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ZEPHYRANTHES rosea. 
Rose-coloured Zephyranthes. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDE®. 
ZEPHYRANTHES Herbert. Perianthium verticale, infundibulare, 
equale. Stamina regularia, uno (seepius) sejuncto, basi sepalorum inserta. 
Anthere adnate. Stylus declinatus. Semina plana, membranacea. Testä 
atrà.— Plante Occidentales; foliis linearibus, scapis 1-2 floris cum foliis pro- 
venientibus. 
Z. rosea, foliis humifusis linearibus scapo unifloro brevioribus, perianthio ex- 
panso: sepalis ovalibus apiculatis, spatha bifida apice carnosa. 
Cespitosa. Folia plurima, perennia, linearia, humifusa, plana, glabra, 
striata, apice rotundata, scapi longitudine v. breviora. Scapus (cum flore ) 
semipedalis, compressus, glaber. Spatha 1-flora, biloba, glabra, rubescens, 
lobis apice viridibus carnosis. Pedunculus 11 uncialis, teres, spathá duplo 
longior, strictus. Perianthium roseum, regulare, erectum, infundibulare, 
sepalis rotato-patentibus, ovalibus, apiculatis, infrà medium viridibus, ad 
basin fere liberis, interioribus angustioribus. Stamina regularia, equalia, 
in basin sepalorum inserta, iisque breviora. Antheræ adnate, lineares, erecta. 
Ovarium parvum, subrotundum, 3-loculare, ovulis distichis, indefinitis (12). 
Stylus declinatus, validus, teres, sepalorum ferè longitudine. Stigma 3-lo- 
bum, lobis patentibus: superficie stigmaticá minute glandulosá. Semina .... 
This beautiful bulbous plant was found at the Havannah 
by Mr. George Don, and brought home by him, in 1823, 
for the Horticultural Society; in whose garden it flowered, 
for the first time, in June last. It is a greenhouse plant, of 
easy culture and propagation. The delicate rose-coloured 
blossoms, which are produced in abundance at a time when 
little similar is in flower, render it a valuable addition to 
our collections. We have heard of a rose-coloured Z. tu- 
bispatha being in the gardens of Paris. Can it be this? 
The name Zephyranthes was first proposed by Mr. Her- 
bert (Appendix, p. 36), for a generic appellation of a small 
group of Amaryllideous plants, of which A. Atamasco and 
tubispatha are the true species. It appears to us that these 
have been separated with propriety from the old genus 
Amaryllis, and that they may safely be characterized by 
their nearly regular flowers, which have a vertical or nearly 
vertical position, and by their stamens not being bent to 
one side and unequal in length, but equal and spreading 
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