Tas. 5883. 
AMARYLLIS RAYNERI. 
A hheaal- . é 
A une [Pele . 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord, AMARYLLIDACEH.—Tribe AMARYLLIDER. 
Genus Amary.uis, Linn. ; (Endl. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 176). 
AmarYLLIs (Hippeastrum) Rayneri ; bulbo elongato-ovoideo v. lageneformi. 
foliis distichis falcato-arcuatis 14-2 poll. latis ensiformibus apice at- 
tenuato obtuso firmis creberrime striatis viridibus fulvo marginatis, 
scapo valde compresso ancipiti viridi fistuloso 1-14-pedali diametro 
pollicis, floribus 2-3, bracteis viridibus membranaceis, 3 exterioribus 
lanceolatis, 3 interioribus linearibus, pedicellis 14-pollicaribus, floribus 
5-6-poll longis, ovario obovoideo, perianthii foliolis oblanceolatis acutis 
supra medium recurvis undulatis pallide purpureis medio albis, 3 exte- 
rioribus sub apice cucullatis, staminibus declinatis incurvis, antheris 
flavis, stigmate 3-lobo. 
A very stately plant, remarkable for the broad and sickle- 
shaped, buff-edged leaves, and large size of the pale, purple 
flowers ; its bulbs were sent by Mr. Williams of Bahia, a 
gentleman who has introduced many fine plants from Brazil, 
to Dr. Rayner of Uxbridge, who flowered it in November, 
1870, and whose merits as an ardent and successful culti- 
vator, I venture to commemorate by giving his name to this 
superb plant. 
Of the described species of the Hippeastrum section of 
Amaryllis, I find none that agree with this in most of its 
characters, though in the form of the faleate leaves it re- 
sembles 4. calyptrata, Ker, (Bot. Reg., vol. ii. t. 164), also a 
native of Brazil, from whence indeed the majority of the 
genus hitherto introduced into European gardens have been 
derived. 
I have followed Endlicher, and the majority of botanists, 
in treating Hippeastrum as a section of Amaryllis, keeping it 
sectionally distinct on account of the hollow scape: how 
far this character coincides with that drawn from the seeds, 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1871. _ 
