BULBOUS PLANTS 



NAKCISSUS TAZETTA, L., var. OEIENTALIS, FLOEE PLENO. 

 Gard. Chron. 1874, p. 385 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1001. 



Exhibited before the Floral Committee of the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society on March 18th 1874 and awarded a First-class Certificate. 



An old garden plant, figured in the Botanical Magazine as early as 

 t. 1001, but probably lost to cultivation for many years. 



TEISTIGMA NAECISSOIDES, Benth. & Hook. 



Syns. Stephanolirion narcissoides, Baker. 

 Baker in Gard. Chron. 1875, vol. iv. p. 234. 



An interesting bulbous plant from Chili, first flowered at Chelsea in 

 September 1874. 



At a first glance the flowers have the general appearance of Narcissus 

 Tazetta, with a white limb and orange crown, but further examination 

 shows the flower not an Amaryllid, but Liliaceous, more closely allied 

 to the Millas than to the Narcissus. 



Mr. Baker founded the new genus Stephanolirion on this plant, but it 

 has now been referred to Tristigma, a genus confined to only three or four 

 species. 



UECEOLINA AUEEA, Lindl. 



Syns. U. pendula, Herb. 



Gard. Chron. 1864, p. 627; id. p. 890, fig. ; Bot. Mag. t. 5464 ; PI. Mag. 1866, p. 307 ; 

 The Garden, 1888, vol. xxxiii. p. 436, pi. 648. 



This interesting bulbous plant, a native of the Andes of Peru, was first 

 detected by the travellers Euiz and Pavon and described by them in Flora 

 Peruviana, iii. p. 58, t. 287. 



Introduced to this country through Eichard Pearce in 1863, from Mufia, 

 and first flowered during the spring of the following year, it has proved 

 unusually amenable in cultivation. 



As an Amaryllid the flowers are remarkable both in colour and shape, 

 in an umbel at the apex of a scape about 1 ft. high, each resembling an 

 inverted pitcher suspended by a slender stalk ; the floral segments bright 

 yellow, tipped with green and margined white. 



WATSONIA DENSIFLOEA, Baker. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6400. 



Introduced by us from Natal through Christopher Mudd, who sent 

 home living plants collected when in the Veitchian service in that country ; 

 nrst flowered at Chelsea in August 1878. 



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