and relied upon by Herbert and others, is not yet satisfac- 
torily ascertained. Amaryllis, according to these latter 
authors, should have fleshy seeds, and Hippeastrum angular 
seeds, with a black seed-coat, characters which have not been 
sufficiently investigated, because of the rarity of fruiting 
specimens of either genus (or section) in herbaria or gardens. 
Drscr. Bulb ten inches long, narrow-ovoid or flask-shaped, 
covered with pale membranous scales. Leaves distichous, 
sixteen to twenty inches long, remarkably sickle-shaped, all 
curling in the same direction, two to two and a half inches 
diameter, narrowed to an obtuse point, coriaceous, densely 
striate, flat except at the concave base, deep green, with a 
narrow buff margin. Scape one to one and a half feet high, 
short, erect, much compressed, 2-edged, green, hollow. 
Spathes about six, two to three inches long, membranous ; 
outer lanceolate, convolute, subacute; inner linear, very narrow. 
Flowers two to three, horizontal; pedicels one to one and a 
half inch long. Ovary short, obovoid. Perianth five to six 
inches long, four to five inches diameter across the tips of the 
segments, funnel-shaped ; segments pale purple, with whitish 
tips and median band, oblanceolate, striated externally, 
acute, margins waved, upper one-third recurved, the outer 
with thickened hooded tips. Filaments pale, approximate, 
declinate, with arched upcurved tips ; anthers oblong, yellow. 
Style slender, tip upcurved ; stigma 3-lobed.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Diminished view of the whole plant; 2, stigma :—both magnified. 
