AMARYLLIDACEiE. 
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long, 1^ inch wide, attenuated at both ends ; scape 
a foot; spathe obtuse, 1^ inch; flowers 6-7 ; tube 
more than twice as long as the limb ; filaments ^rd 
shorter than the limb, rather declined, recurved. 
Perhaps allied to the following Australian group. 
27. Australasicum. — Bulbo spheerico, foliis crassis rigi- 
dulis, filamentis basi gibbosa, germine sessili, sub- 
sessili, vel breviter pedunculate). 
Var. 1. Arenarium. — Bot. Mag. 49. 2355. Leaves with 
the margin slightly scabrous, peduncle long, 
tube near 4 inches, pale green, limb white 2|; fila- 
ments and style purple upwards ; style longest, 
shorter than the limb. Cells with six ovules. 
Var. 2. Blandum. — Arenarium ft. Bot. Mag. 49. 2535. 
Leaves larger, peduncles longer, limb broader, blush- 
coloured without, filaments white, style red up- 
wards, much longer, stigma much smaller than in 
arenarium. 
These were found growing in Water Island, lat. 14° 3' 
south long. 150° east of Greenwich, 10 inches below the sur- 
face of a barren sandy soil ; thermometer in the shade, sea- 
breeze blowing, 94° Fahr. ; heat of the sand 130° near the 
surface. 
Var. 3. Confertum. — Bot. Mag. 51. 2522. Leaf nar- 
rower than the former, with a smooth margin, 
flowers sessile, cells with 5-8 ovules, tube erect, 
3 inches long, shorter, red, white at the base. Sent 
to England under the name Angustifolium. 
Var. 4. Angustifolium. — Brown Prodromus. 1. 297. 
Foliis margine scabro. I am not aware from Dr. 
Brown's short description that it differs from con- 
fertum in anything but a scabrous margin to the 
leaf, but on comparison of the leaf of confertum 
with Dr. Brown’s specimen that difference was 
very apparent. I have seen no bulb of the true 
angustifolium. 
28. Venosum. — Brown Prodromus. 1. 297. Germen 
subsessile, tube twice as long as the limb, segments 
strongly veined elliptic-lanceolate, filaments half 
the length of the limb, anthers equal to the fila- 
ments ; leaves unknown. This plant being insuf- 
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