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HIPPEASTRUM SUBBARBATUM. SLIGHTLY- 
BEARDED KNIGHTS-STAR-LILY. _ 
KEKE KEE EEE KEE EE 
Class and Order. | 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
| Generic Character —Vide supra No. 2273. 
Corrigendum. Semina uno ordine conserta, integumento 
_ exteriore nigro margine sepissimé foliaceo cavo, imteriore 
_ separabili, albumini conformi. 
Specific Character. 
_ Hirpgastrum subbarbatum, foliis 24 uncias latis, nitidis, 
viridibus, corolla magna miniaté stella viridi-lutea, 
laciniis exteris multiim latioribus, tubo cernuo macu- 
lato fauce rarissimé subbarbata, stigmate trifido, semi- 
nibus planis margine foliaceo cavo. H. fulgido affine, 
tubo cernuo, laciniis obtusioribus, stella latiore, ima 
laciniad non ventricosé et fenestraté curvata, setisque 
minutis in fauce tubi distinguendum. W. H. 
Se en Te ee ee A a ee et 
_. This beautiful plant, from Rio Janeiro, occupies an 
Intermediate place between H. fulgidum and equestre var. 
_ Inajor, to.which last it approximates in the colour and form 
_ of the limb, the shape of the star, and the vestige of a 
_ beard, which is just distinguishable at the mouth of the 
tube. With great doubt, however, we separate it from 
_ fulgidum, but it cannot be joined with that species without 
also including H. rutilum, crocatum and pulverulentum 
_ which approach nearer to fulgidum in flower; and we feel 
_ adifficulty in making that union, because the differences 
_ between them in the wild state continue when they are 
_ propagated by seed in cultivation: at the same time we 
_ are embarrassed and expect to be more so by the discovery 
_ of other species or varieties in a wild state connecting the 
- links throughout the genus more closely. sage! a0 
haps, be found expedient to unite H. fulgidum, ‘ 
batum, rutilum, crocatum, and pulv um, as perma- 
lent varieties of one species, which may be named 
_ Proliferum, distinguished by the production of blind off-— 
_ Sets, by glossy foliage, a lacie trifid stigma, limb five 
