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PHÆDRANASSA CHLORACRA, 
Amarillydaceæ $ Amaryllideæ-Hippeastreæ. 一 Hexandria-Monogynia. 
CHARACT. GENERIS.— Phedranassa : Germen de- 
flexum ا‎ oblongum apice constricto. Tubus 
crassus decurvus latere e are — 
tato compactus pro ofunde sexsulca e angustato. 
Limbus pendulus , laciniis en کی‎ 
sepalis infer ne margine , ray instar 2 و و‎ 
superne lamina latiore enta nata ain 
ferne gr radatim latiora pes "tubi foci em # riter i 
serta icue decurrentia recta, e eme tria 
i er æ breves ve: 
capo rasse carnoso auguste fistulato; 
foliis ا‎ pitts iolat 
W. Hers. en reg. misc. 23. 1845. et sub 
tab. 17. eodem anno 
CHARACT. SPECIEI. — P. Caule — 
wes — sexflora ; spatha Ve ta marc 
be culis subæqualibus s 5/8 778 unc. , viridibus, 
ne 516 iridi; peria 
nthio ltra v. sub- 
bDiunciali is: fees viridibus وت سس‎ pallido 
subundulato subacutis; stylo per 
tis albis s img is pal- 
lide sub cutis petiolo 
1-2- De pom subpedali circiter 2 374 uncias 
— Ww l. c. 
Phycella chloracra W. Hers. Amaryll. pé He- 
manthus dubius Hume et Bonet. Kra, Nov. et 
p. L. 281. 
Texte du Botanical Register de M. Lindley. 
PHÆDRANASSA CHLORACR A. 
CRIMSON AND GREEN PHÆDRANASSA. 
ETYMOLOGY. 
GENERIC CHARACTER 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
see hereafter. 
| see above. 
This is one of the curious bulbs met with by Mr. Hartweg in Peru. It occurred on rocks at the 
When the learned Dean of Manchester recast the genera of Amaryllids , 
remove the plant from Hæmanthus h 
stationed it in Phycella, to which it appeared more likely to belong. 
wers h 
as an approach to Stenomesson and Pen 
certainly removes it from that genus. 
ws the manner in which the bases of the filaments are connected with the ovary; 
1 
a UE section of the o 
Another species of Phæ idi 
9 e miscellaneous matter 
assa is the 
ovince of Quito, 
place where Humboldt and B 
at an elevation of about 9,000 feet above the sea, and sup 
as however shewed that it constitutes a peculiar genus, to -— h Dr. 
name of Phædranassa (it is to be presumed from Qaidyos gay, and # 
,000 feet above the level of the sea 
onpland found their zen m it is not improbable that it is 
to 
Herbert has given the 
«cc quee 
en) He regards it 
andia. The want of the Wor, faucial scales of Phycella 
2. is 
iip obtusa, mentioned in the last volume of this 
was also one of the discoveries of Mr. Hartweg , 
in the valley of San Antonio, in the 
was the 
of P. obtusa rather than chloracra that this plant is a syno 
Both species of Phædranassa are greenhouse bulbs, pied zu same 
tei ion qui 
(1) M. W. Herbert écrit fistule er Nous n’avons pas osé consacrer ici une telle locution qui, 
niste, serait un véritable barbarism 
kind of treatment as Phy- 
aux yeux d'un huma- 
Cu. L. 
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