X RHINE A UREA. 



Nat- Our>i:R-AMARYLIJI>K.K Limmlv. 



Amaryllis Aurea—BoL May. 4(HK 



Fi*owku-m*kii rising nearly two fool high, solid, slightly compressed, 

 glaucous supporting -I or (lowers of hrillinul gold colour, inclining lo 

 orange io Oh- inside, yellower outride, ami having a greenish keel up the centre 

 of oacli petal-- Petals narrow, curling, ami very much undulated at the edges, 

 particularly the three inner oae>. Style and llhimenls pale Orange ami straight. 

 VH r . rn: small, Irittd, carmine colour. Anthers hrowoish* The style consider- 

 ahlv louder thaa the corolla; three of 'In- lihtuionts are longer, and three 

 shorter- -Pedicels yellowish green, short and unequal; germ green, bluntly 



three cornered, Spathe brown, thin, transparent, divided into two broad seg- 

 ments mid three or four narrow ones, or imperfect bractea— leaves strongly 

 keeled, the most luxuriant nearly an inch and half broad, blue-grccn and very 

 glaucous on the hack, and the margin turned down from the front so as to 

 form u narrow harder up each side of the leaf- Hull* resembles that of 

 Fnrmnsissimu in shape, but is of a paler brown colour— Flowers in Autumn, 

 and was first introduced into this country from China by Or- FoTHJUMMU. 

 in 1177. 



