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wliite, lanceolate, as long as the tube, | in. broarl. Staminal cup 

 obconic, white, striped with green, 2 in. long, above 2 in. diam. at 

 tlie tln-oat, witli rounded spreading toothed processes between the 

 free tips of the filaments, which are ^ in. long ; anthers linear, 

 ^ in. long. Style exserted from the staminal cup. 



Hab. Andes of Peru and Bolivia. Introduced into cultivation in 17'J4. 

 We have it also from Guatemala and Buenos Ayres, probably cultivated. 



31. H. Amancaes Nichols. Diet. Gard. ii. 105. X/irciasus 

 Auumcftes Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. iii. 53, fig. 283. P<tncratimii. 

 Amancdes Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 122-1; Bot. Peg. t. GOO. hnime 

 Anuinntes Herb. /. i-yiiilfolia Salisb. — Bulb globose, 1^-2 in. diam,, 

 with a cylindrical neck half a foot long. Leaves 4-5, laxly super- 

 posed, lorate, bright green, suberect. If ft. long, lf-2 in. broad. 

 Peduncle ancipitous, 1-2 ft. long. Flowers 3-G, sessile or shortly 

 pedicellate ; spathe-valves lanceolate. Perianth-tube greenish 

 yellow, 3 in. long; segments linear, bright yellow, 2-2f in. long. 

 Staminal cup obconic, 2 in. long, 2 in.- diam. at the throat, bright 

 yellow, striped with green, with incurved bifid toothed deltoid 

 processes between the free tips of the filaments, which are ^ in. 

 long ; anthers small, linear-oblong. Style sometimes exserted from 

 the staminal cup. Ovules 2 in a cell. 



Hab. Peru, especially on the Hill of Amancaes, neai' Lima. Described from 

 plants that tlowered at Kew in June — July, 1878-9. Bot, lieg. t. 16(J5 represents 

 a hybrid between this species and H. cahithina. 



47. Elisena Herb. 



Penduth-tiibe short, broadly funnel-slniped ; segments long, 

 equal, linear. Stnuiens as long as the segments, united at the base 

 in a large detlexed funnel-shaped cup ; ui)per part of filament long, 

 filiform; anthers linear, versatile. (h-ary 3-celled ; ovules 2, 

 basal, collateral ; style long, filiform ; stigma capitate. Fruit not 

 seen fully developed, but probably as in Hi/inenocallis. — Ilootstock 

 a tunicated bulb. Leaves lorate. Peduncle long, solid. Flowers 

 wliite, few in an umbel. 



1. E. RiNGENsHerb. Amaryll. 201. Fdncrdtlumrivfjens'Rmz etPav. 

 Fl. Peruv. iii. 53, t. 283. lAriope rijit/.ns Hi rb. JJriopsis rin;/ens lieicli. 

 — Bulb globose. If in. diam. Leaves 5-0, linear-lorate. If ft. long. 

 Peduncle ancipitous, longer than the leaves. Flowers about 5 in a 

 nearly sessile umbel ; spathe-valves lanceolate. Perianth-tube 

 f in. long ; segments linear, If in. long. Staminal cup fimnel- 

 shaped, fin. long; free tips of filaments 1-1:^ in. long; anthers 

 linear- oblong. Style overtopping the anthers. 



Hab. Andes of Peru. 



2. E. suBLiMis Herb, in Bot. Mag. sub t. 3873. — Habit and 

 leaves of F. riw/ms. Flowers about in an umbel ; pedicels 

 f-f in. long ; spathe-va^lves larger. Perianth-tube under f in. 

 long ; segments linear. 2 in. long. Staminal cup longer ; free 

 tips of filaments only f in. long. 



Hab. Andes of Peru ; Caxamarquilla, gathered b.y Maclean. 



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