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Var. H. ACUMINATUM Koem. Amaryllis acuminata Gawl. in Bot. 

 Eeg. t. 534 & 1188. A. pulverulenta Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 484 ; Bury, 

 Hexand. t. 45. H. pulveridentum Herb, in Bot. Mag. t. 2273. — 

 Flowers pale pink ; segments very acute. 



Hab. South Brazil, especially about Eio Janeiro, Miers 3123 ! 3598 ! 

 Glaziou 8991 I Tiveediel Vauthierl H. Martianum and haliiense Koem., and 

 H. glaucescens Herb, appear to be also varieties of this very variable species. 

 Introduced into cultivation about 1810. 



37. H. viTTATUM Herb. App. 31. Amaryllis vittata Ait. ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 129 ; L'Herit. Sert. t. 15 ; Red. Lil. t. 10 ; Bury, Hexand. 

 t. 32 & 40. — Bulb globose, 2-3 in. diam. Leaves 6-8, lorate, 

 bright green, l-|-2 ft. long. Peduncle 2-3 ft. long. Umbel 2-6- 

 flowered ; spathe-valves lanceolate, 2-3 in. long ; pedicels as long 

 as the spatlie. Perianth-limb 4-6 in. long ; tube funnel-shaped, 

 an inch long, obscurely coronulate at the throat ; segments obovate- 

 oblong, acute, 1-1^ in. broad, white towards the edge and distinctly 

 keeled with white, striped with bright mauve-red between the keel 

 and edge ; expanded limb 3-5 in. diam. Stamens shorter than the 

 perianth-hmb ; anthers linear-oblong, ^ in. long. Style as long as 

 the limb ; stigma deeply trifid. 



Hab. Andes of Peru, introduced into Europe in 1769. There is a specimen 

 at the British Museum dried from the garden of Mr. Malcolm in 1777. Flowers 

 in April and May. It varies much in the size of the flower and distinctness of 

 the stripes. Var. minor Bury, Hexand. t. 40, has a perianth 4 in. long. Var. 

 Harrisonice Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 988, is probably a hybrid between vittatum and 

 solandrifiorum (Bury, Hexand. t. 27). 



38. H. BREviFLOKUM Herb. Amaryll. 137, t. 21, fig. 4 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 3549. — Bulb ovoid, 2-3 in. diam. Leaves lorate, green, 

 1|- ft. long, 1|~1^ in. broad. Peduncle terete, glaucous, 2-3 ft. 

 long. Umbel 5-6-flowered ; spathe-valves lanceolate ; pedicels 

 slender, 2-3 in. long. Perianth-limb 2-|- in. long, funnel-shaped ; 

 tube very short ; segments oblanceolate-oblong, subacute, white, 

 keeled with red, the outer | in. broad above the middle, the lowest 

 inner ^ in. Stamens shorter than the limb ; anthers small, oblong. 

 Style shorter than the limb ; stigma trifid. 



Hab. Buenos Ayres, Tweedie ! First flowered in cultivation at Glasgow in 

 April, 1836. 



Hybrids. 



The broad-leaved species of Hippeastrum hybridise with great 

 facility, and the original hybrids can be easily intercrossed. Since 

 the year 1799, when H. lieyvice was first crossed with H. vittatum 

 by a watchmaker of Prescot, in Lancashire, called Johnson, after 

 whom the hybrid was named, a very large number of beautiful 

 types have been produced. About 100 of these, with Latin names, 

 are enumerated, and their parentage given in the second edition of 

 Sweet's 'British Flower Garden,' in 1830.''' Up to that time the 



* See also Herbert, Amaryll. 335 ; Trans. Hort. Soc. iii. 196, iv. 42 ; Journ. 

 Hort. Soc. ii. 19 ; Gowen in Trans. Hort. Soc. iv. 498 ; Lindley in Trans. Hort. 

 Soc. V. 337 ; Kunth, Enum. v. 529 ; Miss Kosenberg's ' Corona Amaryllidacea,' 

 published at Bath in 1839, with coloured plates of five hybrids ; Dietrich in 

 Berlin Gartenzeit. 1884, 121 ; K. Koch, Wochenschrift, 1864, 17, 30, 37; Goldring 

 in Garden, 1883, 193 ; Douglas in Garden, 1887, 250, t. 614 ; and G. Don in 

 Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. ed. 3, pp. 671—675. 



