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AMARYLLIDACEi'E. 
time of flowering will depend upon the time of 
ceasing and recommencing to water it. The bar- 
ren stalks follow the flower stems. It varies in 
our stoves with brighter coloured flowers, and is 
probably capable of much improvement from seed. 
Var. 2. Catharinensis. — PI. 2. fig. 6. Mrs. Graham, Rio ; 
and also Tweedie, St. Catharine’s, Brazil, Herb. 
Hooker. Involucral bractes very slender ; petals 
spotted upwards. 
6. Macraeana. — Spec. Valparaiso. Macrae. Feb. 1825, 
Herb. Lindl. Leaves crowded at the base, sub- 
erect, lance-oval, 3 inches long, besides the petiole 
lj, smaller upwards on the stalk; involucral 
bractes three, narrow, 1^ inch long; peduncles 
erect, above an inch long ; flowers suberect, lowest 
petal abbreviated, upper longest and narrow ; la- 
teral sepals broadest. This Chilian plant has very 
much the foliage of Caryophyllaea, but bears its 
flowers on the leafly stalk ; it has a like abbrevia- 
tion of the lower petal, but appears to differ much 
in the form of the segments. It will prove a green- 
house or hardy plant, whenever it may be intro- 
duced. 
7. Inodora. — PI. 2. fig. 1. Tweedie Herb. Hooker. In 
crevices of rocks near Solta, S. Brazil. Stalk 
slender, leaves about half an inch apart, oval, 1^ 
inch long besides the petiole f ; involucral bractes 
leaf-like with short petioles; peduncle |- , upper 
petals narrow, spatulate, with an acute point, 
spotted, 1|- long, lowest about f ; sepals more 
obtuse. (Colour seemingly red, yellow, and 
green ?) Mr. Tweedie writes, that on its first 
shooting, this plant has much the appearance of 
Caryophyllaea, but as it advances, becomes very 
different ; that its tubers are less palmate, and its 
flowers scentless. 
8. Longistaminea. — Martins ap. Schultes. Stalk 
smooth, 20 inches high, scaled below ; leaves 
lance-linear, acute, resupinate ; involucral bractes 
obsolete ; peduncles 5 ; sepals oblique ovate, petals 
less oblong, lanceolate, with a slender point, the 
lowest least (colour roseate ? not spotted). 
