integuments of the fame nature as thofe we defcribed in the 

 article Amaryllis burnt is. Scape folid, ancjpital-compreffed, 

 of a cinnamon colour deeply tinged with carmine, preceding 

 the leaves. Involucre bivalved, oblong, rather blunt, twice 

 longer than the pedicles and nearly of the fame colour, en- 

 closing an 8— 10 flowered umbel of large fragrant flowers, 

 whole lower part is greenith white, upper fuffufed with rofe 

 colour or pale carmine and veined. Pedicles 2 — 3 times 

 longer than the germen, with which they are fo infcnfibly 

 conneQed that the joint is fcarcely to be difcerned. Corolla 

 fubregular, funneliorm, rather ftraight, nodding ; fegments 

 fhortly connate, unguiculately attenuate, laminae lanceolate, 

 flightly concaye, recurved-patent, inner broadeit, outer ter- 

 minated by a membranoufly hooked culpis. Organs declined- 

 aflurgent ; filaments adhering to the lower part of the corolla, 

 alternately ihorter ; anthers incumbent, permen bluntly tri- 

 gonal, fubturbinate, agreeing with pedicles and fcape in colour. 

 Style longer than the Itamens,, triquetral, gracilefcent. Stigma 

 obienrely lobed-trifid, deep carmine. Some flowers are quite 

 regular, while others not unfrequently have the upper feg- 

 ments more conflex than the lower. According to the 

 fplendid plate in j. Miller's illufiration, the feeds are few 

 and fubgloboie, not flat, rnembrauoufly winged and chaffy, 

 as in vittata and longifiora. May not (3 (the Cape plant) differ 

 in this refpeft and have flat winged feeds if fo, can it be 

 deemed a variety ? We iufpect in fact it is a difiinci fpecies. 



(a) Was introduced into this country from Portugal in 1712, 

 but where native is yet doubtful ; the channel through which 

 the plant has been received makes it more than probable that 

 it is a Brazil vegetable. The older Botanifts call its country 

 India, which with them may mean the Eaft-Indies, South- 

 America, or even fome parts of Africa: 0, which Miller 

 tells us only differs in having paler flowers and blooming in 

 the Spring inflead of the Autumn, comes from the Cape of 

 Good Hope, where it was found by Sir Joseph Banks. This 

 was alfo fent by Van Royen from Holland to Miller in 

 1754, and flowered in the Chelfea Garden : (a.) is very common 

 in the gardens near Lifbon and Florence, at the 1 aft of which 

 places it is fold in the markets under the name of the Bella- 

 donna Narcijfus. Our feedfmen receive the bulbs yearly in 

 abundance from Portugal, and thefe when planted clofe to 

 the foot of a fouthern wall will blow annually, after they are 

 once fettled, which they are not in lefs than two or three 

 years ; they then produce offsets in plenty : their time of expan- 

 sion is Oftober. This fpecies is by no means fo commonly cul- 

 tivated as we fhonld have imagined, from its beauty, fragrance, 

 and eafy culture, it would haye been before this time. G. 



