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AMARYLLIS australasica. 



New Holland Amaryllis. 



HEXANDRIA MQNQQYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Narcissi. Jussieu gen. 54-. Biv* XL 



Amarylmde^u Brown prod. U 296. Sect. L 

 AMAR YLLIS. Suprh vol. 3.fol. 226. 



Biv* Bi-muUiflora; tubo nudo. Folia bifaria. Nob. in journ. of scien. and 



the arts. 2. 356. 



A. au$trala$ica f rnultiflora; foliis Jineari-loratis; corolla infundibultformi, 



limbo nutante subbilabiato* laciniis lanceolate $uba?qualibus, recurro- 



dietantibus, tubo ttiquetro subaequilongis; peduncuLis genuine pluri£s 



longioribus, tubo corollas isoperimetris v. crasdoribus. 



Bulb us tunicatus. Folia plura, angusto*lorata 9 acumnato*attenuata> 



convoluto<anaticulata 9 erectO'recurve, JlexUia^ cequalia s$apa v. longiora* 



8 pat ha acuminata, sublongior pedunculis. Flores Jragrantes f candidi, ivA- 



sesunciales; pedunculi rotundate trigoni, pallide virentes f erectly robusin 



Germ, viride, oblongum, pluries brevius peduncuto: tubus pallida wrens t 



triqueter 9 den$<} striates, Uneari'elongatus, subtriuncialis, crassitudine dnplA 



penna? corvinee v. circd ; limbus turbtnato*campanitlatus 9 albus> subtriundalu 



Jauce itttusjlavescensy laciniis -| uncice lath n>. circh> superriS recurvts, acumi- 



natis 9 disco externi virentibus carinatisque, lateralibus labii inferioris suban- 



gustioribus lineari4anceolatis. FJL laxuis Ja$dculata f dedinato~atsurgentia 9 



albida y limbo ex und quatid parte breviora, gracilut, alterne longiora. StyJus 



subexsertus, albidus $ crassitudine Jeri filamentorum, obtuse triqueter, tristri' 



atusi stigmata obsolete trina v. in unum coadunata. Capsula, ex statu in* 



teraneo germinis conject antes 9 bulbuperma? 



A newly discovered species, which has flowered this 

 summer for the first time in our gardens. The knowledge 

 oj it is due to a late expedition into the western interior 

 of New Holland, in the course of which the plant was found 

 under Macqttarie Range in E, longitude about 146, and 

 about 33 of S. latitude, a region not long since deemed in- 

 accessible from the side of the Colony/ 



The drawing was taken from a plant that flowered in 

 Mr. Barnard's hothouse at Bexley; where the Calostemma 

 purpureurn had likewise blossomed in great perfection. No 

 other species of this genus has been yet observed in all 

 Australasia. 



Bulb tunicate. Leaves several, narrowly lorate, acu- 

 minately tapered, convolutely channelled, upright, recurved 

 vol, v. z 



