1871.] 
AMARYLLIS (HIPPEASTRUM) LEOPOLDII. 
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in honour of the King of the Belgians, on the occasion of his visiting the Royal 
Horticultural Gardens in 1869. It is a remarkably robust and vigorous-growing 
plant, with very large flowers, having broad expanded perianth segments, which 
mark it out as distinct from the ordinary garden forms of Hippeastrum, and as 
Amaryllis Leopoldii. 
one of the noblest of its race. It was indeed regarded by Pearce as the finest 
of all the Amaryllids he had met with in'his journeyings. 
The leaves are stout and broadly strap-shaped ; and the scape is stout, sup¬ 
porting about two flowers, which measure fully 7 in. in expansion, and consist of 
