May 5, 1897.] 



Garden and Forest. 



175 



Fig. 20. — Sambucus leiosperma. — See page 174, 



Flowering branch, natural size. 2. Fruiting branch, natural size. 3. Vertical section of flower, enlarged. 4. Fruit divided transversely, enlarged, 



5. A nutlet, enlarged. 





entirely abandoned in this respect. The H. ambiguum, which 

 was sent from Lima, Peru, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and 

 described subsequently by Dean Herbert as a new species, 

 has been ascertained to be a cross between this species and 

 H. vittatum. 



Hippeastrum reticulatum, the autumn-flowering Amaryllis, 

 I have been unable to obtain. It is said to be indigenous on 

 the shores of Botafoga Bay, near Sao Domingos, Brazil. Its 



variety Striatifolium is much more abundant and more beau- 

 tiful than the type. Large specimen plants, consisting of many 

 bulbs, are not rare in collections. The bulbs are small, short- 

 necked, and the leaves, which are of a deep green color, are 

 banded in the centre with a conspicuous creamy white stripe. 

 Although I have had fair success with almost all my Amaryl- 

 lis, this one I cannot induce to grow or flower, no matter 

 how I treat it. In Missouri, where my plants were kept in a 



