Plates 475 , 476 . 
HIPPEASTRUM LEOPOLD! 
It will not have been forgotten that some two or three years 
ago, a new Hippeastrum was exhibited by the Messrs. Yeitch, of 
Chelsea, which excited a good deal of admiration — we mean 
Hippeastrum pardinum, which we figured in our sixth volume, 
plate 344. It was one of the introductions of the late Mr. Pearce, 
collector of Messrs. Veitch & Son, of Chelsea, whose premature 
death, as he was on the way to South America, in the employ- 
ment of Mr. W. Bull, was so much lamented by the horticultural 
world. We have now the pleasure of figuring another of his 
introductions, excelling the former one in size and equally re- 
markable for its colouring. 
Hippeastrum Leopoldi was obtained from the same habitat, 
Peru, by Mr. B. Pearce, and he always considered it a most 
valuable species. It did not flower until the present year, when 
it fully confirmed all that he had said of it ; and when, on 
the occasion of the visit of his Majesty the King of the 
Belgians to London last autumn, an exhibition was rapidly got 
together at the Eoyal Horticultural Society’s Gardens in his 
honour, the Messrs. Yeitch exhibited it, and requested that 
it might be named Leopoldi, a permission which was at once 
courteously granted. 
It were needless work, so accurate is the drawing which our 
artist has made, to give any lengthened description of this striking 
flower ; the ground colour it will be seen is a creamy white, the 
colour of the large blotches in each petal are purplish rose, being 
