NERINE 



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NERINE 



than the type and has more flowers 

 in the umbels (And. Bot. Rep. t. 

 163). It is undoubtedly one of the 

 finest and most free-flowering Nerines 

 in cultivation, and should prove to be 

 a valuable plant for market work if 

 grown in large numbers. 



N. elegans (N.flexuosa x N. rosea). 

 A fine hybrid with crimson flowers. 

 The variety coerulea has crimson 

 flowers tinted with blue, while alba 

 has pure white blossoms. 



N. filifolia. Flowers eight to ten in 

 an umbel, on scapes 1 ft. high. 

 Petals deflexed, bright red, 1 in. long. 

 (Bot. Mag. t. 6547.) 



N. flexuosa. In this species the 

 bright green leaves about 1 ft. long, 

 and sometimes roughened with 

 pustules on the face, appear at the 

 same time as the flowers, about Sep- 

 tember. The flexuose scape is 

 sometimes 2 to 3 ft. high, and bears 

 an umbel of ten to twenty pale pink 

 flowers with wavy petals 1 j ins. long. 

 (Bot. Reg. t. 172.) 



There are several varieties, such as 

 angustifolia, having very narrowleaves 

 (Ref. Bot. t. 329); pulchella, leaves 

 firmer in texture than in the type, 

 scape not flexuose,! and flowers pale 

 pink with a rose - red keel to the 

 segments (Bot. Mag. t. 2407); alba, 

 with white flowers ; and Sandersoni, 

 with broader leaves and less wavy 

 petals. 



N. humilis. This comes near N. 

 jlexuosa, but is dwarfer in growth and 

 has narrower and more deeply 

 channelled leaves. About ten to 

 twenty pink or rose-red flowers with 

 deflexed petals are borne on slender 

 scapes 6 to 18 ins. high. (Bot. Mag. 

 t. 726 ; Red. Lil. t. 449.) 



N. Manselli (N. flexuosa x N. 

 Fothergilli). This fine hybrid com- 

 memorates Mr Mansell, a hybridist 

 of Guernsey. It has broader leaves 

 than other kinds, produced at the same 



time as the bright rosy flowers, in 

 November and December. The 

 scapes are about 2 ft. high, and the 

 umbels 6 ins. through, having from 

 twelve to eighteen blossoms with 

 recurved segments. (Gard., November 

 1899.) 



N. Meadowbankl (N. sarniensisx 

 N. Fothergilli). This seems to be 

 merely a form of JV, Fothergilli. 



N. Moorel. Closely related to 2T. 

 curvifolia, but distinguished by its 

 bright green (not blue-green), slightly 

 twisted leaves, 9 to 12 ins. long and 

 to | in. broad. Flowers bright 

 scarlet with wavy segments, and 

 borne six to nine in an umbel on 

 flattened scapes about 9 ins. high. 



N. pancratioides. This species has 

 long narrow leaves, roundish in the 

 lower half. The scapes are about 

 2 ft. high, and bear umbels of 

 twelve to twenty white flowers, which 

 have small square bifid scales between 

 each of the filaments, as in Pancratium. 

 (Gard. Chron. 1891, x. 576.) 



N. pudica. This species has narrow 

 blue-green leaves 8 to 9 ins. long, and 

 slender scapes 1 to 1| ft. high, 

 bearing umbels of ivory-white flowers 

 sometimes keeled with pink, the 

 petals being very slightly wavy (Bot. 

 Mag. t. 5901). The variety Elwesi 

 has broader [leaves, more compact 

 umbels, and pale rose flowers of a 

 more substantial texture, and alba 

 has snow-white blossoms. N. Strick- 

 landi is a hybrid between N. pudica 

 and N. curvifolia. 



N. sarnie n sis. This is the 

 "Guernsey Lily" which has been 

 cultivated in the Channel Islands for 

 two hundred years. It has ovoid 

 bulbs l to 2 ins. in diameter, and 

 bright green narrow leaves developed 

 after the flowers. From ten to 

 twenty of these are borne in an 

 umbel on slender scapes 1 to Ij ft. 

 high in September. They are bright 



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