C 725 ] 



Amaryllis Curvifolia. Glaucous- 

 Leaved Amaryllis. 



Clafs and Order, 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. — Vid. N um - 66 1. 



Specific Charabler and Synmyms. 



AMARYLLIS curvifolia (umbella multiflora) conVexa j foliii 

 glaucinis, lineari-loratis, parum attenuates, 

 obtufatis, enerviis, fubfalcatis una hinc caefim 

 deflexulis, concaviufculis, extus convexulis ; 

 laciniis regularibus obiter connexis, ftellato- 

 revolutis, lineari-oblongis, fubundulatis ; ge- 

 nitalibus fafciculatim erectioribus, longioribus ; 

 ftigmatibus obfcurius trinis. G. 



AMARYLLIS curvifolia. Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 1. />. 33. /. 

 64. mild. Sp. PL 2. 59. 



AMARYLLIS lothergillia. Bot. Rep. t. 163. 



Nomen vix retinendum uti parum conjians, manife/lum, aut privums 

 melius fuppeditaffet glauca foliorum fades. G. 



Bulb tunicated, ovate, covered by integuments the textile 

 part of which is finer than in thofe of bumilis and farnienjis> 

 being pearly as fine as cobweb, but their coating thicker and 

 more cruftaceous. Scape round, longer than the leaves, which 

 are glaucous, oblong-linear or thong-fhaped, flightly attenuated* 

 blunt, depreffed along the middle* fomewhat convex under- 

 neath and paler, nervelefs, falcate edgeways and gently de- 

 flected in the fame direction. Spathe as ufual in the genus* 

 containing a many-flowered convex umbel of bright glittering 

 fcarlet flowers, without fcenu Corolla regular, revolutely 



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