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AMARYLLIDACEAS. 
Var. 2. Peduncles 2-3-flowered. There is much sport- 
ing in the different specimens, not worth particu- 
larizing. 
Var. 3. Albescens. — PI. 3. fig. 4. Cmnming 568. Val- 
paraiso. Herb. Hooker. Peduncles 1 -flowered ; 
the shoulders of the sepals white, the middle green; 
the petals marked with purple: stalk robust, 15-16 
inches. 
Var. 4. Squammata. — A. M. 317. Valparaiso, Sept. 
Steep cliffs near the sea. Herb. Hooker. Sharp 
scales instead of leaves. 
Var. 5. Flore albo ; hortensis. A beautiful white and 
green variety raised from seed in England : white 
and red seedlings are both raised from its seed : 
the white variety is tenderer than the red. 
13. Ligtu. — Feuillet. Obs. 710. Described and figured 
by Feuillet, who brought the first plant of this genus 
before the public, and stated by him to grow near 
Conception in Chili. The name was by a great and 
unaccountable error in the Bot. Mag. applied to a 
tropical plant, in no manner resembling it, which 
has been generally cultivated under a wrong name, 
being properly A. Caryophyllsea of Jacquin. Feuil- 
let’s plant has the leaves 2-3 inches long, 5-16ths 
wide, nearly sessile, peduncles bracteate 3-flowered, 
flowers large, of a fine purplish red, streaked lon- 
gitudinally on the two upper petals with white ; 
sepals not auriculate or shouldered like those of 
peregrina. Jacquin says that he had once in cul- 
tivation a plant which nearly answered the descrip- 
tion. It appears by the specimens under Ruiz’s 
name lineatiflora, to admit variations of the same 
nature and extent as those which occur in pere- 
grina ; leaves broad and narrow ; peduncles one or 
more flowered ; but it is readily distinguished from 
that plant by the different form of the sepals. 
Var. 2. lineatiflora. — Flor. Peruv. 3. 60. 289. Peduncles 
2-3-flowered ; leaves ovate acute, 1 inch and J 
wide ; the purple of the flowers deep. Ruiz’s spe- 
cimen, Herb. Lambert, has very broad acute leaves 
and bractes, and the sepals not auriculate. I find 
a one-flowered variety in Dr. Lindley’s Herba- 
rium, with leaves little broader than those of pere- 
