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AMARYLLIDACE^. 
filamentis (vix recte?) conniventibus. Leaves 
linear ; spatlie 1 or 2-leaved, according as it has 
one or two flowers, pedunculated. h’Herit. Leaves 
vernal, scarcely to be gathered at the same time as 
the scape ; flowers very pale sulphur or vermilion, 
the colour being very variable ; stigma deeply 
trifid. Poeppig. L’Heritier’s description is quite 
insufficient for the identification of his plant, and 
his quotations are erroneous. It is strange that he 
should have called his flower purple, and yet quoted 
Feuillet’s orange Pyrolirion as the same. Ruiz’s 
Chilensis is a bearded Hippeastrum, with leaves 
attenuated at both ends, a variety of Miniatum or 
Regium. Dr. Poeppig has brought home speci- 
mens, and if his plant be not Habranthus pallidus, 
it must keep the name Chilensis. I believe the 
Am. lutea of Ruiz and Pavon's herbarium to be 
L’Heritier’s plant. I have a small bulb, sent from 
Chili under the name Chilensis, with two leaves 
scarcely a line wide, acute, shining green, which 
is probably this plant. According to Poeppig the 
flower of Chilensis is autumnal, rising before the 
leaves, which in my plant are hiemal ; he calls 
them vernal, that is they endure till the hot season. 
Chilensis was found by him in sandy fields near 
La Vega de Conception in S. Chili. Molina, p. 129, 
calls it coccinea, flowers bright red, seldom two ; 
anthers yellow, genitals red, spathe two-leaved ; 
scarce exceeding a foot ; leaves linear, about equal 
to it. I suspect that Mr. Ker’s Amaryllis Ochro- 
leuca, taken from a drawing by Bauer in the 
Banksian Library, must be one of the varieties of 
this plant. The drawing represents the flowers 
with obtuse deeply divided segments, of a deep 
greenish yellow with reddish veins, erect, very 
little expanded, conniving filaments, and anthers 
short, incumbent, and attached by the middle. 
Mr. Ker’s engraving ( Journ. Sc. and Arts ) is very 
accurate. It is decidedly not a Zephyranthes, 
from the structure and attachment of the anthers, 
nor has any two-flowered Zephyranthes been seen. 
I think the drawing must have been made before 
the full expansion of the flower, and before either 
