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Nat. Ordxs— AMARYLLIDEJR— LiNDtav. 



Tins is a plant of magnificent growth, baring the deck of the bulb lengthened 

 out, into si smooth, green, lamellatod atom, rcsemblintj that of the Plantain; it 

 is perennial, round, ami very solid ; measuring above fourteen inches in eireuin- 

 ference, and fifteen or sixteen inches in height, before il separates into learns: 

 these »re very numerous, ami measure a yard and half, and some even two 

 vards in length, and six inches in breadth; having a very deep Ha el along 



the centre, and from twenty-seven to thirty ril>* on each side, which, when seen 

 against the light, are beautifully transparent. Hie flower-stems rise from 

 amongst the leaves, and the height from the surface of the soil, to each crowning 

 umbel of llowers, frequently exceeds fivo feet 



The flowers are white, supported on green, unequal peduncles; the tube of 

 tin* (lower, longer than in Criiatm Asiulieum, pale yellowish green. Filaments, 

 nearly horizontal, curling upwards towards Hie extremities, where they are 

 purple-aiilhers long nnd yellowish— style, purple, shorter than the filaments, 

 surmounted hy si minute, Hat, triangular stigma, which, when viewed through a 

 magnifier, appears purple in the centre^ and delicately fringed with white hairs, 



The root was sent hy Dr. Carey, to the Liveq I Botanic Garden, where it 



flowers freely every summer. Native of New Holland. 



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