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1361 







ZEPHYRANTHES* mesochlda. 



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Half-green Zephyr antjies,: 



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HEXANDRIA JlfOiV^OG FTV/^. 



Aa^ ord. Amaryllide;e R. Br. iLindley's introduction to the natural 

 system, p. 259.) 



ZEPHYRANTHES.—Supnl, vol. IQ.fol. 821. 



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^. wmc^/oa ; bulbo ovato' nigncante; foliis 8-9 viridibus duriuscuHs 

 canahculatis acutis ; scapo 7 unciali viridi (in seminando versi!is basin 

 plus duplo crassiore, rubro minute maculato) pedunculo circiter unciali ; 

 ^P^^ha apice fenestrata vel divisa; corolla 1| unciali infra viridi supri 

 alba extis rubro notata ; tubo .brevissimo fauce laevi; laciniis cxternis 

 semunciam latis,^ internis angustioribus ; stylo coroUa unciam breviore ; 

 nlamentis internis stylum fere adsequantibus, externis brevioribus; stig- 

 mata albo amplo txWoho.—Herberfs MSS. 



Var. «. spatha fenestrata. 



J^ar. /3. pedunculo breviore, corolla vix rubro notata. 



Var, y. spatha apice divisa, corolla aliquantulum flavescente. 

 ^. mesochloa. Herbert, Suprd,foL 1345, in textu. 



** This species of Zephyranthes was sent to Mr. Mackay 

 J>'urseryman of Clapton, by his collector Mr. Anderson, ir 

 company with Habranthiis Andersoni, from the neighb 



WOOa of Buenos Avrpc Tf rkmrlupprl thrp.fi SllP.rfiJ 



scapes in Jun 



uenos Ay 



It produced three successive 



d July, in the Greenhouse kt SpoffortI 



and 



nother 



and ripened its seed. A variety shorter in the ped 

 and corolla, and scarcely stained with red, _.„ . 

 With the point of the spathe divided, and the flower tend „ 

 a little more to greenish yellow, produced a like number 



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any where explained the 



.We are not aware that Mr. Herbert has any where explained the 

 aning of this name. It is evidently derived from Z:'^«g«s, the west wind, 

 I «»^af , a flower ; and was possibly so called because all the species arc 



and 1,^ 



natives of western countries. 



