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but the colour of the flower flame-red. Segments furnished with 

 small truncate crenate membranous scales at the base. 

 Hab. Peru ; Valley of Lima, Pavon 1 



33. Z. ALBICANS Baker. Pyrolirion albicans Herb. — Leaves 

 hnear, 7-8 in. long. Peduncle 6-8 in. long. Perianth-limb 

 whitish, 4 in. long ; tube as long as the segments. 



Hab. Peru. (Lilionarcissus monanthos flore albicante tubo prselongo, 

 Feuill. Obs. iii. 29, fig. 20). 



34. Z. BOLiviENSis Baker. — Bulb globose, 1| in. diam ; neck 

 l|^-3 in. long. Leaves unknown. Peduncle slender, ^-1 ft. long. 

 Spathe an inch long. Ovary sessile, soon splitting open the spathe. 

 Perianth-limb whitish, erect, 2 in. long ; tube as long as the 

 segments, cylindrical in the lower, funnel-shaped in the upper half; 

 segments equal, oblong-lanceolate, l-\ in. broad. Stamens inserted 

 halfway up the tube ; anthers opposite the base of the segments. 

 Style deeply trifid, much overtopping the stamens. 



Hab. Bolivia; near Sorata, alt. 8000—9000 ft., Mandon 1194 in part! 

 Flowers in September. 



18. Sprekelia Heist. 



Perianth ringent, horizontal ; tube none ; upper segment 

 broadest ; two lateral lanceolate ; three lowest deflexed, rolled 

 together to enclose the stamens and style. Stamens declinate, 

 attached to the base of the segments, with minute scales between ; 

 filaments filiform ; anthers linear-oblong, versatile. Ovary turbinate, 

 6-angled, 3-celled; ovules many, superposed; style filiform; stigma 

 trifid. Caps2de globose-trigonous, loculicidally 3-valved down to the 

 base. Seeds many, discoid, narrowly winged ; testa thin, black. — 

 Monotypic. 



1. S. FORMosissiMA Hcrb. App. 35; Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. 

 ser. 2, t. 1446. S. Heisteri Trew Ehrhet, t. 24. Amaryllis formo- 

 sissiiua L. ; Bot. Mag. t. 47 ; Red. Lil. t. 5 ; Bury, Hexand. t. 6. — 

 Bulb globose, 2 in. diam. ; tunics brown. Leaves 3-6, contempo- 

 rary with the flowers in April, linear, green, finally 1-1| ft. long, 

 ^-| in. broad. Peduncle reddish, hollow, slightly compressed, 

 1-1 ft. long. Spathe red-brown, 2 in. long, bifid at the tip. Pedicel 

 about as long as the spathe, erect. Perianth bright crimson, 

 3^-4 in. long ; upper segments distinctly unguiculate, upper an 

 inch broad at the middle ; side ones ^ in. broad, recurved towards 

 the tip ; three lowest connivent in the lower half. Capsule-valves 

 orbicular, f in. broad. 



Var. S. GLAucA Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. 1841, t. 6. — Leaves glaucous. 

 Flowers smaller and paler than in the type. 



Var. S. Karwinskii Eoem. Aniaryll. 144. — Perianth less brightly 

 coloured.; segments keeled and bordered with white. 



Var. S. ringens Morren in Ann. Soc. Hort. Gand. ii. 133, t. 60. 

 — Leaves glaucous. Flower cernuous ; upper segment vittate at 

 the base and middle with yellow. 



Hab. Mexico and Guatemala, introduced into Europe in 1593. Flowers 

 with the leaves in spring. We are indebted to Colonel Trevor Clarke for the 

 capsule and ripe seeds. 



