( 3961. ) 
HABRANTHUS PRATENSIS; var. quadriflora. | 
Merapow Hasrantuus; four-flowered var. 
SHEESH HEHEHE 
Class and Order. 
HexanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—AMARYLLIDEZ. ) 
Generic Character. 
Germen medio constrictum; tubus equalis. Filamenta 
declinata, fasciculata, recurvata, quaterna longitudine. 
Stylus declinatus, recurvatus. Semina cumulata, compla- 
nata, nigra.—Flos sub sole patentior. Herb. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Hasranraus pratensis ; foliis linearibus dorso rotundatis, 
scapo bipedali vel ultra 2—4-floro, perianthio coccineo 
infra luteo, tubo brevissimo, limbo biunciali subcam- 
panulato inequali, dentibus sex epigynis plus minus 
serratis. 
Var. 1. triflora, foliis glaucis. Placea pratensis. Poeppig, 
Fragm. Syn. p. 5. 
Var. 2. quadriflora, foliis vix glaucis. a 
Hasrantuvs pratensis. Herb. Amer. p. 159. W. H. 
This bright-coloured flower seems evidently referable to 
Hasrantuus pratensis. It differs from the description of 
Dr. Porrric only in having the leaf not decidedly glaucous, 
the flowers four instead of three, and teeth irregularly ser- 
rate which he describes as serrate. It is the only Haprantuus 
we have seen with decidedly dentate processes. Those pro- 
cesses must have led Dr. Pogprie to call it Placea, a Genus 
then only known by Miers’ name without any published 
definition, except a notice by Dr. Linpiey that it was fur- 
nished with remarkable processes. Pxacea ornata has been 
since 
