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purascens from a West African island, no occidental or West 
African Crinum has been found with more than 8 flowers, 
and we may probably assign 12 as the maximum. The many- 
flowered species belong to East Africa, Asia, and Australia. 
Sjovanni pola tali (Rheede H. Mai. p. 77.) agrees with no 
known species. I suspect that it is a most inaccurate repre- 
sentation of Amcenum, but the figure is more like the African 
spectabile. 
The pedunculated species in this genus are for the most 
part disposed only to incline the bud, the sessile and sub- 
sessile to nod. 
67. Amaryllis. — Leaves liiemal, arcuate ; scape autumnal, 
before the leaves ; umbel many-flowered, pedun- 
culated, divaricate ; germen triangularly obovate ; 
tube narrow funnel-shaped ; petaline filaments ad- 
hering to the petals, sepaline to the mouth of the 
tube ; anthers incumbent, attached in the middle ; 
capsule obovate, disposed to burst prematurely. 
1. Belladonna. — Bot. Mag. 9. 733. The type of the 
Linnaean genus Amaryllis. Hort. Cliff'. See article 
Hippeastrum. 
Var. 2. Pallida. — Red. Lil. 479. Bot. Reg. 9. 714. 
Var. 3. Latifolia. — Foliis latioribus. Leaves very broad. 
These bulbs are natives of the Cape of Good Hope, and 
are naturalized in Madeira, having been probably dissemi- 
nated from gardens. They are exceedingly hardy, but two 
things are necessary to their flowering, a strong growth of the 
leaves, and absolute rest from Midsummer till their period of 
flowering in September. If the leaves sprout early, and are 
so much damaged by severe frosts that a vigorous growth 
does not ensue in spring, or if they are prevented by drought 
in the spring from developing themselves, or are preserved 
green by a wet summer after the period of rest, or if they 
have not moisture in September to promote the blossoming, 
it will fail, and in the latter case the abortive flower-buds will 
be thrown out of the ground when the leaves sprout after- 
wards. I have tried cutting the leaves oft’ in a wet summer, 
but that did not give the rest from moisture and the heat 
during the period of rest, which is requisite to the formation 
of the flowers, nor did it allow the return of sap to the bulb 
at the moment of desiccation It is quite clear thatMr. Knight 
was in error in imagining; that the flower of such bulbs is 
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