Pap. Ich. 
Cattleiane. 
AMARYLLIS SOLANDR £FLORA. 
Nar. Orv. Amaryllidee, Br. Linn. Syst. Hexandria Monogynia. 
AMARYLLIS. Linn. Gor hexapetaloidea, irregularis. Filamenta fauci tubi inserta, declinata, ineequalia propor- 
tione v. directione. Dryander in Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. 223. 
Amaryllis 2—4-flora, perianthio infundibulari subregulari, tubo gracillimo intus nudo limbo multo longiore, stigmate 
obtusé 3-lobo. . 
Descr. Folia lorata, glaucescentia, sub anthesi erecta, scapo multoties breviora, posticé recurva, margine paululim cartila- 
ginéo: Scapus cylindraceus, fistulosus, glaucus, subbipedalis. Spatha viridis, erecta, pedunculis duplo longior. ores sulphurei, 
immaculati, pedicellati, cernui. Pertanthium 9-unciale, infundibulare, subregulare, laciniis latis, ovato-lanceolatis, striatis: in- 
fimé angustiore ; marginibus infra faucem nudam cum tubo connatis. Stamina declinata, fauce inserta, limbo paulo breviora, 
ea laciniis interioribus opposita longiora. Ovarium trigonum, 3-loculare, polyspermum. Ovula plana, disticha. Sty/us filiformis, 
staminibus paulé longior. Stigma obtusé 3-lobum. 
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For this fine addition to our collections of Liliaceous plants, the public is indebted to Mr. Brookes of Newington, 
who lately imported it, with several other rare plants, from Cayenne. Our drawing was made from a plant in the 
possession of W. Cattley, Esq. 
Notwithstanding the great and striking difference between this plant and Amaryllis vittata in the flowers, there is 
an astonishing similarity in the leaves, by which alone the plants certainly cannot be distinguished. In addition to the 
extraordinary length of the perianth, which has considerable resemblance to that of Solandra grandiflora, there is a 
wide difference in the stigma, which in the present plant is obtusely 3-lobed, and in A. vittata deeply trifid. We un- 
derstand that Mr. Brookes has other bulbs of this species, the flowers of which are streaked with crimson, by which 
they are much improved in beauty, and show yet more strongly the affinity of the plant to A. vittata, which there is 
every reason to believe is also a native of the same continent ; from whence it has been repeatedly received by our 
friend Mr. Griffin under its common appearance ; and from whence the splendid variety represented in our next 
plate has also been obtained. 
A. Solandreflora undoubtedly belongs to that set of plants which has been indicated by Mr. Herbert, in some re- 
marks on the genera of Amaryllidee lately published in the Botanical Magazine, as constituting what he considers 
Amaryllis proper, all of which are confined to the western hemisphere, and which he thinks form a genus altoge- 
ther different from the Cape plants previously included under the same denomination. In our next article we shall 
take occasion to examine the principles upon which ‘the alterations proposed by the ingenious author have been 
founded, and endeavour to ascertain in what cases it may be advisable to adopt them. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
1. Tube of the corolla, with the limb cut away, exhibiting the stamens. 2. Section of the ovarium. 83. Stigma and upper end 
of the style. 4, Plant in flower, very much reduced in size. 
