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plants are natives of the Cape of Good Hope 

 and New Holland, and the roots of some of the 

 species yield a brilliant scarlet dye. 



ORDER CLXXXIX.— HYPOXIDEiE. 



BuLBous-RooTED plants, with lono^ narrow 

 leaves covered with soft downy hairs, and 

 rather small yellow flowers, which are frequently 

 fragrant. 



ORDER CXC— AMARYLLIDACEiE. 



A LARGE order of genera, all of which have 

 bulbous roots, and most of them splendid 

 flowers. Some of the most interesting genera 

 are — Amaryllis, Nerine (the Guernsey Lily), 

 Brunsvigia, Haemanthus, Crinum, Pancra- 

 tium, Narcissus, Galanthus (the Snowdrop), 

 Leucojum, Alstrcemeria, and Doryanthes. The 

 different kinds of Amaryllis have large lily-like 

 flowers, divided into six equal segments, which 

 are joined into a tube below, with six stamens, 

 the anthers of which are turned towards the 

 pistil, and a long style crowned with a simple 

 stigma. The ovary is beneath the other parts 

 of the flower, to which it serves as a recep- 

 tacle ; and in most of the plants it looks like a 

 small green calyx below the perianth. The 

 leaves are very long, but they are rather thick 



