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AMARYLLIS aurea. . 
Golden Amaryllis. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Narcıssı. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum. 
AMARYLLIDEX. Brown prod. 1. 296, Sect. J. 
AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 226. 
Div. IV. Bi-multiflore. Corolle tubus coronatus. Folia bifaria. Nobis 
in journ. of scien. and the arts. 2. 356. 
A. aurea, multiflora; corolla tubo brevi, corona brevissimá crenato-repanda 
sub summo filamento interrupta; limbo undulato, fauce subtüs ventricosá, 
genitalibus exsertis, stigmate rubicundo. 
Amaryllis aurea.  L’Hérit. sert. angl. 14. Curtis's magaz. 409. Jacq. hort. 
scheenb. 1. 38. t. 73. Willd. sp. pl. 2.57. Redouté liliac. 61. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2. 2. 227. Nobis in journ. of scien. and the arts. 2. 362. 
Amaryllis africana. Lamarck encyc. 1. 124. 
Lycoris aurea. Herbert append. 20; tab. (absque no.), fig. (absque no.); 
ubi pollen super stylum aspersum pro efflorescentiá aliquá venditatur. 
Bulbus subrotundus, integumentis fuligineo-fuscis. Fol. plura, lorata, 
glauca, canaliculata, acuminata, carinata, sesqui-bipedalia latitudine vix 
unciali. Scapus glauciusculus, bipedalis, teres, obsoletè anceps, strictus, 
crassitudine digiti vel eirca. Spatha arescens, floribus brevior, lanceolata, 
3-10 flora, reflexa: pedunc. obesi, trigoni, virentes, unciá breviores, in- 
«quales, bracteis interstineti. Cor. flava, nutans, subtriuncialis, p 
liformis: tubus germine longior, subtrilinearis, viridi-flavescens, obtuse an- 
gulosus, rectus, intüs coronatus serlo extrastamineo brevissimo intensiús 
flavescente | nitido (sub lente  vesiculoso-puncticulato) crenato-repando, 
sub filamento summo interrupto; limbus 6-partitus, subbilabiato-obliquus, 
infra in faucem anticè ventricosam tubo 3-4-plo longiorem laxiús connivens, 
supernè recurvus: lacinie lineari-lanceolate, undulate, acuminate, mucro - 
nate, subæquales, dorso secús medium costato-virentes, labii inferioris late- 
rales 2 paulo latiores divaricatiores obsoletiüs undulate, ab ima mediá ceteris 
porrectiore recedentes. Fil. exserta, declinato-assurgentia, inaequalia, flavo- 
pallentia, subulato-filiformia: anth. flave, lineari-oblonge, vibratiles, è 
minoribus; pollen granulosum, granulis oblongis. Stylus directione formá 
et colore filumentorum, robustior vero atque longior (4-uncialis v. ultra) 
supra glaber denud torquendus, apice rubicundus ; stigma (nunc in 3 secedens ) 
continuum villosum. Germ. viride globoso-ovatum rotundaté trigonum, locu- 
lamentis infernè biseriato-A-spermis, superné vacuis, angulo intimo obtusi- 
usculo lutescente ; ovula alba, opaca, obovata, pressione subdeformata, ime 
loculamenti parli affixa, subimbricato-adscendentia. Semina nobis ignota. 
In a species which has been long observed and has at- 
tracted a great deal of attention, we did not expect to find 
that so remarkable an appendage as the crown of the tube 
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