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at Spofforth, raised from a complicated intermixture of 
Regium, vittatum, and solandriflorum. The second, only 
known by Tweedie’s specimen, has a shorter flower, but in 
other respects very similar. Flower five inches and f long, 
white, with two deep purple stripes, with a white stripe 
between, on each segment ; segments acuminate ; tube only 
one inch and long ; style nearly equal to the perianth, an 
inch longer than the stamens ; stigma trifid. 
6. Breviflorum. — PI. 21. f. 4. Bot. Mag. ined. 62. 
3549. Specim. Herb. Hooker (ex Braz. meri- 
dionali?) Tweedie. Peduncles about 2^ inches, 
tube \ of an inch long, limb two inches, white, 
striped outside with red, and stained with yellow ; 
style \ an inch longer than the stamens, | shorter 
than the limb ; stigma trifid, reflex ; lateral sepals 
about wide, lateral petals nearly equal to them. 
Sent by Tweedie to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 
where it has flowered. 
7. Vittatum. — Am. Vittata. Bot. Mag. 4. 129. Flowers 
4 to 9, white doubly striped with dull red. 
Var. 2. Latifolium. — v. major. Lindl. Coll. Bot. 12. 
Larger, with broader and more glossy leaves ; 
perianth five and a half inches long, broad dull red 
stripe with green star; style five inches long, fila- 
ments a little shorter. 
Var. 3. Harrisonianum. — Bot. Reg. 12. 988. Tube 
greenish, limb obtuse, doubly striped with red 
within ; said to grow near Lima. 
8. Reticulatum. — Am. reticulata. Bot. Mag. 18. 657. 
Flower purplish red, beautifully reticulated with a 
deeper colour ; star white. Style nearly as long as 
the limb ; pollen very pale ; stigma triangular, 
obtuse ; leaves very deep green, attenuated below : 
inside of the ripe capsule red ; seeds fewer and less 
compressed than usual in the genus. 
Var. 2. Striatifolium. — Amaryllis. Bot. Mag. 47. 2113. 
Bot. Reg. 5. 352. Flower larger, paler; leaf with 
a strong broad longitudinal white line ; capsule 
and seeds as in the prototype. Some imported 
individuals have the flower small and darker as in 
