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Amaryllis Equestris. Barbadoes 

 Amaryllis, or Lily* 

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C/fl/i <z.W Order. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cor, hexapetaloidea, irregularis. Filamenta fauci tubi infertaj 



declinata, inaequalia proportione vel direftione. Linn. fil. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



AMARYLLIS equejiris fpatha fubbiflora, pedicellis ere&is 

 fpatha brevioribus, tubo filiformi horizontal^ 

 limbo oblique patulo furfum curvo, fauce, 

 pilofa. Linn. fil. Ait. Kew. v. i. p. 417. 



AMARYLLIS dubia Linn. Am. Ac. 8. p. 254. 



LILIUM americanum puniceo flore Belladonna diclum. Herm. 

 Par. Bat. p. 194. cum fig. 



Mr. Aiton, in his Hortus Keivenfis, has inferted this fpe- 

 cies of Amaryllis, as named and defcribed by the younger 

 Linnjeus; he informs us, that it is a native of the Weft- 

 Indies, and was introduced by Dr. William Pitcairx, in 

 1778 : as its time of flowering is not mentioned, we may pre- 

 furne, that it had not bloffomed in the royal garden when 

 the publication before mentioned firfl made its appearance; it 

 no doubt has fince, as we have feen it in that ftate in the 

 collections of feveral Nuferymen, particularly thofe of Mr. 

 Grimwood and Mr. Colvill. 



It flowers towards the end of April. 



The flowering ftem rifes above the foliage, to the height of 

 about a foot or more, produces from one to three flowers, 

 fimilar to, but not quite fo large as, thofe of the Mexican 

 Amaryllis, to which it is nearly related ; it differs however 

 from that plant elfentially in this, that the lower part of the 

 flower projects further than the upper, which gives to its mouth 

 that obliquity which Linnaeus defcribes. 



The fpatha is compofed of two leaves, which {landing up 

 at a certain period of the plant's flowering like ears, give to titf 

 whole flower a fancied refemblance of a horfe's head ; whether 

 Linn je us derived his name of equejiris from this circumltance 

 or not, he does not condefcend to inform us. 



Mr. A 1 ton regards it as agreenhoufe plant ; like thofe of many 

 cf the Ixias, however, the bulbs are of the more tender kind. 



It is propagated by offsets, but not very readily. 



