tour's river. Approaches AMARYLLIs by the vittata of that 
genus. 
Ledf upright, linear, glaucous, scarcely more than a 
line broad. Scape round, as thick as a wheaten straw, about 
seven inches in height, glaucous, reddish below. Spathe 
of two narrow tapered leaflets, twice longer than the.pe- 
duncle. Germen oblong, linear, obtusely trigonal. Flower 
nutant, whitish and hexangularly marked with six vertical 
narrow eguidistant crimson stripes, about two inches long, 
and nearly of twice the diameter of a swan-guill: tube of a 
dusky red, about equal to the germen, slender; faur equal 
to the limb or longer; segmenis patent, ovate, somewhat 
acute, with a vertical middle nerve inwardly prominent. 
Filaments scarcely reaching beyond the faux, short, in- 
curvately connivent: anthers yellow incumbent. Style red; 
stigmas red patent. 
The drawing was taken this summer at Mr. Burchell's, 
Fulham. 
