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AM ARYLLIDACEiE. 
inch long, 2-flowered, bracteate; flowers 1^ or near 
If of an inch long, slender, golden. 
Var. 2. Foliolosa. — Specim. Buenos Ayres; ex hort. 
Tweedie. Herb. Hooker, with a more leafy stalk. 
26. Aurea. — Bot. Mag. 61. 3350. Aurantiaca. Sweet. 
Br. fl. g. Stalk 2-4 feet high, leaves glabrous, 
resupinate, 4| inches long or less, f wide (persistent 
after the ripening of the seed till the approach of 
winter;) peduncles about five, 2-3-flowered, about 
four inches long, with leaf-like bractes ; perianth 
orange, two upper sepals lanceolate, streaked with 
red ; capsule oblong with a blunt point ; seed 
round pale chesnut colour. Native of the island of 
Cliiloe, and raised by seed imported from thence by 
Mr. Lowe, Nurseryman, at Clapton. Specimens 
gathered by Cumming (No. 562), on the banks of 
the river of Valdivia are less robust, but decidedly 
identical. This beautiful plant is very hardy, and 
thrives under a south wall, where it forms a great 
tuft, and flowers and ripens seed abundantly. PI. 
1. f. 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 1 1, 12, 13, and 14. 
Var. 2. Valparadisiaca. — Specim. Cumming, 293. Val- 
paraiso. Herb. Hooker. Herb. Lindl. Leaves an 
inch wide, peduncles nine, 3-flowered; perianth 
larger and more brilliantly coloured. This plant 
has been raised from seed from Valparaiso by Mrs. 
Bridgman of C. Weston near Thetford, but has not 
yet flowered. By the dry specimens it appears to 
Ije the most splendid plant of the genus. 
A young plant of Aurea, planted out in front of a green- 
house two years ago, has now about 50 flower-stems which 
are four feet high, more or less, each with from three to eight 
diverging peduncles, two or three-flowered, usually three- 
flowered, but in no instance more ; the peduncles are from 
4 to 4g inches high, forked at 2 or 2| inches from their base. 
This splendid species ripens its seed abundantly, and increases 
so fast by the root, and is so hardy, that I believe it will soon 
become the ornament of our cottage gardens. By planting 
it in a shady and cool situation a later succession of bloom 
will be obtained. Its principal enemies are slugs, which 
must be destroyed when the shoots first appear, and the 
caterpillars of the lambda moth in July and August, which 
