Tab. 5519. 

 FOURCROYA long^eva. 



Long -enduring Fourcroga. 



Nat. Ord. Amaryllidace^e. — Hexandria Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Perigonium corollinum, superum, deciduum, hexaphyllo-partituin, 

 foliolis aequalibus patentiusculis. Stamina 6, epigyna ; filamenta basi cuneato- 

 dilatata, sestivatione erecta, sub anthesi inclusa; anthem ovatse, medio dorso 

 affixse, erectse. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovula plurima, in loculorum an- 

 gulo centrab biseriata, horizontalia. Stylus triqueter, basi strumoso-incrassatus, 

 subexsertus, cavus, apice pervius; stigma obtusum, fimbriatum. Capsula co- 

 nacea, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina plurima, plano-compressa. — 

 Herbae in America calidiore cis cequatorem indigence, longeevce, semel florentes ; 

 caudice interdum giganteo, apice folioso ; scapo terminali paniculatim ramoso, 

 multifloro. Endl. 



Fourcroya longava ; elata, arborescens, foliis e basi dilatata angusto-ensifor- 

 mibus acuminatis inermibus, margine dorsoque calloso scabriusculis, scapo 

 longissimo erecto, per totam fere longitudinem composito-racemoso, floribus 

 extus glanduloso-pilosis. 



Fourcroya longaeva. Karw. et Zucc. in Nov. Act. Bonn. v. 16. pt. 2. p. 666. 

 t. 48. Herb. Amaryll. p. 126. t. 33. /. 20-25. 



At Tab. 2250 of the 'Botanical Magazine' has been given a 

 figure of the noble Fourcroya gigantea of Ventenat, and at our 

 Tab. 5163 another species of Fourcroya, F. Jlavo-viridis, Hook.; 

 both of these, however, are stemless plants. We have now the 

 great satisfaction of representing a far more striking species even 

 than the F. gigantea, namely, the F. longava of Karwinski and 

 Zuccarini, which flowered in the conservatory of the Regent's 

 Park Royal Botanic Garden, in the summer of last year, under 

 the skilful management of Mr. Robinson,— for the first time, I 

 have every reason to suppose, in Europe. The species was first 

 made known to science by Baron Karwinski, distinguished by 

 his botanical travels in Mexico, and it was figured and described 

 by him and Zuccarini in the volume of the ' Nova Acta ' above 

 July 1st, 1865. 



