under the name of Amaryllis Hallii. Dr. Hall had it 
in his garden at Shanghai before 1860, and states that 
it 1s often used by the Chinese to decorate their ceme- 
teries. Our drawing was made from plants that 
flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1897. It was 
first received from Mr. Max Leichtlin in 1885. In 
1895 a large supply of bulbs was purchased from a 
Japanese nurseryman, and these were planted in an open 
border against the south wall of a stove, where they have 
flourished and flowered freely. 
Descr.—Bulb globose, two inches in diameter; outer 
tunics brown, membranous. Leaves fully developed in 
April, lorate, obtuse, bright green, glabrous, rather fleshy, 
a foot and a half long, dying down at the end of summer. 
Peduncle developed in July, stout, solid, terete. Flowers 
four to eight in an umbel; pedicels short; spathe-valves 
two, small, ovate-lanceolate. Perianth bright pink, three 
or four inches long; tube subcylindrical, with six small 
truncate scales at its throat, just above the insertion of 
the stamens ; lobes oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, spreading 
from above the middle. Stamens declinate, rather shorter 
than the perianth-limb. Ovary globose; style declinate, 
simple, protruded beyond the anthers.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, perianth-segment, with stamen, natural size; 2, front view of 
anther; 3, back view of anther; 4, apex of style; 5, horizontal section of 
ovary : all enlarged. 
