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Amaryllis purpurea. Cinnabar- 

 flowered Amaryllis. 



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Generic Character. — Vtd. No. 923*. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



AMARYLLIS purpurea ; (2-pauciflora ; flos inferne tuhdofus y 

 obfolete irregularis ; faux nuda ;) foliis pluribus (fubfenis) 

 bifariis convoluto-loratis obtufulis obfcurius reticulato- 

 venofis, interioribus elatioribus fcapum ltri&um fubcom- 

 preifo teretem aequantibus ; fpatha bivalvi pedicellis 

 corolla 2 — 3 brevioribus longiore j germine trigono- 

 oblongo ; corolla erefta infundibuliformi limbo fubrotato- 

 campanulato labro extrorfum obliquato, tubo rotundate 

 trigono in faucem late turbinatam hyalino-fexfeneftratam 

 ifometram ampliato ; laciniis illi fubaequalibus reticulato- 

 rugofulis, extimis fubrhombeo - ovatis acutulis cum 

 mucrone, intimis elliptico-lanceolatis una tenia angufti- 

 oribus ; ftaminibus tubo (alternis vel et citra eum) adnatis, 

 erefto-patentiffimis incurvulis inclufis, alterne fubbrevi- 

 oribus ; antheris erec"ro-appenfis vibratilibus ; Itylo re- 

 clinate incurvulo limbum aequante ; ftigmate obfolete 

 triplici, fubaperto, puberulo. G. 



AMARYLLIS purpurea. Hort. Kezv. 1. 417. ed. 2. 2. 224. 

 Mart. Mill. Dicl. Bauer's Sketches in Cod. Banks. Willd. 

 S P . PL u 53. 



A. elata. Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. 1.32. tab. 62. 



A. fpeciofa. L'Herit. Sert. Anglic. 12. n. 11. 



CR1NUM fpeciofum. Linn. Suppl. 195. Syjl. Veg. ed. 14. 319^ 

 Thunb. Prodr. fl. cap. 59. 



Descr. Bulb ovate-oblong, larger than a turkey's egg, 

 brown ; Jlem 2 — 3 feet high, as well as the leaves purple to- 

 wards the bafe ; pedicles green ; fpaihe fphacelate ; flowers 

 2 — 4, about three inches long, of a deep uniform blood-red 

 colour ; outer fegments rounded-keeled and greenifh down the 

 centre of their back ; faux connected by fix paler coloured 

 fubrranfparent membranes ; filaments red ; pollen yellow ; fiyle 

 pole red. Comes the neareft to longifolia 'No. 661 ) of any 

 fpecies known to us ; but is very diftinft from regitta* (No. 453), 

 of which L'Hiritier doubted whether it might not be a 

 variety. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, whence it was 



introduced 



