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AMARYLLIS RETICULATA. (@. STRIATIFOLIA. 
GRIFFIN’S NETTED-VEINED AMARYLLIS. 
Copureia. Herbert. 
Nese sea teak Seas see ee 
Class and Order. 
HexanpriA Monoeynia. 
Generic and Specific Character.—Vide supra No. 657. 
Synonym. 
Amaryuuis reticulata @. ; Bot. Reg. No. 352. 
Whether this be a mere variety of Amaryuts reticulata 
before figured, or a distinct species, we do not at present 
pretend to determine. It differs from the common reticulata, 
in the greater size, more intense colour, and less evident 
reticular veining of the flower ; in the larger, more leaf-like, 
erect spathes, longer than the peduncles ; and in the broader 
Jeaves, which have a remarkable white stripe along the 
mid-rib. These differences appear to be permanent in the 
ofispring from seeds.—Supposed . to be a native of Brasil, 
from which country, Mr. Grirrin received the bulbs some 
years ago.—It may be doubted however, Mr. Hersert 
observes, whether these plants were not originally imported 
there in some slave ship from: Africa. . 
The natural order of Amarytuex as established by 
Mr. Brown. from the second of Jussizvu’s sections of Nar- 
cisst, still requires a revisal, though much has been done 
by Mr. Ker, in the Botanical Magazine, Annals of Botany, 
Botanical Register, and lastly, in the second volume of the 
Journal of Science and the Arts. Perhaps it is only under 
the eye of a cultivator that the many difficulties which attend 
the assigning of proper limits to the genera can be overeame. 
Fortunately the Honourable WitiiAm Hersert, of Spofforth, 
in Yorkshire, to a scientific knowledge of botany, adds the 
advantage of possessing a very large collection of this yates 
whic 
