AMARYLLIS FULGIDA. 



Nat. Oudbr— AMARYLLTOK/K— LtsiMj;^ 



Hot. Reg. 336. 



Whoever lias paid attention to any one branch of natural history, must have 

 foil tho force of the troth so well explained by Mr. Lyj&li, in his observations 

 on different systems of arrangements: namely, that " while few individuals only 

 are known to the collector, lie liudi it nn easy tn>k to «*>lablisli distinctions of 

 genera and species, hut in proportion as our collections are ewiched, difficulties and 

 ambiguities begin/* and "the greater the number of natural object* assembled 

 together tin* more do we disCOTOT proofs that every thing passes |>y insensible 

 similes into something else."* 



Amaryllis Fulgida, Crocata, Regime, anil some others, resemble each other 

 very much, hot as staled in the itulunival ltvyistw^ Amaryllis Kulgida, "differs 

 from Crocataand Kulila, in Hie greater length of the lube of the corolla", (a* 

 compared with the germen;, "and from Ko,iicstris ami RegiiKe, in having the 

 lliroat smooth instead of crowned with white hairs;" it exceeds them all except 

 perhaps Crocata, in heigth and the size of the foliage, and the dazzling lustre of 

 the colour of the flowers. 



Tliis specimen was imported hy Mr. BCarrison, from Itrazil, and was drawn 

 at Vighhurgh, April, IS:J£. Some of the leaves measured Iweoly-nine inches 

 in length and nearly IhrOO inches in breadth; the first llowcrslcni (bearing 

 eight flowers,) attained the heigth of thirty inches and would probably hare 

 bcenme soiuewhal laller, hut was most generously cut for the completion of 

 the present figure:; asceoud scape immediately succeeded it, twenty-eight inches 

 high and having six flowers; some smaller bulbs of the same species, were also 

 in flower at Axnold HarkimkV* Eso. ami differed slightly in the size and shape 

 of the light-coloured star in the centre. 



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