fix inches to two feet in height; pedicles longer than the 
germ. Involucre bivalved; umbel12—20 flowered, upright, 
each flower feparated by a narrow, mentbranous. {pathe, ‘the 
_ innermoft of which are a minute and paences abortive. 
-r one fomewhat 
e and obtufe; the 
three outer fegments es the T membranous hook at their — 
ends on the infide, by » hich ‘they ched together till. 
the flower is ripe for expanfion. Ger trigonal-oval, ob- 
long. Organs nearly equal, decli : 
fhorter than the limb; f{tamens 
anthers incumbent, veriatile; 
pollen, crefcent-fhaped. Tube 
re or lefs purple, generally 
varying in fize, and in being m 
before they decay. becoming’ almoft white, from which pe- 
riod we reckon the _proportionate length of the tube .and 
pedicle, as théfe continue to increafe till then, It réfembles 
AmaryLiis zeylanica and ornata (the latter of which is 
figured in the Botanift's Repofitory, under the name of 
‘Crinum giganteum) but differs from both at fing fight in | 
having felfile germs. Cultivated by Miter; introduced into 
Kew Gardens by Mr. Masson about Nps es ? 
Our drawing was taken from a plant ‘in’ the colle@tion of 
Mr. Wooprorp, at Vauxhall, where it flowered in April; it 
requires to be kept on the flue ‘of the Rove ii ina largifh pot and 
light earth. 
Propagates by ‘the bulb; “Mr. Wy KES, _ Narferyman,, at 
Kenfington, informs us, that with him it has produced p: 
feed- vellels, which as well as the feed refemble Ghee: 
AMARYLLIS Vilfata, and from which he has raifed many 
plants. ‘« : 
The fize of our a would not adie of more than two- 
flowers of thé umbel sei ga 2G, : : 
urrgntly adnate to the tube ; 
they have difcharged their 
uriferous, flowers fragrant, 
“F 
“No, 54. P- 2, 1. 10. erafe Leta 
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