Tas. 4952. 
LEPERIZA ‘“ATIFOLIA. 
Broad-leaved Leperiza. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE#.—HExaANDRIA MonoeGyNIA. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium superum, corollaceum, rectum, e tubo cylindraceo brevi 
stricto campanulatum, 6-fidum, deciduum; Jaciniis ovatis, acutiusculis, sube- 
qualibus, erectis. Corona faucialis tubulosa, abbreviata, 6-dentata, inclusa, inter 
dentes staminifera. Stamina subequalia, erecta, exserta. Anthere oblonge, dorso 
medio affix, incumbentes. Ovarium inferum, abbreviato-ovatum, tricoccum. 
Columna stylina erecta, stamina superans, filiformis. Stigma parvum, obsolete 
trigonum. Semina plurima, parva, oblongo-subrotunda. — Herba Americana, 
bulbifera, scapigera: bulbo tunicato. Folia coetanea (estivalia), petiolata, ob- 
longa, acuta, striato-nervosa, nitida. Scapus erectus, teres, umbellato-multiflorus. 
Sige polyphylia ; foliolis sublanceolatis, marcescentibus. Flores pedicellati, pen- 
ult. Kth. 
Leperiza latifolia. 
Lureriz latifolia. Herb. App. p. 41. Hj. Amaryll. p. 195. Kih. Enum. 
Plant. v. 5. p. 643. 
CurysIPHIa.a latifolia. Lindl. in Schult. Syst. v. 7. p. 906. 
Pancratrum latifolium. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. v. 8. p. 54. ¢. 284. 
An ornamental South American bulbiferous plant, native of 
moist, shady, woody places, in the Province of ‘Tarma, Andes of 
Peru: detected by Ruiz and Pavon, and described by them 
under the name of Pancratium latifolium, in their ‘ Flora Peru- 
viana ;’ and of which bulbs were sent to us by our friend John 
McLean, Esq., late of Lima. Dr. Lindley suggested that it 
should be united with Chrysiphiala ; but the learned author of 
the ‘Amaryllidacee’ has constituted of it the genus Leperiza, of 
which it forms the sole species. ‘The plant is kept m an ordinary 
greenhouse, where it blossoms in September. 
Dzscr. Buld moderately large, tunicated, externally brown 
and striated, somewhat scaly at the top, from whence the leaves 
(two to four) appear : these are on rather long, broad, channelled 
petioles ; the blade is broad-oval or elliptical, acute, striated, sub- 
- membranaceous, glabrous, almost a span long, four to four and 
DECEMBER Ist, 1856. 
