Tab. 8G46. 

 EUCHARIS Lown. 



Western Tropical America. 



Amaryllidaceae. Tribe Amakylleae. 

 Eucharis, Planch. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 731. 



Eucharis Lowii, Baiter in Oard. Chron. 1893, vol. xiii. p. 538, fig. 78 ; species 

 E. grandiflorae, Planch. & Linden, affinis, tubo staminorum perianthio 

 adnato, lobis tantum liberis distinguitur. 



Herba perennis. Bulbus globosus, collo ei E. grandiflorae simile nisi crassiore 

 mstructus. Folia ovato-cordata, breviter cuspidata, glaberrima, 22 cm. 

 longa, 18 cm. lata, nervis lateralibus approximatis venulis transversariis 

 hliformibus connexis ; petiolus 30 cm. longus. Pedunculiis 60 cm. longus, 

 2-5-florus ; bracteae membranaceae, late lanceolatae, 4 • 5 cm. longae, 8 mm. 

 latae ; pedicelli crassi, 1 cm. longi. Perianthium album ; tubus infundi- 

 buhformis, circiter 9 cm. longus, pars inferior cylindrica 3 mm. diametro, 

 faux 4-5 cm. diametro; lobi elliptici, subacuti, leviter concavi, 5 cm. 

 longi, 3 cm. lati. Staminorum tubus perianthio adnatus ; lobi emarginati, 

 extra linea verticali luteo-viridi notati ; filamentorum pars libera 2 cm. 

 longa. Ovarium oblongum, viride, 3 cm. longum, 8 mm. diametro; 

 stylus staminibus multo longior; stigma trilobum.— C. H. Weight. 



Twenty-five years ago when describing and figuring 

 Eucharis Baker iana, N. E. Brown, at t. 7144 of this work, 

 the late Sir Joseph Hooker supplied a concise resume of 

 the seven species of Eucharis then known, all of which are 

 natives of the Andes of Colombia. In addition to those 

 mentioned there, another species, E. galant/wide.% Planch. 

 & Linden, had been described from Brazil, while more 

 recently yet another, E. narcissiflora, Huber, has been 

 reported from the same region. Yet another, making 

 the tenth known species and the fifth to find a place in 

 this work, has been described since 1890. This species, 



* -Lowii, was originally imported from Colombia, among 

 a consignment of E. Sanderi, Baker, by Messrs. Hugh 

 -Low and Company; it has, however, a rather wider 

 range of distribution than its earlier known congeners 

 from l that State, for the plant from which our illustration 

 i en - en P re P are(i is one which flowered in November, 

 1J13, in the establishment of Messrs. Sander and Sons, 

 ot. Albans, who report that they received it from Peru, 

 in general facies E. Lowii much resembles E. grandi flora, 



February, 1916. 



