GRIFFINIA II VACTNTHIiVA. 



Nat. Ordkii AM \K\ LMDKiB. LlNDLH. 



Bet Reg. 163. 



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Tukkk Are only throe described specie* or Grifiinia, all natives of South 

 America, and named by Mr. Ker in honour of the celebrated cultivator of bulbs, 

 W\ Griffin, Bmi, of South Lambeth. 



G: Pnrriflora, and (S: Intermedia, both resemble '■: Iljnejiilhmn, but this 

 was llir lirsi species introduced from Itrazil (in 15*15), and is larger and hand- 

 somer than the others. The most obvious distinction from Amaryllis, consists 

 in tin* loavc^ which are broad and lint, strongly ribbed with numerous longi- 

 tudinal reins, and netted with transverse fibres; each leaf has a flattened 

 fleshy foot-stalk, our or two inches in length. The flower-stem is somewhat 



compressed, having a sharp ridge up each side. Flower-stalks short and 

 purplish The petals are deeply separated, and the three upper, and the three 

 lower, stand completely apart in two division*, as in Nerinc Auroo. The three 

 lower petals are ntso considerably "waved at their edge*, and of a paler violet 

 colour. Anthers pah* buff, stamens white or bluish, of unequal lengths; Ave 

 of them lie in the direction of the lower peLiU. and the sixth stands upright, 

 nearly hid in the channel of the centre upper petal. Pistyl white, stigma very 

 smalt. 



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