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willi red on a white si"ouiul. The stem rises to the lieisht ot three 

 feel or more, and produces from two to five beautiful flowers. It 

 usually blossoms in .\pril or May, but may be forwarded by artificial 

 heat. 



In the eighth species, the flower-stem rarely rises more than three 

 or four inches in height, but supports a great numl)er of flowers, of a 

 deep purple- ct)l(>ur, appcariug in December. The bulbs are large, 

 and the leaves long and narrow. It flowers here in July, and is a 

 native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



In the ninth, or Broad-leaved African Amaryllis, the bulbs are 

 large and almost round; the leaves long, broad, and rounded at their 

 extremities, spreading two ways on the surface of the ground, and 

 do not come up till after the flower-stem appears, which is generally 

 in November; and after the flowers are past, the leaves increase till 

 spring, and in May they begin to decay, so that from the middle oi" 

 June to October the plant is void of leaves. It grows naturally at 

 the Cape of Good Hope. 



In the tenths pecies, or Guernsey Lily, the bulb is an oblong sphe- 

 roid, flatted most at the lower end, six or seven inches round where 

 thickest: the leaves are of a dark willow green colour, shining, from 

 halt' an inch to three quarters of an inch in breadth, a little blunt 

 at the end, from two to lour in number, rarely five. Tlse scape is 

 flattened, twelve or fourteen inches in height, and more. The spathc 

 splits, and falls back in two unc(|ual pieces of a reddish colour and 

 triangular figure. The pedicels are from an inch to almost two 

 inches in length. The number of flowers commonly from eight to 

 twelve, the circumference of each being about seven inches. The 

 corolla, when in its prime, has the colour of a fine cold tissue wrought 

 on a rose-coloured ground; and when it begins to fade, it is a pink: 

 if beheld in a full-shine, it seems to be studded with diamonds, but 

 by candle-light the specks or spangles look more like fine gold dust: 

 when the petals begin to wither, they assume a deep crimson colour. 

 The flowers begin to come out at the end of August, and the head 

 is usually three weeks in gradually expanding itself. This beauti- 



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