546 AMARYLLIDEAE brown. (Lycoris.) 



fum , rotundate trigonum ; loculis inferne biseriato-4-spermis, 

 superne vacuis, angulo intimo obtusiusculo, lutescente. Ovula 

 alba, opaca, obovata, pressione subdeformata, imae loculi parti 

 affixa, subimbricato-adscendentia. Gawl. verb. mut. 



2. L. RADIATA Herh. App. 20. Id. in Bot. Mag.fol.2llo. 

 p. 5. Ej. Amaryll. 229. Roem. Am. 146. Limbi laciniis radiato- 

 rcflexis, linearibus, undulato-crispis (omnibus vel 5 tantum in 

 labium superius semicirculatim radians approximatis Gawl.) ; in- 

 fima divaricata; foliis lineari-Iigulatis, glaucis; scapo compresso; 

 genitalibus declinatis, limbo duplo longioribus. Roem. Amaryl- 

 lis radiata UHerit. Sert. 16. Ait. Kew. 1. 421. ed. 2. 2. 228. 

 Willd. Spec. 2.60. Andr.Bot. Rep.t.95. Gawl.in Bol. Reg. #.596. 

 et in Journ. of sc. 2. 364. Ejusd. Revis. 22. Schult. Syst. 7. 831. 

 Roxh. Flor. Ind. 2. 140. Lilio-Narcissus V. Trew. Fl. imag. t. 35. 

 (nec Seligm. Aves. 35.) Yuk-lan Chinens. — Cbina, Japonia; in 

 Coromandelia culta. 2|- — Bulbus ovatus, mole fere ovi colum- 

 bini ; tunica pallide fusca. Folia subtrina (in icone 12), Hneari- 

 ligulata, obtusula, in virorem obscuriorem glaucescentia, canali- 

 culo medio lateribus planioribus glauciore, semunciam v. circa 

 lata. Scapus spitbamaeus — sesquipedalis , compresso - tcres ; 

 erectus, simul cum foliis vigens. Spatba spbacelata, 4-5-flora, 

 pedunculis pluries longior; peduncnli virides, firmi, tereti-angu- 

 losi, corolla pluries breviores. Corolla inodora, horizontali-pa- 

 tens , roseo-micans (in iconc miniato - rosea) , diametro fere 

 triunciali, divaricato-radians, semiformi-irregularis, aequalis ; tu- 

 bus virescens, brevissimus vel subnullus, decurvus, compresso- 

 cylindraceus, germinis subisoperimeter; limbus 6-partitus, uni- 

 labiatus vel inaequalissime bilabiatus; laciniis distantibus, lineari- 

 lingulatis, latitudine bilineari vel circa, subaequalibus, undulatis, 

 canaliculatis, mucronatis, superne recurvis, carina media dorsi 

 virescente, omnibus aut summam mediam versus in labium su- 

 perius convergentibus, aut nunc ex istis una distantissima sub 

 staminibus pro labio inferiore per se manente. Filamenta de- 

 clinato-assur^entia, corolla concolore duplo fere longiora, pro- 

 stanter divergentia , firma, subulato-elongata , tubi ori inserta. 

 Antberae parvulae, oblongae, vibratiles, coccineae; polline flavo. 

 Stylus filamentis conformis atque concolor, robustior tamen at- 

 que longior (triuncialis vel ultra). Stigma : punctum simplex, 

 pruinosum, albicans. Germen virens^ trigibbo-globosum ; ovulis 

 pluribus (4?) biseriafis globosis in quoque loculamento. Gawl., 

 qui Amaryllidi undulatae proximam dicit. 



3. L. STRAMINEA Lindl. in Journ. of the Horlic. Soc. 3. 

 76. adn. Walp. Ann. hot. syst. 1. 834. Ovario subsphaerico; 

 tubo brevissimo ; perianfbii laciniis lineari-oblongis, undulatis ; 

 staminibus brevioribus. Lindl. — China. 



