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HANDBOOK OF AMARYLLIDE^. 



Hab. Mexico, the most widely-spread species next to A. americana. It 

 was figured by Commelinus in 1706. Tlie above description was made from a 

 plant that flowered with Mr, Wilson Saunders in 1870. We have it in flower 

 from Madras (1810), Coimbra (1881), and Hong-Kong (1882). A leaf, 6 ft. long 

 and 7 in. broad, sent from the Bahamas^ by the Colonial Secretary in 1887, 

 apparently belongs to this species. 



74. A. Salmdyckii Baker in Gard. Chron. 1877, ii. 490. A. 

 Keratto Salmclyck et Jacobi non Miller. — Acaulescent. Leaves 

 40-50 in a rosette, oblanceolate, 4-5 ft. long, 5-6 in. broad above 

 the middle, narrowed to 4-5 in. above the base, bright green, the 

 end-spine scarcelj^ pungent, the crowded minute deltoid-cuspidate 

 dark-brown spines not more than l-12th in. long. Inflorescence 

 unknown. 



Hab. Mexico. Described from living plants at Kew and Eeigate in 1872. 



75. A. (Euagave) Morrisii Baker in Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 643, fig. 

 105. — Acaulescent. Leaves 20-30 in a rosette, oblanceolate-spathu- 

 late, 4-6 ft. long, ^-1 ft. broad above the middle, narrowed to 4-6 in. 

 above the base, green, hardly at all glaucous, quite smooth on 

 both surfaces, the pungent end-spine an inch long, the subdistant 

 deltoid-cuspidate dark brown prickles i-i in. long. Peduncle 

 including the thyrsoid panicle 15-20 ft. long ; branches 30-50, 

 the lower horizontal, above a foot long. Flowers 2-2f in. long ; 

 tube short ; segments bright yellow, an inch long. Stamens nearly 

 twice as long as the segments. Capsule an inch long. 



Hab. Jamaica, confused by Grisebach and others with A. americana. 

 The data for describing it have been collected by Mr. Morris, now Assistant- 

 Director of Kew Gardens, during his residence in the island, and he has also 

 introduced into cultivation at Kew both the type and a fine form with variegated 

 leaves. 



Group 6. — Steiat^. 



76. A. (Littaa) striata Zuccar. in Nova Acta xvi. 2, 678 ; 

 Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4950. — Acaulescent or shortly caulescent. 

 Leaves 150-200 in a dense rosette, linear from a very dilated base, 

 2-2|- ft. long, 1-1 in. broad above the base, narrowed gradually 

 to the brown pungent tip, scabrous on the edge, glaucous green, 

 the face rather raised, the back subtriquetrous, both surfaces 

 marked with close vertical ribs. Peduncle including the dense 

 2-3 ft. spike 6-8 ft. long. Flowers 1-li in. long ; tube broadly 

 funnel-shaped, about equalhng the brownish-green oblong seg- 

 ments. Stamens purple, 1^ in. long, inserted low down in the 

 tube. Capsule oblong- trigonous, f in. long. 



Var. A. REcuRVA Zuccar. loc. cit. — Leaves larger and more 

 falcate than in the type, reaching 3-4 ft. End-spine not pungent. 



Var. A. STRicTA Salmdyck. A. Hystrix Hort. — Leaves very 

 stiff, about a foot long, more convex on the face. 



Var. A. ECHiNoiDEs Jacobi, Nacht. 48. A. ensiformis and 

 Uichardsii Hort. — Still dwarfer and stiffer than var. stricta, the 

 leaves only half a foot long, \ in. broad at the middle. 



Hab. Mountains of Mexico, now common in cultivation under a large 

 number of forms. It was figured in the ' Botanical Magazine ' from a plant 

 that flowered at Kew in 1856, sent from Real del Monte by Mr. Repper. We 

 have two photographs of a plant that flowered with Signor Fenzi at Florence in 



