Tas. 8553. 
ZEPHYRANTHES carDINALIs. 
America. 
AMARYLLIDACEAE, Tribe AMARYLLEAE. 
ZEPHYRANTHES, Herb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 728. 
Zephyranthes cardinalis, C. H. Wright; species Z. concolori, Benth. et 
Hook. f., affinis, pedicello breviore, spatha breviore anguste tubulari 
perianthioque cardinali differt. 
Herba. Folia ligulata, acuminata, 14 cm. longa, 7 mm. lata, supra nitide 
viridia, leviter canaliculata, subtus carinata. Scapus cylindricus, 11 cm. 
altus, 8 mm. diametro, inferne roseus, superne viridis; spatha rosea, 
tubus subinflatus, 15 mm. longus, apex 11 mm. longus, acutus; flos 
inclinatus; pedicellus 2 cm. longus. Perianthiwm cardinale; tubus 
infundibuliformis, 2°5 em. longus, infra viridi-tinctus; segmenta late 
oblongo-oblanceolata, subobtusa, apice  incrassata, erecto-patentia. 
Stamina ad medium perianthii segmentorum attingentia; antherae 
oblongae, lilacinae. Ovariwm breviter ellipticum; stigma trilobum.— 
C. H. Wrieut. 
The handsome Amaryllid which is here described has 
all the facies of a species of Hippeastrum referable to the 
section Habranthus. Yet the nature of the spathe, which 
is monophyllous and tubular at the base, excludes it from 
LTippeastrum, a genus in which the spathe is bilobed to 
the very base, and shows that it is really a Zephyranthes. 
Within Zephyranthes it may best be placed in the section 
Zephyrites where the flower is inclined and the style is 
somewhat declinate. The plant from which our figure 
has been prepared is one which flowered at Kew in June, 
1913. The bulb was presented by Mr. E. S. Miller of 
Wading River, New York, to his friend Mr. J. G. Baker 
in January, 1913, and by Mr. Baker was made over to 
Kew. Mr. Miller informs us that the plant has reached 
him from the Bahama Islands where it is grown in 
gardens, but that he has failed to learn of any locality in 
which the species is indigenous. At Kew the species 
thrives well under the cultural treatment suitable for 
Z. carinata, Herb. which is figured at t. 2594 of this 
work. Its leaves appear in October, but so far it has 
not produced seeds at Kew. 
May, 1914, 
