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natural order. Lycoris flowers in the autumn, after a period 
of rest ; radiata but rarely in our stoves. It is hardier than 
aurea, and will live in a green-house. Radiata cultivated 
at Calcutta, flowers after the hot season, but sometimes fails 
to yield any blossom for two or three seasons. Aurea likes 
a light sandy soil. 
62. Olivia. — Spathe many-valved ; germen pendulous ; pe- 
rianth curved on the upper surface, straighter beneath; 
tube cylindrical, widened; limb with fourfold diver- 
sity ; filaments straight, alternately equal, equally 
decurrent in the tube ; style straight ; fruit valve- 
less, with a coloured outer coat, and fleshy middle 
coat, seeds round-oblong, angular by contact, vege- 
tating often in the fruit. 
1. Nobilis. — Bot. Reg. 14. 1182. Imatophyllum Ay- 
toni. Bot. Mag. 55. 2856. Cells 3-seeded; seeds 
pearl-coloured ; flowers numerous, scarlet, tipped 
with yellow and green ; leaves with a harsh 
margin. 
This beautiful plant was first discovered by Dr. Burchell, 
in whose herbarium, soon after his return from Africa, I saw 
a fine specimen, which not having been carefully examined, 
had been mistaken for an Agapanthus, to which its root and 
leaves have a striking affinity. I soon after became pos- 
sessed of a plant of this species, brought over by an officer 
who had been employed on the Caffre frontier, and I recog- 
nized it to be the plant I had seen in Dr. Burchell’s herba- 
rium, but concluded it to be an Agapanthus. Not long 
after, I obtained for Mr. Tate, from the kindness of Dr. 
Burchell, a precise account of the spot where he had seen 
this plant; the result of which was a large importation of the 
roots ; but after they had vegetated, Mr. Tate mistook them 
for the common Agapanthus, and was about to dispose of 
them as such, when I saw them accidentally, and imme- 
diately recognized them. One of the plants flowered for the 
first time in this country in the collection of the Duchess of 
Northumberland, after whom it was named. By a singular 
accident it appeared on the same day in the Bot. Reg. and 
Mag., being named in the latter work Imatophyllum Aytoni, 
but the name Clivia nobilis has been generally preferred. 
Sir W. Hooker was mistaken in supposing Mr. Bowie to 
