PLATE CLXXIX. 



AMARYLLIS RETICULATA. 



Netted-fiowered Lily- Daffodil. 



CLASS VL ORDER L 

 HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal. 



ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Corolla 6-petala, campanulata. Stigma tri- 

 fidum. 



Blossom 6-petalled, bell-ihaped. Summit three- 

 cleft. 



SeeAMARTLLIS RADIATA, PI. XCV. Vol.II. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Amaryllis fpatha multiflora ; corollis reticulatis, 

 purpnreis; foliis oblongis, reticulatis, bafi 

 attenuatis. 



Lily Daffodil, flieath many flowered; bloflbms 

 netted and purple; leaves oblong, netted, 

 and tapered at the bale. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Petal and its Chive, attached, as it is in the flower. 



2. The Seed -bud, Shaft, and Summit. 



The Amaryllis reticulata, a native of Brazil, South America, was firtl cultivated in the year 1/72, at 

 the Hammerfmith nurlery ; the bulbs had been received from Portugal by Edward Whittaker Gray, M. D. 

 of the Briiiih Muleum ; and were by him communicated to Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy. Our drawing 

 vas made this fpring, in May, from a plant in the invaluable, and extenfive colleftion of hothoufe 

 plants, at Stepney, belonging to T. Evans, Efq. where it flowers annually. 



To enfure ihe flowering of this plant, it is necelTliry to plunge the pot in the heat of the bark-bed 

 of the hothoufe; and, during the winter months, to keep the earth rather dry, as the bulbs are very 

 fubje6l to rot, without that precaution. It fhould be planted in a compofition of old rotten dung, or 

 leaf mould, and a fmall proportion of loam. 



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