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AMARYLLIDACEjE. 
Bieberstein, referable to Merendera Caucasica. Sterne- 
bergia Colchiciflora has been introduced into this country 
lately from Hungary by the Hon. W. Fox Strangways, with 
whom it has flowered. 
41. Oporanthus. — Bulb roundish; leaves hiemal ; scape 
autumnal, one- flowered ; spathe tubular, divided at 
the point ; germen erect ; tube short, erect, tending 
to funnel-shaped ; limb regular ; filaments inserted in 
the tube below the limb, decurrent, conniving ; an- 
thers versatile ; stigma trifid ; ovules roundish, irre- 
gularly angular by compression. Seeds nowhere 
described. 
1. Luteus. — Am. lutea. Bot. Mag. 5. 200. Redoute lil. 
148. Narcissus autumnalis major. Clus. 2. 164. 
Mountain pastures in Spain, Italy, and Greece. 
Var. flore pleno. Hill’s Eden. 
It is very strange that no writer has described the seed 
of this plant, which is much cultivated, nor have I ever seen 
it. Hill speaks of sowing the seed in beds, as if he had 
readily obtained it, and asserts that the seedlings vary much 
in the shade of yellow, and he gives a figure of a double 
variety which is probably lost. That the seed is roundish 
and black I entertain no doubt. The only variation I have 
seen is a narrower and a broader leaf. This plant is hardy, 
but the bulbs often rot with me in the open ground if the 
summer is wet. Probably they should be taken up and dried 
when the leaf decays. 
2. Exiguus. — Amaryllis. Schousboc Morocco, 1. 160. 
Scape an inch high; leaves 1-3, short; tube short, 
limb campanulate, yellow ; segments equal, obtuse, 
with a deeper yellow midrib ; filaments nearly as 
long as the limb; style filiform. Tangiers. 
42. Lapiedra. — Perianth regular, expanded, star-shaped ; 
filaments straight, erect; anthers arrow-headed (in- 
cumbent?); seeds small, angular. PI. 42. f. 10. 11. 
1. Placiana. — Sparganium Pla^ae. Clus. PI. rar. 164. 
Lapiedra Martinezii. Lagasca Nov. sp. et gen. 
p. 14. Crinum Martinezii, ib. Barrelius, ic. 993. 
A.D. 1714. Flowers about eight, white; style and 
stigma white, spathe 2-3 leaved; leaves (two only?) 
longitudinally striped with white, linear, obtuse. 
