ean: 7737, 
HIPPEASTRUM Harrisont. 
Native of Uruguay. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEX.—Tribe AMARYLLEE. 
Genus Hirrgastrum, Herb.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p- 724.) 
Hiprrastrum (Habranthus) Harrisoni; bulbo gloloso 2-poll. diam. atro- 
brunneo, collo perbrevi, foliis ad 6 loratis 1-13-pedalibus 13-1 poll. latis 
apice rotundatis supra subconcavis lete viridibus albo marginatis 
ecostata subtus pallide viridibus costa apicem versus lata crassiuscula, 
scapo bipedali cylindraceo glauco-viridi, bracteis 2 oblongo-lanceolatis 
bipollicaribus membranaceis paliide brunneis, umbella 3-4-flora, pedicellis 
1-1}-pollicaribus suberectis, floribus subdeflexis, ovario brevi, perianthio 
4-pollicari anguste infundibulari tubo virescente lobis tubo brevioribus 
oblongis subacutis intus albis striatis sanguineis infra medium ornatis, 
staminibus declinatis lobis perianthii brevioribus, antheris 3-pollicaribus 
linearibus falcatis aureis, stylo filamentis multo longiore, stigmatibus 
_ 8 linearibus recurvis obtusis. 
HipprastruM Arechavalete, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 226. Gard. 
Chron. 1899, vol. i. p. 332. 
AmarRyYLuis Harrisoni, Lindl. in Bury, Hexandr. Pl, t. 27. 
I am indebted to Mr. W. Watson for pointing out to me 
the identity of the plant here figured with the Amaryllis 
Harvisont of Mrs. Bury’s magnificent folio volume on Hex- 
_andrian plants, published upwards of sixty years ago. In 
the “Kew Index Plantarum” it will be found in the 
Addenda, p. 1264) referred to Hippeastrum solandriflorum, 
Herb., on the faith of an observation in Baker’s Handbook 
of the Amaryllidex, p. 53. But H. solandriflorum is, as 
may be seen from tab. 2573 of this work, a very different 
plant, a native of French Guiana and N. Brazil, with a 
much longer perianth-tube, no markings on the lobes, 
small anthers, and an almost capitate stigma. It con- 
stitutes the sub-genus Macropodastiwm of Baker. Accord- 
ing to Lindley in Bury’s work, Amaryllis Harrisoni was 
imported by Mr. Harrison, of Aigburth, near Liverpool, 
from Peru; but I think this must be an error, for our 
plant, which differs in no respect from that figured by 
Bury, except in having a narrower white margin of the 
leaf, is certainly a native of Uruguay. 
OctozeR Isr, 1900. 
