A 31 A It Y L L I S LO N G I F OLIA. (olaoca.) 



Nat. OuDtR— AMAIULLIDHF.— Limm . w 

 Ifortufi Contabrigien$i$, 



Scapk springing from tlic side tif the bulb, three feet high; solid, compressed, 

 smooth, and glaucous; spatlie of a cinnamon colour, dividing into two parts; 

 flowers from four to ten in number* erect on scmiangulnr peduncles aljoiit two inches 

 long; llower about six inches long, of wliicli I he tube is more than half— belong* 

 to Mr. Herberts division *' Scmf-jHttcnte** or liolf opening (lowers. Petals 

 nearly cuual; uistvl and filaments of a pale rose-colour; anthers light vellow. 

 leaves many of ilicm fully two yards long, about four inches broad at the base, 

 but curling very much, so as to assume a rush-like np|»earaiice towards their 

 extremities; of a blue green resembling the foliage of carnations; and the whole 

 plant* when in health, beautifully glaucous, tkarticulnrly the leaves, which are 

 altogether dilVerent in form, texture, and colour, from the strong lint heavy leaves 

 of Amaryllis I»ngifnli;i, Ifeit. -Mag* GUI, (Criuum C&jjcjisc of Mr. Herbert}. 



This Plant has for many years flowered in the cistern in the green-house at 

 Fairfield, producing between Mav and September three or four stems> generally 

 with from six to ten flower* on each; it most nearly resembles the Amaryllis 

 l^aigifolia var. riparia* of the Botanical Register, No. f>-lb\ (Crinum Itiparium 

 of Mr, Herbert, and quoted as the true Amaryllis Ijungifuliiu in Dorm's Catalogue.) 

 except that the flowers arc considerably paler, and mure upright, and less widely 

 expanding; it was necessary to hold one of them down in a forced position* in 

 order to shew the interior at all in the drawing. Native of the Cape of Good Hope* 









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