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A. Vei-schaffcltii striata. Peacock, List. 1. (1878). 



Variegation creamy yellow, in unequal stripes tovvard the middle. — 

 Merely a stage of the following, comparable in this respect with the less perfect 

 form of A. aiiiericaiui medio-picta. 



A. Hookeri medio-picta (1871). 



A. Verschafeltii rariegata. Florist & Pomol. 1S71 : 189; 1S72 : 3. - 

 Hamburg. Gart.- u. Blumen-Zeit. 27: 419. (1871). —Peacock, List. 1. (1878). 



? A. Verschaffeltü medio-picta. Baker, Handbook Amaryllid. 177. (1888). 



Variegation creamy yellow, median. 



One of the new importations listed by 

 J. Verschaffelt in 186Q— 70 was called Atjave 

 Verschafeltii fol. luteo striatis. It is recorded that 

 on July 5, 1871, Mr. Peacock received an 

 award in London for an exhibition plant of 

 Ä. Verschafeltii vaviegata. On the IQ the of the 

 same month, Verschaffelt himself exhibited 

 in London a specimen called A. Mescal fol. 

 striatis, which Mr. Peacock is understood to 

 have bought subsequently. The list of this gentle- 

 man's collection, published in 1878, makes no 

 mention of A. Mescal but includes a oariegata 

 and a striata under VerscJiafeltii, which seem to 

 correspond to the exhibition plants of 1871, 

 the first of which is noted by one of the Jour- 

 nals as having- a golden band down the center. 

 Both appear to be of the mediopicta-striata type, 

 and the confusion of names under the multiform Verschafeltii 

 makes it probable, in the absence of definite knowledge to the con- 

 trary, that these plants and an .4. Verschafdtii media picta of D e 

 Smet, noted by Baker under A. ScoJipnus, were of common origin. 



The name .1. Mescal was probably attached by Koch to the 

 second plant in London, on the occasion of his visit to the ex- 

 hibition, for that species appears scarcely to have been known 

 except to him and its collector Roezl, and it was never adequately 

 described though perfectiy distinct from Verschafeltii in several 

 foliage respects, e. g. a thinner leaf margin and involute-grooved 

 nearly straight end spine, in addition to the alternating inequality 

 of its prickles which made its author confuse it at one time with 

 the different species that he called .1. inaequidens. The unvariegated 

 form was grown at the Paris Garden as Ä. helerodon, and called 

 by Geis A. Versclia f el f ii inaeqtädens. j acobi merged all in his own 



^l. Xijloiiacantha. 



