428 AMARYLLIS FAMILY. 



5. SPREKELIA. (./. //. Sprekelsen, a German botanist of last cen- 

 tury, who wrote upon liliaceous plants.) 



5. formosissima, Herb. JAcoBEA>f or St. James's Lilv. Cult, from 

 Mexico ; scape 2^^ high, bearing a single large and declined deep crimson- 

 red flower, with hardly any tube, and 2-lipped, as it were, three divisions 

 recurved-spreading upwards, three turned downwards, these at base 

 involute around the lower part of the deflexcd stamens and style. 



6. NERINE. (Name of the water nymph.) Cape of Good Hope. 



N. Sarniensis, Herb. Guernsey Lii>y. Scape 2°-3° high, bearing an 

 umbel of wavy pale salmon-colored flowers, which have the segments 

 recurved ; leaves thick, appearing after the flowers. There are crimson- 

 flowered forms. 



7. ZEPHYRANTHES. (Greek: rrind flower, a fanciful name.) 

 Generally called Amakvllis in gardens. 



Z. Atamasco, Herb. Atamasco Lily. Penn., S. in low grounds ; 

 scape ()'-12' high, mostly shorter than the glossy leaves ; flower 2'-3' 

 long, single from a 2-cleft spathe, regular, funnel-form, white and pink- 

 ish ; stamens and style declined. 



Z. c&ndida, Herb. Peruvian Swamp Lily. Flowers pure white, not 

 fragTant, rising just above the bright green fleshy leaves (scape 6'-12' 

 high); segments nearly equal, ovate and obtuse, an inch long. S. Amer. 



Z. rdsea, Lindl. Fairy Lily. Flowers larger, rose-colored, regular 

 and erect ; segments rotate, sharp-pointed, green below the middle ; plant 

 tufted, the leaves striate. Cuba. 



8. HIPPEASTRUM. (Greek : Jniir/ht and star, from some fancied 

 resemblance in the flowers of H. equestre.) Often known in gardens 

 as Amaryllis. ^ ^i^icer clear white, red-striped. 



H. vittatum, Herb. Peru; double red feathery stripes on each of the 

 segments (which are erose and more or less recurved at the tip); tube 

 trumpet-like, about twice longer than the lobes, greenish. Very hand- 



^°™®' * * Floioers red or orange. 



H. aOlicum, Herb. Lily of the Palace. T^razil ; flower very large 

 and handsome, the large segments crimson and striate, with a blotcli of 

 red-purple and a green base ; leaves green and striate ; l°-2° high ; tube 

 very short and open, the segments widely spreading. 



H. equestre, Herb. Barhauos Lily. Mexico ; flowers medium large 

 and normally orange-red, but running into light red and striped sorts; 

 stamens strongly curved upwards at their ends ; tube slender and curved, 

 becoming dilated, mostly longer than the wavy-cuspidate segments. 



//. ReglncB, Herb. Mexico ; has 2-4 large, almo.st regular nodding 

 flowers, crimson-red, with hardly any tube, and the deflexcd stamens 

 curved strongly upwards at the end. 



H. JoHNsoNi is a robust hybrid with dull red flowers, each segment 

 with a white stripe. Common. 



9. CRINUM. (Greek name for a Lily.) Showy conservatory plants, 

 chiefly from tropical regions ; one wild S. 



* Flowers red. 



C. amdbi/e, Donn. The huge bulb rising into a column ; leaves becom- 

 ing several feet long and .3'-.5' wide ; flowers numerous, 8'-10' long, crim- 

 son-purple outside, paler or white within. Sumatra. 



