140 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA.. Amaryllis. 



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 spectahilis, 

 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. Schreh. gen. n. 554. 

 Coral hexapetala, irregular. Filaments from the 

 mouth of the tube, declinate, unequal in proportion, or 

 direction. 



1. A. radiata. Willd. 2. 60. 



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. 



Chin. Yuk-lan. 



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- 



