140 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Amaryliis, 
been introduced from the Mauritius, into the Botanic Gar- | 
den at Calcutta, where it grows luxuriantly, and blossoms ~ 
with the other species, in May, and during the rains. It 
has almost the exact flowers of my C. latifolium, with | 
nearly the leaves of this species, only rather longer, and 
narrower, margins more waved as in Amaryllis spectabilis, 
N. 390. of the same work, curled, and scabrous ; in Zeyla- 
nicum they are smooth. 
14. C. moluccanum. R. 
Bulbs spherical; stemless, Spathes from four to six- — 
flowered; flowers sessile, declinate ; tube recurved, 
equalling the lanceolar segments of the border, Leaves 
linear-lanceolate, waved, reclinate ; margins scabrous, — 
This most elegant, rather small species, was introduc- 
ed from Amboyna, into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta 
in 1798, where it blossoms during the rainy season, ge- 
nerally in July and August, | 
AMARYLLIS. Schreb. gen. n. 554. 2 Zs 
Corol hexapetala, irregular. Filaments from Fre 
mouth of the tube, declinate, upeanalt in proportion, or 
direction. : 
1. A. radiata. Willd. 2. 60. eee ; 
Spathe two-parted, many-flowered. Flowers pedicel-— 
led ; tube short ; divisions of the border unilateral, linear, 
waved, revolute. Stamina and style ascending, longer 
than the corol. pe 
Chin. Yuk-lan. es 
, A native of China, blossoming during the rainy season . 
in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta. 
2. A. aurea, Willd. 2. 57. Bot. Mag. 409, | 
Spathe from six to eight flowered ; flowers short-pedi- 
