Tab. 7344. 

 HIPPEASTRUM brachyandkum. 



Native of Argentaria. 



Nat. Ord. Amaryllide^e. — Tribe Amarylle^ 

 Genus Hippeastrtjm, Herb.; (Benth. et Hooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 724.) 



Hxppbastrum {Habranthus) bracJiyandrum ; bulbo ovoideo, foliisr 3-4 lmearibus 

 viridibus erectis subpedalibns ante antbeBin prodnctis, peduncnlo elon- 

 gato gracili unifloro, pedicello elongato, spathi 1-2-valvi deorsum tubulosa, 

 ovario parvo oblongo, perianthio erecto infundibulari 3-4-pollicari sursum 

 pallide rubro deoranm saturate vinosus, tubo brevi cylindrico, lobis 

 oblongo-lanceolatis flore expanso sursum late patalis, staminibns stylo- 

 qne periantbio duplo brevioribus, antheris linearibus, stylo apiee 

 stigmatoso profunde trifurcato. 



Hippeastrum (Habranthns) bracbyandrum, Baker Handb. Amaryll. p. 42. 

 Gard. Chron. (1890), vol. ii. p. 154. 



This new Amaryllis is one of the finest of all the known 

 species of the section Habranthus. I first described it in 

 1888, from a dried specimen collected by SignorParodi on 

 the banks of the great river Parana, where it leaves 

 Paraguay to enter the territory of the Argentine Republic. 

 Soon afterwards it was introduced in a living state from 

 Buenos Ayres by Mr. A. C. Bartholomew of Reading, 

 who first flowered it in 1890. He presented a plant to the 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, of which the seed ripened. The 

 seedlings were planted in a border with a southern ex- 

 posure, and have nearly all flowered. The first flowers 

 opened in July, and they continued till September, so that 

 the plant proves to be a valuable acquisition to horticul- 

 ture. Our drawing was made from one of the Kew plants 

 last July. 



Descr. — Bulb ovoid, tunicated, above one inch in 

 diameter. Leaves three or four, erect, linear, pale green, 

 glabrous, developed before the flowers appear. Peduncle 

 slender, a foot long, bearing always only a single flower; 

 pedicel erect, two inches long; spathe as long as the 

 pedicel, tubular at the base, one- or two valved. Ovary 



March 1st, 1894. 



