AMAUYLLIDACEA 



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strale, pedunculated, and flaccidum, from Australia, with 

 white flowers ; Australasicum requires the stove, but some 

 of its varieties may with safety be introduced into the 

 greenhouse, as angustifolium, arenarium, and blandum. 

 Then from the Cape we have Capense, crassifolium, Her- 

 berti, variabile, Algoense, Caff rum, and riparium having red- 

 dish-white flowers. Some other species or varieties have 

 been raised by the care of cultivators, most of them having 

 white flowers, and being very beautiful ; indeed the whole 

 genus is one of the most attractive, for the stem, leaves, 

 and flowers are very stately. They require large pots, a 

 rich loam and sand, and are propagated by offsets; after 

 they have ceased flowering they should be kept dry, either 

 in the pots, or laid for a month or two in a dry airy place. 



CYRTANTHUS. 



Gen. Char. (Hexandria Monogynia.) Flower incurved, tubu- 

 lar, clavate, six-cleft, segments ovate-oblong ; filaments inserted 

 into the tube, converging at the end. 



The name means curved and a flower. There are several 

 of these elegant bulbous Cape plants which flourish in our 

 greenhouses ; as C. spiralis, cottinus, ventricosus, angustifo- 



