Tab. 5464. 

 URCEOLINA pendula. 



Drooping Urceolina. 



Nat. Ord. AmaryllidacejE. — Hexandria Monogynia. 



^ Gen. Char. Perigonium superum, corollaceum, rectum, e tubo gracili tereti ven- 

 tncoso-campanulatum, 6-fidum, regulare, marcescendopersistens ? ; laciniis brevi- 

 bus, ovatis, subaequalibus, recurvato-patulis, exterioribus acuminatis. Stamina 

 6, summo tubo inserta, basi membrana juncta (corona staminifera abbreviata, 

 sinubus interstamineis), exserta, insequalia ; sepalino superiore elongato, petalino 

 inferiore abbreviato. Antheree oblongse, dorso infra medium affixse, incumbentes. 

 Ovarium subrotundo-ovatum, tricoccum, multiovulatum. Columna sty Una fili- 

 formis, erecta, stamina vix superans. Stigma obtusum, trigonum. Capsula 

 tngona, trisulca, trilocularis, polysperma. — Herba3 bulhiferte, scapigera, bulbo 

 tunicato. Folia coeetanea, petiolata, oblonga, crassa. Scapus solidus, convexo- 

 plamis, umbellato-plurijiorus. Spatlia polyphylla, marcescens. Flores pedicellati, 

 penduli. Kth. 



Urceolina pendula ; foliis petiolatis tripalmaribus, palmam latis, scapo pedali, 

 floribus 5-8 bipollicaribus, limbo inferne flavo, superne viridi albo-angulato, 

 filamentis styloque limbum superantibus. Herb. 



Urceolina pendula. Herb. Amaryl. p. 193. Lindl. in Bot. Beg. 1838, n. 151. 

 Urceolaria pendula. Herb. Amaryl. App. 28. 

 Crinum urceolatum. Buiz et Pav. Fl. Perm. 3. p. 58. t. 287. fig. b. 

 Collania. urceolata. Schult. Syst. Veget. 7. p. 893. Bcem. Amaryl. t. 54. 

 Klk. Enum. Plant. 5. 645. 



Urceolina aurea. Gard. Chron. 1864, p. 627. 



For the opportunity of figuring this very fine Araaryllidaceous 

 plant, we are indebted to Messrs. Veitch, of King's Road, Chelsea, 

 who, through their collector Mr. Pearcc, imported the bulbs from 

 Peru, where the locality given for it by Ruiz and Pavon (its first 

 describers) is "woods on the Andes at Pozuzo and Pampa- 

 nmrca." Mr. Herbert remarks that the size of the flowers is 

 ^nggcrated in the ■ Plora of Peru and Chili ;' but such is not 

 the case, as our specimen and figure will prove ; and the shape 

 and colour are very remarkable : the former is that of an inverted 



SEPTEMBER 1ST, 1864. 



