AMAKYLLIDACEiE. 
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5 spathe-like bractes ; peduncles short, curved ; 
Howers a span long - , cernuous ; tube yellow and 
rose-coloured ; the limb yellow, margined with 
rose colour, with a spot on each segment, green 
without and white within; sepals wider, longer; 
cup tubular, much shorter than the limb, with six 
little forked reflex green teeth ; filaments shorter 
than the style, which equals the limb. In gardens 
at Lima. Precise habitation not known. 
These three species are not very easily distinguished from 
each other in bulb and foliage; they increase rapidly by 
offsets, and are very unwilling to flower with us. The first 
is larger, with broader leaves. 
4. Fulva. — Bot. Reg. 18. 1497. Bot. Mag. 60. 3221. 
Leaves sub-glaucous, thinner than the three former; 
peduncles short; tube 3^ inches, fulvous ; limb 1^, 
fulvous, tipped with green ; cup half an inch; fila- 
ments nearly equal to the limb, style longer. The 
precise habitation of this beautiful plant is not 
known, the bulbs having been purchased at Liver- 
pool by J. Wilroore, Esq. of Oldfield, near Bir- 
mingham ; by whose gardener it was obligingly 
communicated to mine, who mislaid his direction. 
It was figured in the Register before I had ascer- 
tained to whom I was indebted for it, and indeed I 
never learned till 1 read it in the B. Magazine. 
I have ascertained that all those bulbs succeed well in a 
strong rich alluvial soil, and probably they will like old rotten 
manure ; they thrive well in the open ground in summer, 
but must be taken up and kept dry, or nearly so, in winter. 
The bulbs are not delicate, but will not endure our winter, 
except near the front wall of a stove, or with some protec- 
tion to keep them dry. I consider the application of heat, 
after the full growth of the leaves, to be the most likely way 
to promote their flowering, but the first growth of the leaves 
should be made in a cool and airv situation, or they will be 
weak. 
5? Discolor. — Feuillet,Obs.2. p.29. Lilio-narcissus poly- 
anthus. cum icone. Bulb 2 inches long, rather less 
wide, chesnut coloured; scape 2 feet high, a little 
flattened and two-edged ; leaves 6 or 7, surrounding 
the scape, 9 inches long and \ an inch wide at the 
