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THE BLAND AMARYLLIS. 
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" This beautiful plant was found bj Niven, who collected for Mr. Hibbert^ and I believe has 
never since been met with by any collector. I purchased one of the bulbs when Mr, Hibbert dis- 
posed of his collection^ and Mr. Griffin had another. Mr. Knight^ of the King's Eoad^ Chelsea^ 
who had the rest, killed them by planting them in the open ground^ which they will not endure in 
this country, and I believe there are no bulbs of it in Europe but the produce of those two. I lost 
two by planting tliem in front of the stove ; one died the first winter, the other only lingered till the 
second. The leaves of this and the following species, when cut by frost or drought at the points, 
will not continue to grow like those of Belladonna, It requires an airy situation in the greenhouse 
in winter, drought and dry heat in summer, and will then flower magnificently in September. 
Whatever may have been the growth of its leaves, it will not flower if it is left in a cold situation 
while dry/' 
It is very near the well-known Belladonna Lily^ especially a palhd variety of that species, not 
ens : but it is auite different 
ovary 
The flowers 
are moreover more numerous, more fragrant, and more horizontal. The late Mr. Ker, when he 
originally published it, observed that it would be superfluous to particularize difi^erences, which a 
ficures 
"In Belladonna 
igmcnts 
the appearance of their so doing ; the leaves are of a dark dingy green, scarcely more than half an 
inch broad, and never attain a length in any way equalling the scape ; which circumstances are here 
mentioned, because they were omitted in our account of that species. Blanda is a native of the 
Cape of Good Hope, where it was gathered by Sir Joseph Banks; was sent to Miller in 1754 by 
Yan Eoyen from Holland, and flowered in the Chelsea Garden.'' 
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