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— AMARYLLIS flexuosa. 
Pustulous-leaved Amaryllis. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord,  Nancissi. Jussieu gen. 54. Dio. II. Germen im 
N ferum. ` 
NU AMARYLLDEE. Brown prod. 996. Sect. I. Radix 
: > ‘bulbosa. Flores spathacei, umbellati, rard solitarii. . 
AMARYLLIS. Vide supra vol. 1. fol. 23. , 
i. Dio. Hexapetalo-partite: subrotata. Folia bifaria. 
A. flexuosa, spatha pauciflora; foliis loratis angustis obtusulis minutâ' 
pustuloso-punctatis; limbi laciniis recurvo-divaricatis undulatis, unâ 
fasciculo declinato staminum subtensâ, remotá. Nod. de amar. in 
Journ. of scien. and the arts, v. 2. p. 305. n. 89. 
Amaryllis exuosa. Jacq. hort. schenb. 1. 35. t. 67. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 
GO. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 229. 
Undulata minor multiflora ; humilis major pluriflora; flexuosa mazima 
pauciflora: ceterum inter se persimiles. FA folia modó pedalia, semun- 
ciam lata, subtis pallentia et conspicuis pustulata.  Scapus bipedalis, modd 
calamum crassus. Umbella laza, pedunculis strictis, fragilibus, longioribus 
spathâ subrosed lanceolatá sphacelatá. Cor. rosea, laciniis tantitm ex disco 
incrassato cennexis, ceterum distantibus. Stigmata fria, feplicata, rubra,’ 
puberula. Germen loculis suboctospermis. Capsula bulbisperma, Viz cone 
stanter? , Bulbus indusiis membrano-fibrosis, plex intergerino Fibrarum bom- 
bycino atque ductili. Nob. in loc. cit. 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Introduced by 
Mr. Masson in 1795. It is extremely difficult to define 
any distinctions between this species, humilis, and undulata, 
which do not resolve into difference of size and its conse- 
quences. In ffezuósa the leaves are twice or thrice broader 
than in humilis, and the whealy or pustulous efflorescence 
which covers them is more conspicuous, but that is all. In 
humilis the same appearance is more prominent than in un- 
dulata, where the foliage is the narrowest of the three. In 
each the undulate segments of the corolla converge towards 
the upper middle one, forming a semicircularly radiated 
lip, the lowermost middle one sometimes keeping its posi- 
tion under the style, sometimes slanting away from it with 
the others. The seeds in all are with us small green succu- 
lent roundish bulblike masses but more numerous in 
flecuosa than in the other two. They may be distinct 
species, and probably are, but ye confess ourselves unable 
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