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_AMARYLLIS VENUSTA. Poppy-CoLouRED 
AMARYLLIS. 
EEE EE IE ae eae eae a a ae 
Cla/s and Order. 
Hexanpria Monocynia. 
Generic Charafter—Vide Ne 92*, 
Specific Charafer and Synonyms. 
AMARYELIS venuffa; foliis lineari-loratis, canaliculato- 
concavis fimul cum inflorefcentia vigentibus ; 
corolla hexapetalo-partita, rotata, laciniis 
lanceolato-oblongis, fuperne revolutis ; or- 
ganis, fafciculatim ereétis; ftigmate obfolete 
: trigono-capitato. G, 
(2) floribus faturate coccineis. G. 4 
{8) floribus fubrofeo-rubentibus. G. 
AMARYLLIS /arnienjis. 8. ‘Fac. Hort. Schoenb. 1. p. 34- 
tab. 66. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2%. 59. 
Both varieties are enumerated in the above-quoted work 
of Jacquin, where the defcription is far more accurate 
than the figure, The fpecies differs from farnien/is, of which 
‘thas been deemed a mere variety, in having leaves that are 
Produced at the fame time with the bloom, and not fome time 
after, as in the Japan plant; from curvifolia, in not having 
thefe of a glaucous hue nor laterally curved; from humilis, in 
hot having three deeply feparated Aigists, ee 
A native of the Cape of Good Hope, from whence it was 
‘mported, as well as A. humilis G. of the preceding article, by 
; Curs. Gigrs, Nurferymen, at Brompton, with whom both 
fevered laft November and perfeéted feeds, which were 
«tal in each cell, globular, and fomewhat larger than thofe 
Muftard, G, 
