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Nat. OnnKii— AMARYLLIDE.K— Lindl 



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Furnas from six to ten, sessile ; pure white except llio tube, which is cnuluuHv 

 shaded with green, down to the pericarp. Spatbe ami bractes permanent 

 greenish, unci almost transparent. Stigma small trifid ami dark green. Anthers 

 of ii dingy orange. Stylo and filaments green, nearly down to the edge of t ■■<* 

 nectary, white below. Flower* fragrant, bat Iras powerful than those of P: 

 Speoiosum. Leaves numerous, channeHedj and having a raised furrow on ouch 

 Bide tin- channel down tin* centre. Stem rising from the middle of the leaves; 

 so nuii'li compressed as to In* nearly twice U broad one way. as the ollu% and 

 Inn ini: u sharp edge On cadi side, and a slightly depressed furrow in the centre : 



solid Mirnii-iiinis. and reiygtaucous, but when Hit- bloom is rubbed off) showing 

 itself closely ribbed. Drawn from a plan! in flower in the stove of llic Liverpool 

 Botanic (■nnlcn, Slay. IKiM). A native of Guayana according lo Lindllv, 

 Uxu.br says "probably a native of Cayenne, cultivated in gardens in Alnrtinico, 

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