AM ARY LLIDACEjE. 
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amongst the seedlings, excepting that some have the leaves 
a little more glaucous than others, and some have the 
scape green and others a little purpurascent. The bulbs 
are of a greenish purple, the leaves rather glaucous, f of an 
inch wide ; the scape a foot and a half high, 3-16ths of an 
inch wide; peduncles about an inch long, flowers about 16; 
the laciniae of the corolla £ of an inch wide, lj long, very 
undulate, half expanded, with the tips bent back, rose coloured, 
changing after a few days to blueish purple, except the mid- 
dle rib or stripe, which continues red. The cells, which in 
Undulata are 2-seeded, and in Curvifolia about 8-seeded, in 
the mule are generally 6-seeded, but the ovules are discoloured 
and probably imperfect. In Undulata the germen is always 
bent downwards by the premature growth of the seeds in 
the upper cell, by which the corolla and filaments become dis- 
torted; in the mule the germen continues straight as in Curvi- 
folia. In Undulata the filaments are very liable to irregularity 
and generally curved downwards, those of the mule approach 
nearer in straightness and regularity to those of Curvifolia : 
the style becomes at last bent upwards, but not so much bent, 
nor is it at first so short, as in Undulata, of which the style is 
by degrees considerably prolonged. In some flowers of the 
mule the style is entirely wanting. The style, or one or 
more of the filaments of the Amaryllideae, are occasionally 
abbreviated or prolonged by accident. In Nerine Undulata 
they are particularly irregular, in consequence of the distor- 
tion of the flower, but in its most perfect state the corre- 
spondence of the alternate filaments is evident. Seedlings 
of Undulata flower when about three years old; the strongest 
of the mules blew at four years : but seedlings of Curvifolia 
seem not to flower till they are eight or nine years old. The 
figure represents a full-sized seed of each of the parents, 
the largest being that of Curvifolia. 
70. Strum aria. — Umbel many-flowered, pedunculated ; 
spathe 2 valved ; perianth regular ; tube, none except 
an annular connexion; filaments connected at the base, 
the alternate filaments, generally, more or less adnate 
to the style in proportion to its thickness ; anthers in- 
cumbent; style strumous (that is, enlarged below), an- 
gular, furrowed, stigma trifid ; seeds roundish, few. 
1. Augustifolia. — PI. 29. f. 14. Jacq. Coll. Supp. 48. ic. 
rar. 2. c. 259, Leaves ^ wide, subacute ; perianth 
