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PHADRANASSA chloracra. 
Crimson and Green Phedranassa. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDACEJX. 
… PHADRANASSA, Herbert. Germen deflexum trigonè oblongum 
apice constricto. Tubus crassus decurvus latere inferiore breviore sexcostato- 
compactus profunde sexsulcatus ore angustato. Limbus pendulus laciniis 
spatulatis convolutis, sepalis inferne margine fistuleformiter convoluto su- 
perne lamina latiore. Filamenta complanata inferne gradatim latiora infra 
tubi faucem pariter inserta conspicue decurrentia recta, superiora tria bre- 
viora, inferiora producta; anthere breves versatiles infra medium affixæ. 
Stylus rectus stigmate simplici clavato.——Plantæ Americane bulbo ovato, 
scapo tereti crasse carnoso anguste fistulato ; foliis hysteranthiis petiolatis.— 
Herbert in Botanical Register, 1844. misc. 93. 
P. chloracra ; caule bipedali, umbella circiter sexflora, spatha bracteata mar- 
cescente, pedunculis subæqualibus $- unc. viridibus, germine $, unc. 
viridi, perianthio ultra-vel subbiunciali rubro laminis viridibus margine 
.. pallido subundulato subacutis, stylo perianthium filamentis albis stylum 
album superantibus, antheris pallide subluteis, foliis viridibus subacutis 
P 1-2-unciali lamina subpedali circiter 22 uncias lata.— Herbert, 
.c 
This is one of the curious bulbs met with by Mr. Hartweg 
in Peru. It occurred on rocks at the village of Saraguru, 
near Loxa, at an elevation of about 9,000 feet above the sea, 
and was supposed to be the long sought Hemanthus dubius of 
Humboldt and Kunth. 
When the learned Dean of Manchester recast the genera 
of Amaryllids, he found it necessary to remove the plant from 
Heemanthus, with which it has no other than an ordinal affi- 
nity, and he stationed it in Phycella, to which it appeared 
more likely to belong. The examination of fresh flowers has 
however shewed that it constitutes a peculiar genus, to which 
Dr. Herbert has given the name of Phedranassa (it is to be 
presumed from dauöpos gay, and avacoa queen). He regards 
it as an approach to Stenomesson and Pentlandia. The want 
