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I have stated the cup of H. Tazetta to be yellow or orange, 
meaning to include pale lemon under that definition, and to 
exclude white, of which I know no instance. The var. 8. is 
perhaps the Grand monarque. If I had certain information 
concerning each of the Narcissean varieties, whether it is a 
garden production or a wild local variety, 1 should give or 
retain a subordinate Latin name to each of the latter descrip- 
tion, and consign those of the former to the catalogue of 
florist’s names. 
Hippeastrum Acuminatum, y- foliis variegatis, R. et 
Schultes v. 7. 2. p. 1 720 is doubtless a cross-bred plant, having 
one quarter of the type of reticulatum by descent. I have 
raised similar plants, but do not believe any striped acumi- 
natum has been found wild, or raised in cultivation without 
such intermixture. 
Hippeastrum Barbatum. — This plant was called Ama- 
ryllis dubia by Linnaeus (Amcen.), not intending dubia to be 
its specific name, but because he was in doubt about the 
plant. It is a remarkable instance of the very vague ideas 
then entertained of generic characteristics, that, after having 
referred the plant to Merian’s Hippeastrum equestre, from 
which it is principally distinguished by its white instead of 
orange limb, he should at last have called it in his herbarium 
a Crinum, for no other reason than its agreeing with those 
he knew in colour. The plant has been noticed by no other 
writer, and has never been brought to Europe. 
Hippeastrum Griffini. Amaryllis psittacina hybrida 
(Bot. Mag. 61. 3528) is the same plant. 
Hippeastrum Miniatum. — PI. 47. f. 7. Spec. herb. 
Hooker. Matthews, Quebrada of Panahuanca. Peru. Folia 
22-unc. acuta, superne unc. lata, inferne valde attenuata, 
scapus biflorus7-10 unc. spatlia If, ped. lj-lf, per. 3|-4 unc. 
cernuum, stylus limbum sequans, staminibus longior, 
stigma obtusum triquetrum. I cannot doubt these Peruvian 
specimens of a deep red Hippeastrum being the Am. miniata 
of Ruiz. He says filaments, as well as style, equal to the 
perianth, which is very improbable. The lateral petals are 
about 1|- wide, the lowest narrow. 
Hymenocallis adnata, v. princeps. — Jacquin’s plant, 
said (as I suspect erroneously) to have come from Tierra 
Bomba has the tube eight inches long, the cup eroded, one- 
third the length of the limb, filaments not exceeding the 
limb; leaves 3-4 feet long, an inch and half wide. The 
seedlings of this plant, which I mentioned p. 216 as thriving 
