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SPREKELIA glauca. 

 Glaucous Jacobean Lily. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. Ord. Amaryllidace^e. 

 SPREKELIA. Botanical Register, 1840. t. 33. 



S. glauca ; foliis linearibus glaucis, floribus solitariis cernuis, sepalis medio 

 albo-vittatis lateralibus parum convolutis petalisque lanceolatis apice 

 recurvis subsequalibus. Botanical Register, 1840, misc.no. 104. 



This is evidently of the same genus as the old favourite 

 Jacobean Lily, or Amaryllis formosissima, but it differs from 

 it in having smaller and rather paler flowers, and a very 

 glaucous foliage. 



Mexico and the neighbouring countries to the south, 

 seem to be the haunt of the genus, for the old kind was ori- 

 ginally obtained from Guatemala, and this comes to us from 

 Mexico, where Mr. Hartweg discovered it. It flowered in the 

 garden of the Horticultural Society in May, 1840. 



In that establishment it is grown in turfy loam rendered 

 free by a mixture of peat, leaf mould and sand. In autumn, 

 after the leaves and flowers have decayed, it is either taken out 

 of the pot and laid upon a dry shelf, or if suffered to remain, 

 kept quite dry until the following spring. In the growing 

 season the temperature in which it is placed is a little higher 

 than a common greenhouse. It is propagated by offsets. 



Probably the treatment applicable to the common Spre- 

 kelia would suit it as well. Of this Mr. Herbert writes as 

 follows : — " The bulbs are perfectly hardy and appear to like 

 a low temperature, but they will not flower willingly unless 

 they have a season of drought. They succeed well against the 

 wall of a stove in the open ground, flowering in the sprino* 



