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AMARYLLIS laticoma. 
Prince Leopold's Amaryllis. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 64. Div. IT. Germen inférum. 
AMARYLLIDEZ. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. I. 
AMARYLLIS. Supra vol.3. fol. 226, 
Div. VI. Corolla hexapetalo-partite, subrotate. Folia bifaria. Nobis in 
Journ. arts and seien. 2; 362. 
A. laticoma, foliis lineari-loratis, scape plano seabro,. pedunculis strictis ro- 
bustis triquetris hispidis divaricatis duplo longioribus flore. 
Bulbus ovato-oblongus, magnitudine ovi anatini v. circitèr, tegminibus 
Sibroso-membranaceis multiplicibus fuscescentibus. Folie bifaria, recumben- 
tia, subsena, lorata, lenta, longiora scapo latitudine $ uncie v. circitór mar- 
gine alterno sinistrorsum et dextrorsum subfalcatim flexa, obtusa, î 
lucida. Scapus viridissimus, complanatus, sub9uncialis latitudine subse- 
munciali v. magis, tuberculato-scaber, erectus. Umbella multi- (17)-flóra, 
ordine triplo alterna, remota, divaricata, hemispherica, ramentis bracte- 
aceis: spatha bivalvis, sphacelata, subrosea, ter brevior pedunculis, valvis lan- 
ceolatis refractis: pedunc. stricti, robustissimi, triquetri, pube brevi glan- 
dulosá hispidá cinerascentes, 4-unciales. Cor. nutans, roseo-alba, inodora, 
sexpartita, irregularis, turbinato-rotata; laciniis omnibus collaterali-ascen- 
dentibus v. nunc und remotá genitalibus subtensd, subequalibus angustiüs 
ligulatis albis cum lined rosed medio-longitudinali, inferne versus convoluto- 
wnguiculatis, conniventibus, brevissim? connexis, supernè recurvis, non un- 
dulatis, 2 lineas latis v. circitér, acutis. Stam. declinato-assurgentia, co- 
rolle æqualia, alternè longiora, 3 præcociora: fil. rosea fundo brevissimè 
tubuloso corolle adnata: anth. oblonga, vibratiles, atropurpurez, polline 
ochroleuco. Germ. oblato-rotundum, rubido-virescens, subtrilobum; loculi 
pleni, biseriato-subpentaspermi, ovula globosa; stylus albus, stamina subex- 
superans: stig. patens, pruinosum, 3-fidum lobulis rotundatii. 
An unrecorded and singular species, by which the trans- 
ition from Amaryiiis to Brunsvicra is rendered still nar- 
rower than by AvanvLus flexuosa of the 172d article of this 
publication, which we once deemed the probable connecting 
link of the two genera at one point. Laticoma has the fructifi- 
cation of AmaryLLIs and the herb of Brunsvicia. The rough 
flat stem and proportionately massive three-cornered pe- 
duncles are anomalies in the genus. The leaves are not blis- 
téred nor the segments of the corolla undulate as in flexuosa. 
The bulb came from the Cape of Good Hope, and 
flowered, most probably for the first time in Europe, in the 
collection of H. R. H. Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg, at 
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