Tab. 7012. 



NARCISSUS PSEUDO-NARCISSUS, var. Johnstoni. 



Native of Portugal. 



Xut. OrJ. Amaryllideje. — Tribe Ama.evlle,e. 

 Genus Nabcissus, Linn. ; (Bent//, et Hook.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 718.) 



Nabcisscs (Ajax) Pseudo-narcissus, var. Johnstoni ; bulbo subgloboso leviter 

 oblato, foliis linearibus subpedalibus dorso late carinatis, scapa leviter ancipito, 

 flore pedicellato saepissime solitario, perianthii tubo anguste infundibulari 

 limbo breviori, segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis citrinis flore expanso horizontaliter 

 patulis, corona late infundibulari obscure hexagona segmentis aequilonga et 

 concolori ore erecto leviter crenato, staminibns obscure biseriatis antheris ex 

 tubo protrusis, stylo staminibus superante. 



N. Pseudo-narcissus, var. Johnstoni, Baker in Gard. Chron. X. S. vol. xxv. 

 (1886), p. 590 ; Handb. Amaryll. p. 3. 



This is another curious Daffodil in addition to N. cycla- 

 miueus (Bot. Mag. t. 6950) which has been found in the 

 neighbourhood of Oporto during the last few } T ears by 

 Messrs. Tait and Johnston. It is possible that it may be 

 the ileus hexangularis of Haworth (Monogr. p. 4), which 

 is known only from the rough woodcuts of Rudbeck, 

 Swertius and Parkinson. It has been suggested by Pro- 

 fessor Henriquez that it may be a hybrid between some of 

 the numerous varieties of Pseudo-narcissus and triandrus, 

 but in all the numerous specimens which I have seen since 

 it was first introduced into cultivation in 1886 the charac- 

 ters are substantially uniform. Our drawing was made 

 from plants flowered in March in the Botanic Garden of 

 Trinity College, Dublin, by Mr. F. W. Burbidge, and it 

 also flowered at Kew about the same time from bulbs 

 collected near Oporto by Mr. Peter Barr. 



Descr. Bull) subglobose, slightly oblate, about an inch 

 in diameter. Leaves about six to a bulb erect, slightly 

 glaucous, about a foot long and one-third of an inch broad 

 at the flowering time, shallowly channelled down the face, 

 and furnished with a broad square keel clown the back. 

 Peduncle slender, faintly two-edged, rather shorter than 

 the leaves. Flower usually single, drooping in bud, hori- 



AUGUST 1st, 1888. 



