erectis, genuine longiore minus declinato, tubo laevi 

 magis cernuo, filamentis magis fasciculatis. 



Amaryllis pulverulent a hortulanorum. 



Amaryllis acuminata. Bot. Reg. 534. 



Hippeastrum pulverulentum. Nobis in appendice. 



Descr. Bulb four inches in diameter or larger, bearing 

 blind offsets, which is perhaps peculiar to some of the species 

 with the mouth of the tube smooth. Leaves exceeding 

 two inches in width and two feet in length, deep green, 

 conspicuously covered with a cinereous bloom, purple at 

 their base ; with a thick margin which is curved downwards. 

 Scape about or under two feet, purple at the bottom. 

 Spathe withering early. Peduncles about six, sloping more 

 than those of fulgidum. Germen longer and less declined. 

 Tube more cernuous, about an inch long at top, smooth at 

 the mouth. Filaments crowded together, the upper late- 

 rals not divaricating as in fulgidum. LacinicB a little 

 broader in the middle than those of fulgidum, but not more 

 pointed. Ovules about 52 in a cell. The plant figured in 

 the Bot. Reg. is described as having the germen green, the 

 tube greenish yellow, and the limb paler than fulgidum. 

 That which is here represented, had the germen tinged with 

 red, the tube marked like that of fulgidum , the limb paler 

 than fulgidum v. miniata (supra 1943), but a little darker 

 than the usual colour of fulgidum, and it appears to be a 

 finer variety than Mr. Griffin's plant. The name of Ama- 

 ryllis pulverulenta was given to it above a year ago, and 

 pretty generally adopted by those who cultivated it, and 

 Mr. Griffin's plant was so labelled. There does not 

 appear to have been any sufficient cause for altering the 

 name to acuminata; on close comparison of its flowers 

 with those of fulgidum blown at the same time, the petals 

 are not in the least more pointed, but a little broader 

 in the middle. It is very closely allied to fulgidum, but the 

 eye distinguishes it at once by the strong bloom upon its 

 leaves, which is impressed also on the mules produced from 

 Regina by its pollen. It is distinguished also by the size, 

 thickness, aud bent margin of its leaves, the size of its 

 bulb, the peduncles being less erect, the germ less declined 

 and longer, the tube more cernuous and a little short or 

 (not quite an inch on the upper side), the upper lateral 

 filaments not straddling apart, the spathcs withering before 



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