- 
According to Ruiz and Pavon, common in the woods of 
the Andes, and cultivated in the gardens of Chicav, &c. where 
it is known by the name of the Mountain Lake. _Communi- 
cated in June last, by Mr. Jenkins, of the Portman Nursery 
and Botanic Garden, in the New-Road, who informed us that 
it was brought from the West-Indies by Tuomas Marcu, Esq. 
Montague-Place. 
Nore. Amarytuis gigantea, No. 923*; A. zeylanica, 
No. 1171; A. ornata (the Cape-Coast Lily of our Nursery- . 
men) not yet figured in the Botanical Magazine ; and A. dis- 
ticha, No. 1253 (ornata,«. of Ker) ; were, at their first publi- 
cation in the Magazine, considered by Mr. Ker as mere varie- 
ties; the first of them was afterwards (vide No. 117] and 1253) 
separated by him into a distinct species, under the name of 
gigantea. In the Journal of Science and the Arts (vol. 2. 
p. 367 and 368) the same Botanist has acknowledged that zey- 
lanica and ornata are certainly distinct species ; and that, 
perhaps, they ought to be still farther divided. Cultivators in 
general are decidedly of opinion that all four are quite distinct ; 
and we have been repeatedly urged by our intelligent 
correspondent, the Hon: Wixi1Am Hergerrt, of Spofforth, to 
separate them under distinct names, which, with respect to those | 
already published, we have endeavoured to do in the Enumera- 
tion. Mr. Wooprorp, late of Belfont-House, Vauxhall; ina 
letter from Lisbon, has likewise pointed out the specific dif- 
ferences which exist between all the four; and Mr. Ker, - 
in his review of the genus Amaryllis, above quoted, has ac- 
knowledged the distinction, and separated all of them except 
his ornata,«. No. 1253. 
All the above species, together with longifolia and revoluta, 
Mr. Hernert thinks should be united to Crinum ; he observes, 
that they produce the same rugose, irregular, green seeds, 
and will freely breed with the Crinums ; but not with the 
Amaryllises that have flat, shining, black seeds. weet 
t, ‘ a Fe ee eee cae 
_ * As we esteem this species to be quite as distinct as any one of the 
others from the rest, we propose to make the following alteration : 
© No. 1253. Amaryttis disticha ; sessiliflora, tubo limbum sub-bilabiatum 
zquante, spatha subuniflora, foliis linearibus canaliculatis bifariam equitantibus. 
“AMARYLLIs ornata,a. Ker in Journ. of Sc. and the Arts, v.2. p. 868. 
This plant has been known among the Nurserymen, both by the name of 
oe ge and by that of scillifolia ; we prefer the former, as expressive of its 
We haye been informed by Mr. Wooprorp, that the bulbs of this species, 
which are very like those of the ss White Narcissus, were some years. 
ago imported iB ek numbers — ierra-Leone, and sold for eight-pence. 
€ root ;. and t ey gener roduced onl and never more. 
two flowers on the same scape. ir M octioe aa T more tha, 
