AMARYLLIDACEX. 
201 
tube oblique, abbreviated underneath ; limb com- 
pressed, recurved ; segments alternately alike ; cup 
declined, abbreviated and rostrate above, shovel-formed 
and prolonged below ; filaments long, recurved ; an- 
thers attached at one-third from the top, pendulous ; 
style at first sloped down, afterwards recurved ; stigma 
obtuse, dilated, downy. Fruit not seen, but capsule 
evidently ovate, 3-furrowed. 
1. Bicolor. — Bot. Reg. 207. Bot. Mag. 51. 2490. I 
have given an ample and careful account of this 
plant in the Bot. Mag. to which the reader is re- 
ferred. The figure in the Reg. is far from correct ; 
and on comparison of the figure in the Mag. with 
the drawing from which it was made, it appears that 
the colourer has not made it near bright enough ; 
the colour is nearer that of vermilion, the stripe in 
the buds dark green unmixed with yellow, the cup 
pale vermilion. The yellow colour of the flowers 
in the Magazine is quite incorrect. I know not on 
what authority Mr. Sweet stated it to be a native of 
Cape Horn ; had it come from so cold a situation, 
Mr. Lee would scarcely have lost all his bulbs by 
leaving them in a cold frame in winter. I only 
know that it came from South America. 1 have 
usually kept it in the stove, or a very dry part of 
the greenhouse without water in the winter ; in 
summer it is thirsty and requires shade, having 
much the same habit as Urceolina. It thrives in a 
pretty strong alluvial soil. 
52. Elisena. — Bulb roundish ; leaves linear, lorate, erect ; 
scape few-flowered ; germen oblong ; tube short, cylin- 
drical ; limb reflex ; segments linear, (4 recurved, 2 
declined ?) cup declined, cylindrical, with a repand 
recurved margin ; filaments and style filiform, declined, 
recurved ; alternate filaments equal ; anthers incum- 
bent. Fruit unknown. Scape presumed to be solid. 
1. Ringens. — Pancratium ringens. Flor. Peruv. 283. 
Liriope ringens. Herb. App. scape 5-flowered ; 
peduncles very short ; tube short, green ; tube 
greenish, f of an inch long ; filaments about equal 
to the limb, style longer. In gardens in Peru, 
Precise habitation not known. 
