1/6 GENERAL REVIEW. 



and is further remarkable as its anthers contain no fertile pollen, 

 although apparently well formed. 



A. h&mantha, A. aurea, A. pulchella, A. versicolor, A. 

 Hcrokeri, and A. chilensis have produced numerous forms, and 

 their representatives are now grown in our best gardens, they 

 being perfectly hardy on warm well-drained soils. One of 

 the oldest of the cultivated species is A. pelegrina. Linnaeus 

 first received seeds of this plant from Peru, and it was grown 

 at Kew so early as 1753. (See ' Bot. Mag./ t. 139). 



Amaryllis. A showy genus of Cape bulbs, represented 

 in our gardens by A. Belladonna, A. blanda, A. pallida, A. 

 (Brunsvigia) grandiflora, A. Josephine, and others. The two 

 last-named plants have produced fertile seeds crossed with 

 A. blanda, although very distinct in habit. The habit of 

 Amaryllis is to flower in autumn before the appearance of the 

 leaves, and this is a great drawback, to remedy which a cross 

 between Amaryllis and Valotta has been by some recom- 

 mended, and attempted without success, in order to obtain if 

 possible evergreen varieties, or varieties which would produce 

 foliage synchronously with their flowers. This genus must 

 not be confounded with Hipptastrum, a much more tractable 

 and variable genus of allied plants from Brazil. All cultivators 

 interested in these and allied bulbous plants should see the 

 remarks on the hybridisation of this genus in Dean Herbert's 

 ' Amaryllidacese,' p. 278. 



Orinum. A large genus of remarkably stately bulbs, mostly 

 natives of tropical Asia, South America, Australasia, and South 

 Africa, and represented in our gardens by numerous species 

 and varieties. One of the best-known plants in this group is 

 C. amabile, which the late Dean Herbert believed to be a 

 spontaneous hybrid between C. procerum and C. zeylanicum. 

 C. capense and some of its forms are quite hardy, only needing 

 a mulching during the winter to protect them from wet. In 

 some gardens this is called C. longifolia. C. Mitchamice, is (or 

 was ?) a very stately hybrid, also hardy, its parents being C. 

 capense and C. australe. C. Herbertii, which bears blush-red 

 striped flowers, is the offspring of C. scabrwn and C. capense. 

 This last-named species is figured as an illustration to the late 

 Dean Herbert's celebrated " Observations on the production of 

 Hybrid Plants." (See ' Trans. Hort. Soc.,' iii. 187.) 



The first hybrid Crinum appears to have been raised about 

 1813 in the greenhouse of the Earl of Carnarvon at Highclere. 

 R. J. Gowen, Esq., was the raiser, and the plant was named C. 

 Goweni, after him, when it first flowered in Dean Herbert's col- 

 lection at Spofforth. It was the result of crossing C. capense 



