 
bus ejus binis divaricato-recurvis, sublatioribus, sursŵm obliquatis ; inferiori- 
bus 3 inter se equalibus prostantioribus, lateralibus 2 mediam summam referen- 
libus, imá medi laterales 2 summas. Corona faucialis ore triangulosê 
contracta. Stam. exserta, fasciculata, declinato-assurgentia ; fil. robusta, tereti- 
trigona, subulato-attenuata, rubore lurido obsoletà varia: anth. violacea, pol- 
line flavo. Stylus staminum concolor, longior atque crassior: stig. revoluta, 
The present is the fourth unrecorded species of the 
genus made known in this work, and the introduction of 
which is due to Mr. Griffin. The hyacinthina of the fas- 
ciculus for the preceding month, was the first evidence of 
an Axanyrns with a blue flower; the present the first of 
one with a green flower, Until their appearance amongst 
us, an AMARYLLIS of either of these colours T LIT 
chimaera, Calyptrata is moreover remarkable in navi the 
membrane which crowns the orifice of the tube and sur- 
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