Tab. 6367. 

 GRIFFINIA 0RNATA. 



Native of South Brazil. 



Nat. Ord. Amaryllidace/e.— Tribe Amaryllide^e. 

 Genus Griffinia, Ker ; {Kmth, Eiunn. vol. v. p. 542). 



Griffima ornata; bulbo ovoicleo coUo producto, foliis 6-8 synantlms petwlatis 

 oblongis acutis subpedalibus venulis transversahbus creberrimis scapo 

 lateral! compresso pedali vel sesquipedali, umbellis 10-20-ilons, bracteis 

 paUidis oblongo-deltoideis, pedicellis flore subduplo brevionbiis ilonbus 

 pallide lilacinis 2^-3 poll, longis, tubo brevi, segmentis oblanceolatis acutis, 

 staminibus inclusis suprema abrupte recurvata, stylo ad apicem stigmatosam 

 integro. 



G. ornata. T. Moore hi Qard. Okrm. 1870, part i. p. 266, fig. 47. 



This new Griffinia, for horticultural purposes, surpasses all 

 the other known species, with the exception of the very rare 

 G. dryades (Bot. Mag. tab. 5786). It is a typical Gnffinta, 

 most like the old well-known G. hyacinthina, but is much more 

 robust in habit, with more numerous larger leaves with closer 

 cross-vcining, and larger flowers mounted on long pedicels. 

 Like all the other species, it is only adapted for stove-cultiva- 

 tion. It was first imported by Mr. Bull, in 1875, from the 

 neighbourhood of Eio Janeiro. Our drawing was made from 

 a plant presented by him to the Kew collection, which 

 flowered in February, 1878. . 



Descr. Bulb ovoid, three or four inches m diameter, with 

 many brown tunics and a produced neck three to six inches 

 long. Leaves six or eight to a bulb, contemporary with tnc 

 flowers, with a deeply channelled petiole much shorter than 

 the blade, which is oblong, acute, about a foot long, cuncate 

 at the base, bright green on the upper surface paler 

 green beneath, with about fifteen vertical ribs on each side 

 of the costs, which are connected by very fine close oblique 

 cross-bars. Scapes lateral, sometimes two to a bulb, a toot or 



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