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AMARYLLIS acuminata 



Suenos jlyres Amaryllis. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Naecissi. Jvssieu gen, 54. Div. II. 



AMARYLLiDE.ffi> Browti prod. 1. 206. Sect. I. 

 AMARYLLIS. Supri vol. &. fol. 226; uU in semmvm charactere 

 pott " gtobosa" wueri potest " modbque baccata." 



iv. Bi-mvltiflora ; tvho nvdo ; foliit Hfariit. 

 A. acuminato, pluri (4)-f)ora; foliis lorato-eloag;atis, supra pulvisculo cano 

 opacatis; germine subaequante tubum; coroUs ringentis laciniis 3 sum- 

 mis rhombeo-laaceolatis, acuminum productorum lateribus rectis undu- 

 latis. 



Bulbus subrotundus magnitudine feri oui attserint, tvnicis jvsds. Fol. 

 phtra, mhcoriaceo-Jirma, lato-ligulata, sesquipedalia ultrdve tatitudine sttb- 

 triunciali, suprd nimbum tenuem canum vtrore subobscuro translucentta, bre- 

 vity acuminata, infrd paltidiora nitida. Scapus cylmdraceus, robustus, 

 giaucus, sesquipedalis, ban purpuraacens. Flores nutantes, miniato-micantes, 

 &-uncialeSf subtessellato-maculosi : pedunculi obtusi trigoni, ttricti, subun~ 

 dales. Germ, viride, obhmgum rotunduti trigcnvm; orula nvmerosa bise- 

 riato-cnmulata ptano-compressa. Corollae tubus intaminatw, semuneialit; 

 iwix stellS notafa (a\^d« congenerU proximioris viridiore, turbinata: ceetera 

 feri fulgidfe supr^ vol 3. tab. 226. videnda. 



This fine plant flowered in January last at South Lam- 

 beth, the bulb having been obtained by Mr. Griffin, directly 

 from Buenos Ayres ; and cultivated in the bark-bed of his 

 hothouse. It belongs, as well as we can judge, to an un- 

 recorded species, and ranks in the same section of the genus 

 with fulgida and crocata, previously introduced by Mr. 

 Griffin, and already published in this work; from both of 

 which, however, though very nearly akin, it diiFers markedly, 

 by a greyishly clouded foliage, and by the 3 upper segments 

 of the corolla being of a rhomboidally lanceolate form, and 

 long-pointed with straightly edged curled sides tapering all 

 the way from near the middle. The leaves are much longer 

 and of a darker green than those oi fulgida, the corolla 

 faintly chequered and of a pinker or paler salmon-red. 



Bulb as large as a goose's e^^ with brown integuments. 

 Leaves thickish and firm, lorate (broadly linear), shortly 

 pointed, a foot and a half long, and in the present sample 



