AMARYLLIDEAE brown. (Hippeastrum.) 517 



foliis parum brcvior, robustus, rectus, cylindraceo-attenuatus, 

 levissimc compressus, glaucus, estriatus, inferne purpurascens. 

 Spatha bivalvis, membranosa, striatula. Flores duo, maximi, 

 diutini, subflavido-virentes, nutantes , pedicellati , 5-unciales, ab 

 imo pedicello ad summa stigmata usque 9-unciales, bis altio- 

 res spatba, inodori. Pedicelli calamum crassi , subaequales, 

 ovario paruin longiores, virentes, rotundato-trigoni. Ova- 

 rium obesius pedicello, unciale, obsolete pulvinato - trilobum, 

 laeve, exsulcum, non glaucum. Perigonii rictus transversim la- 

 tior; tubus ovario snbisoperimeter, rectus, cylindraceus, obso- 

 lete triangularis, intensius virens, bis brevior limbo ; limbus 6- 

 partitus, semiringens, infra imbricatus, chloroleucus, clathrato- 

 venosus; laciniis subaequalibus, lanceolatis, acutis, versus mar- 

 gincm pallidioribus, undulatis ; exterioribus 3 dorso gibbosiori- 

 bus, carina saturate virentibus, inflexis, mucrone compresso; 

 interioribus 3 disco planioribus, involutis, reflexis ; summa media 

 arcuata, antrorsum depressa, lateribus reflexa ; lateralibus ejus binis 

 divaricato-recurvis, sublatioribus, sursum obliquatis ; inferioribus 3 

 inter se aequalibus, prostantioribus : lateralibus2 mediam summam 

 rcfcrentibus, ima media laterales 2 summas. Corona faucialis 

 ore triangulose contracta. *) Stainina exserta, fasciculata, de- 

 clinato-assurgentia. Filamenta robusta, tereti-trigona, subulato- 

 attenuata , ruborc lurido obsoletc varia. Antherae violaceae, 

 pollinc flavo. Stylus staminum concolor, longior atquc cras- 

 sior. Stigmata revoluta. Gawl. Addenda ex notis ejusd. : La- 

 ciniae limbi disco latcritio-punctatac, punctis saepe lineato-con- 

 fluentibus. Capsula oblato-ovata, triventri-triloba, supra breve 

 arctata, lobis pulvinatis, superne gibbosis, ventre tumido, deor- 

 sum promisso. Semina foliaceo- compressa, numerosa (200 v. 

 ultra), ordine duplici deorsum obliquata, marginc interiore sibi 

 invicem incumbentia, elliptico- oblonga, uncialia, fumosa. mem- 

 brana amplissiina subdiaphana alata. Albumcn verticale, casta- 

 nco-carnosum, album, anguste obovatum, inferne versus attenua- 

 tum, compressum, retentum funiculis interaneis duobus, quorum 

 unus rectc ab umbilico ductus, alter prope apiccm enatus, re- 

 flectitur sccundum latus ; hinc lineac 2 opacae parallelae, quibus 

 alam insigniri videmus. 



4. H. PSITTAClNUItf Herb. App. 31. Ej. Amaryll. 136. Roem. 

 Am. 132. Floribus 2, viridibus, puniceo-maculatis et margina- 

 tis ; sepalis latissimis ; coronula conspicua; sepalo superiore de- 

 presso. Herb. Amaryllis psittacina GawL in Bol. Jteg. t. 199. 

 Lodd. Bof. Cab. t. 1204. Hook. in Bot. iUog. fol. 3528.**) Schult. 



°) Crown shallow, membranous, colourles, entire, surrouuding the 

 tilaments at their base, but not connecting them like a web, as in Pan- 

 cratium. 



"O Amaryllis psittaciua f hybrida Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 3528. 

 eet eadem ac Hippeastrum Griffini. Herb. Am. 409. 



