AMARYLLIS CORRBIENSIS. 



Nh.Oxdeb— AM.\KYI.MI>K;K.— Likdl 



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Bulii, light yellowish brown, round, vrilli a narrow DOCk, from which springs n 

 hiineh of five or six leaves, quite pink at first, afterwards green, shaded with 

 purple, channelled^ glaucous, standing nearly erect, ami having a transparent 

 purple margin. -Lower down on the Imlh rises the scape, twenty-four inches 

 high, smooth, cylindrical, glaucous and hollow; nearly while (ownnK Uic base 



and considerably linked with purple above; u second stem is rising beside il 



Spatbc, brown, transparent, and shrivelled. Two Mowers supported on long 

 unequal peduncles, which are angular shaded with purple and solid throughout 

 Pericarp dark green, indistinctly three-side*!. The colour of the (lower is a 

 brilliant cinnabar wilb some whitish streaks nnd a green stripe more than halt* 

 way along each petal, ninl numerous dark red veins, all longitudinal, occasion- 

 ally bmnelied hat never relicululcd ; the three outer petals an- broader than Die 

 three inner Ones, and the upper outer petal broader, nnd Hit* lower inner petal 

 narrower than Hie others; Hie stameas an- of unequal lengths, hul all of them 

 shorter than the pistyl: style and filaments dark coral-red; anthers brown, 

 Covered with bright yellow pollea; stigma, Hircc-clcft, downy, purplish: nectary, 

 whitish *jreen fringed with white hairs, clasping Hie bundle of filaments, and 

 wry distinct though seareely one fourth the size of the neetary in Aulim or 

 Plutypctahi, and the Mower not expanding so widely. This is apparently n 

 new species belonging to Mit. Herbert's division, llippvnstrnm, wilh which 

 it agrees in every respect except in the solid pcdancle&— Mn. Harrison obtained 

 it from the Padre of CWreiV/, in one of the Srrra* of the Organ Mountains 

 in Brazil; the bulb was tieketed "rare and rulnahh'^ and is now in Mower 

 for the first time at Aighhttryh I7th January, ItftfO. 



