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longer than the segments ; anthers oblong, ^ in. long. Style 

 straight, nearly 2 in. long. 



Var. N. Plantii Hort. — Peduncle longer than in the type. 

 Flower a duller crimson ; segments more distinctly unguiculate. 



Var. N. VENUSTA Herb. App. 19 ; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1090.— 

 Leaves pale green. Flowers bright scarlet, produced late in Sep- 

 tember ; segments rather wavy, very falcate. 



Var. N. PROFUSA Hort. — Leaves dark green. Flowers bright 

 scarlet, produced late in August ; segments narrower and more 

 acute, less wavy and less falcate than in venusta. 



Var. N. ROSEA Herb. App. 19 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2124. — Leaves 

 darker than in the type. Flowers rose-red. Seeds oblong. 



Var. N. coRUSCA Herb. App. 19. Amaryllis corusca Gawl. A. 

 humilis var., Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1089. — Leaves broader than in 

 the type, bright green, with distinct cross-bars between the main 

 veins. Flowers large, bright scarlet, resembling those of V. curvi- 

 folia. A connecting link between species 1 and 2. N. corusca major 

 Hort. is a form with large flowers, and leaves widening at the 

 middle. 



Hab. Southern provinces of Cape Colony. Has been cultivated largely in 

 the Channel Islands for 200 years under the name of the " Guernsey lily," from 

 which the Latin name is derived. It was grown at Paris in 1634, and by Gen. 

 Lambert at Wimbledon in 1659. Flowers generally in September and October. 

 Sir Charles Strickland regards Plantii as probably a hybrid hetweenvenusta and 

 Jiexiiosa. 



2. N. CURVIFOLIA Herb. App. 19. Amaryllis curvifolia Jacq. 

 Hort. Schoen. i. 83, t. 64 ; Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 725^; Bed. Lil. 

 t. 274. — Bulb ovoid, 1^-2 in. diam. ; tunics pale brown. Leaves 

 about 6, developed after the flowers, linear, obtuse, curved laterally, 

 thicker in texture than in N. sarniensis, more or less glaucous, 

 closely veined, finally a foot long, -I— | in. broad. Umbel 8-12- 

 flowered, centripetal; pedicels and spathe-valves as in N. sarniensis. 

 Perianth erect, bright scarlet, l|~li- in. long ; segments oblanceo- 

 late, ^ in. broad, equally falcate, little crisped. Stamens suberect, 

 a little longer than the segments. Style straight, finally 2 in. long. 



Var. N. FoTHERGiLLi Eoem. Amaryll. 104. Amaryllis Fothergilli 

 Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 163. — More robust in all its parts. Flowers 

 more numerous, between crimson and scarlet. 



Hab. Southern provinces of Cape Colony. Introduced in 1788. Flowers 

 in the latter half of September. 



3. N. MooREi Leichtlin in Gard. Chron. n. s., vol. xxvi. 681. — 

 Leaves produced a little after the flowers, lorate, bright green, 

 much curved, slightly twisted, 9-12 in. long, ^-f in. broad. Pe- 

 duncle compressed, shorter than the leaves. Flowers 6-9 in a 

 centripetal umbel ; pedicels |-1 in. long ; spathe-valves longer 

 than the pedicels. Perianth suberect, bright scarlet ; segments 

 oblanceolate, crisped, 1^ in. long, I in. broad. Filaments suberect, 

 longer than the perianth-segments. Style straight, 1^ in. long. 



Hab. Cape Colony. Described from a plant sent to Max Leichtlin from 

 Mr. F. W. Moore, of the Glasnevin Garden. 



4. N. FLEXuosA Herb. App. 10. Amaryllis jlexuosa J aicq. Hort. 



