most successful cultivators in this country, will ever rank 
Mrs. Arnotp Harrison and Ricuarp Harrison, Esq. of 
Aigburgh, near Liverpool ; and the richness of their collec- 
tions is mainly due to another of the family, Wiii1am Har- 
Rison, Esq. of Rio ; whose country residence, in the Hatem 
of the Organ Mountains, has given him facilities, of whic 
he has had the zeal and the judgment to profit, for col- 
lecting some of the most beautiful, plants that the richest 
country of the tropics can boast. From that source, novel- 
ties are continually arriving at the gardens of Aigburgh; 
and amongst them, has lately been received the subject of 
the present plate. I fear it must be considered as one of the 
varieties of A. aulica, but so well marked, and so beautiful, 
as almost to merit the rank of a species. It indubitably 
approaches much nearer to the var. 8 of Bot. Reg. t. 1038, 
than to the original species, t. 444 of the same work : but 
differs in the splendour of its colour, which pencil cannot 
imitate, in the lengthened green lines of each division of 
the perianth, in the small size of the crown of the tube, 
and in its glaucous leaves. I may mention, that at the 
very time I received the beautiful flowering specimen here 
figured from Mrs. Arnotp Harrison, bulbs of the same 
variety were blossoming in our Glasgow Botanic Garden, 
which had been presented to us from Brazil by — Pearson, 
Esq., and their markings and colour were in every respect 
the same, 
