half the length of the fcape, where they are halved-fphacekte 

 on the fide oppofed to their lamina; from the iheathing part 

 they expand into oblong-lanceolate lamin<e t which are imooth, 

 bifarioufly divergent, diitant, lower ones fhortefr, 1—2 inches 

 broad ; fcape about two feet high, compreffed ancipital, even ; 

 fpathe bivalved, fphacelately membranous, ovate-acuminate; 

 umbel 3 — 6-flowered, higher than the fpathe ; germen feffile, 

 feveral times fhorter than the tube of the flower, with 

 which it is continuous, trigonal-oblong, trifulcate, green; 

 corolla large, bright yellow, nutant-hypocrateriform ; tube 

 upright, about equal to the fegments of the limb, thick, 

 flefhy, obtulely hexagonal, fulcate, nearly of the fame 

 fize all its length, green downwards, yellow upwards ; 

 limb nutant ; fegments linear-lanceolate, narrow, diftant, ftel- 

 lately expanded ; crown turbirmte-campanulate, equal to the 

 limb, dentately jagged, with twelve deeper clefts, the alternate 

 ones of which are linear with parallel contiguous fides, while 

 the others are acutely finuate, patent, and have the ftamens 

 placed at the bafe of their fork, below each of which on the 

 inner fide is a green vertical glandulariy thickened fillet, making 

 together fix green radii that converge towards the mouth of 

 the tube ; ftamens deep yellow, round-fubulate, far fhorter than 

 the crown but longer than the clefts, infra&edly connivent 

 below the rim of the crown ; anthers linear-fagittate, upright, 

 appended from the centre of their back ; flyle whitifh, not ad- 

 hering to the bore of the tube, rounded-triquetral, thicker 

 than ftamens, declined-affurgenr, terminating in three very 

 ftiort lobe-fhaped Jtigmas. 



A fpecies that has not yet found its way into any general 

 enumeration of vegetables known to us, and a flranger to our 

 colle&ions till lately imported from the Brazils, by MefTrs. 

 Middlemist and Co. Shepherd's-Bufh, in whofe hot-houfe 

 it flowered, for the firft time, this fummer. Moft probably a 

 native of the Brazils, but certainly of Peru, where it is known 

 by the appellation of Amancaes or Hamancaes^ and is found in 

 abundance on hills in the neighbourhood of Lima that bear 

 the fame name. The flowers, which are exceedingly fragrant, 

 are ufed by the women of thofe parts by way of ornament 

 for their hair. The figure in the Flora Peruviana, is con- 

 fiderably lefs than nature, but charaaeriftic. G. 



