ti7 liad not been ascertained; but it is now however known, 

 from Dr. Roxburgh's manuscripts, to belong to China ; and 

 by a native sample in the Lambertian Herbarium to Japan. 

 It comes very near to Amaryllis undulata of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



At Messrs. Colvill's nurseiy in the King's Road, Chelsea, 

 where the drawing was taken, the plant had been made to 

 flower by being kept during the first part of the summer in 

 tlie hothouse and then plunged into a common hot-bed. The 

 bulbs are apt to break down into numerous offsets, while 

 the outer coat remains entire, so that they appear like one 

 bulb with numerous leaves; a closer inspection however 

 shows that they consist of several bulbs with 3 leaves to 

 each bulb. 



Leaves' nhont 3, bifarious, linearly ligulate, channelled, 

 about f an inch wide, of a dark glaucously clouded green, 

 channel greener than the sides, obtuse. Scape cotemporary 

 with the leaves, round, slightly compressed from 7 inches to a 

 foot and a half high. Spathe sphacelate, 4-5-flowered, se- 

 veral times longer than the peduncles : peduncles green, firm, 

 obsoletely angular, several times shorter than the flowers, 

 which have no smell. Corolla semiform, facing the hori- 

 zon, of a glittering rose-red, nearly 3 inches in diameter, 

 divaricately radiant, equal: tube green, extremely short, 

 almost none, bent downwards, cylindrical, compressed, 

 nearly of the calibre of the germen : limb 6-parted, either of 

 one upper lip or sometimes with a very disproportionate 

 lower one, segments apart from each other, linearly ligulate, 

 about 2 lines broad or thereabout, curled, channelled, mu- 

 cronate, recurved towards the top, with a green keel along 

 the back; all either converging towards the upper middle 

 one into a semicircularly radiant upper lip, or else with the 

 middle lower one remaining alone below the stamens for an 

 under lip. Filaments declinedly assurgent, of the same 

 colour as the corolla, but nearly as long again, pointing 

 forwards and diverging, firm, subulately elongated, inserted 

 at the mouth of the tube: anthers small, oblong, balan- 

 cing, deep red, with yellow pollen. Sti/le of the same shape 

 and colour as the filaments, but thicker and longer 

 inches or more in length) : stigma a simple frosted whitisli 

 point. Germen green, round and triply protuberant, with 

 several (4?) globular ovules in two rows in each cell. 



