A M ARTLLIS EQUES T R I S. (.major.) 



Nvr. OiH>ns.— AMARYLLIDBfit—Lurour. 



BoL Reg. 234. 



Tins is a lender bulb, and nut of verv easv trc«tmoiit. 40 as to secure aiiv 

 constancy in its (lowering; hut it was in extreme beauty and luxuriance, in 

 .Mr. Harmon* collection, nt tlic time this drawing was made, June 182fi. 



The KnightV star iti the centre of the flower, is very conspicuous, wlien viewed 

 in full front; the mouth of the tube is fringed with light-coloured bain; the 

 middle lower petal is narrower. Hie rest of nearly equal breadth, gracefully 

 undulated, and slightly reticulated: the style and lilumcnts red, greenish towards 

 the base; anther* yellow, and small in |>ronortioii to the Bower; Hower-stein round 

 and glaucous; leaves thick and tough, channelled, from iwelve to fourteen inches 

 long, and one to one and a half inch broad, of rather a dark yellow green, veins 

 indistinct. Native of the West Indict, ns well as the smaller variety, which is 

 Jigured in Curtis's Magazine, No, tfOi*. and said to Ik* nmeh more common. The 

 degree of obliquity of the (lowers and pedicles varies extremely, according to the 

 state of expansion of the (lowers and their greater or less expoMire to the 

 influence of the sun; therefore, their angle can be no certain mark of distinction, 

 though it has been considered one. 







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