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SPREKELIA glauca. 
Glaucous Jacobean Lily. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE&. 
SPREKELIA. Botanical Register, 1840. t. 33. 
S. glauca ; foliis linearibus glaucis, floribus solitariis cernuis, sepalis medio 
albo-vittatis lateralibus parim convolutis petalisque lanceolatis apice 
recurvis subeequalibus. Botanical Register, 1840, misc. no. 104. 
This is evidently of the same genus as the old favourite 
Jacobean Lily, or Amaryllis formosissima, but it differs from 
it in having smaller and rather paler flowers, and a very 
glaucous foliage. 
Mexico and the neighbouring countries to the south, 
seem to be the haunt of the genus, for the old kind was ori- 
ginally obtained from Guatemala, and this comes to us from 
~ Mexico, where Mr. Hartweg discovered it. It flowered in the 
garden of the Horticultural Society in May, 1840. 
In that establishment it is grown in turfy loam rendered 
free by a mixture of peat, leaf mould and sand. In autumn, 
after the leaves and flowers have decayed, it is either taken out 
of the pot and laid upon a dry shelf, or if suffered to remain, 
kept quite dry until the following spring. In the growing 
season the temperature in which it is placed is a little higher 
than a common greenhouse. It is propagated by offsets. 
Probably the treatment applicable to the common Spre- 
kelia would suit it as well. Of this Mr. Herbert writes as 
follows :—‘‘ The bulbs are perfectly hardy and appear to like 
a low temperature, but they will not flower willmgly unless 
they have a season of drought. ‘They succeed well against the 
wall of a stove in the open ground, flowering in the spring 
