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sunny gardens of Rio it only acquires half the 
size. Potted in our stoves it rots in strong - loam, 
and seems to succeed best in light peat and sand. 
It cannot thrive in its native soil in a pot, without 
very good drainage and cautious watering. 
2. Intermedia.-— Bot. Reg. 12. 990. A plant of inter- 
mediate size, introduced by Mr. Harrison. I have 
never seen it, 
3. Parviflora. — Bot. Reg. 6. 511. A much smaller 
species, which I never saw but in Mr. Griffin’s 
collection. 
This Brazilian genus is allied in leaf to the South 
American Eucrosia and Urceolina, but in flower it ap- 
proaches very near to the Asiatic genus Lycoris. The 
flowers in all the species are purplish blue and white. 
61. Lycoris. — Leaves linear, hiemal; umbel many-flowered; 
germen declined ; perianth with tube declined, obso- 
letely triangular, wider at the mouth, and curved 
upwards; limb curved upwards ; filaments long, re- 
curved, inserted equally at the mouth of the tube; 
anthers oblong, incumbent ; style long, recurved, 
circumfimbriated near the summit ; stigma simple. 
1. Aurea. — Am. aurea. Bot. Mag. 409. Bot. Reg. 8. 
611. Jacq. H. Sch. 1. 38. t. 73. Flowers golden. 
I have a variety of this plant from the Chinese 
islands, which usually flowers with two supernume- 
rary segments to the flower. 
2. Radiata. — Am. radiata. Bot. Rep. 95. Bot. Reg. 7. 
596. Specim. ex Japonia. Herb. Lambert. Flowers 
crimson. 
Lycoris ought properly to stand beside Nerine; Bruns- 
vigia is more nearly allied to Nerine, and Griffinia and 
Lycoris cannot intervene in a consecutive arrangement 
without interrupting the affinities of the African plants. 
The leaves of both species are glaucous. They are natives 
of the extreme East, Aurea of China and the Chinese 
islands, radiata of Japan. Asia yields its tribute of the 
genus Crinum, which is remarkable for extending round 
the whole belt of the world, within and near the tropics ; 
but, with that exception, it produces few plants in this 
