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THE BLAND AMARYLLIS. 
(AMARYLLIS BLANPA.) 
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A Stove Bulbous Plant from the Cape of Good Hope, belonging to the Natural Order 0/ Amarylltds. 
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rzr^ ^Z4i\rz) AM ARYLLIS.—Flowei-s horizontal, closely I AMARYLLIS BLANDA ; floribus horizontalibuB dense 
umbellatis. In ^. Belladonna flores pauciores suberecti, 
umbelled, with a short tube. In A, Belladonna the 
flowers are somewhat erect and fewer, and there is no 
tube at all 
et tubus nullus. 
AmarylHs blanda : Ker hi Botanical Magazine, vol. xxxv. t. 1450 ; Hcrhert, ATnaryllidacece, p. 277. 
jpoR the opportunity of figuring this beautiful plant we are indebted to Mrs. Bellenden Ker, in whose 
collection, at Cheshunt, it flowered last September. It was bought in a lot marked '^ Hybrid/' at 
Manchester 
grew 
going to rest ; and suspicion arose that the stove was not the right place for it. But last year, 
while apparently at rest, it threw up two large flower-stems, loaded with fragrant bloom. The bulb 
is covered with a pale brown soft skin, composed of multitudes of thin layers filled with cottony 
threads. The leaves are grass-green, an inch and a quarter broad, with a regularly-rounded point. 
Twelve or thirteen beautiful large flowers, thin, delicate Trench white, changing to pink, load the 
end of the scape, forming an umbel of great sweetness. 
There can be no doubt that it is the identical Amaryllis hlanda figured thirty-eight years a^-o in 
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