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LXI. On a Hybrid Amaryllis, produced between Amaryllis 

 vittata and Amaryllis Regina-vittata. In a Letter to the 

 Secretary. By James Robert Gowen, Esq. F. H. S. 



Read May 21st, 1823. 



Dear Sir, 



I n my Paper on the Hybrid Amaryllis Regina-vittata, pub- 

 lished in the Transactions of the Horticultural Society* in 

 which the identity of the above-mentioned hybrid with the 

 Amaryllis Johnsoni of the gardens is (I apprehend) esta- 

 blished, beyond controversy ; I observed that it was a fertile 

 hybrid, being a free seeder, either by self-impregnation, or by 

 the insertion of the pollen of other species, and that I had 

 raised a dozen seedlings from Amaryllis vittata, impregnated 

 by it, which would be three-fourths of A. vittata, and one- 

 fourth of A. Reginae. These seedlings were raised late in 1819, 

 and several of them have flowered here this spring. I waited 

 for their flowering with much curiosity, and have been grati- 

 fied with the result of my experiment, which has terminated 

 in the production of some very splendid flowers. One of the 

 bulbs having been sent to you, for your own inspection, and 

 that of such Members of the Society as were within reach, 

 you have been able to satisfy yourself by ocular inspection, 

 of the beauty of this new production, which to persons unac- 

 quainted with its origin, would have appeared to be merely 

 a variety, though a splendid one, of Amaryllis vittata, as it 



* See Volume iv. page 498. 



