Plate 307. 
TJBCEOLINA PENDULA. 
Few collectors have been more fortunate than Mr. Pearce, 
the able and indefatigable employe of Messrs. Veitch and Son, 
of the King’s Hoad, Chelsea; our pages have often been enriched 
by drawings of the effective and useful plants that he has sent 
home, for the more temperate portion of South America having 
been the main scene of his exertions, his introductions are 
much more likely to be generally grown than those of col¬ 
lectors in tropical regions, and the plant we now figure will, 
we think, be as useful, and is certainly as ornamental, as many 
of those we have already noticed. 
JJrceolina pendula was described by Dean Herbert many 
years ago; it was also described two years ago in the 4 Garden¬ 
ers’ Chronicle,’ under the synonym of Jdrceolina aurea , and was 
figured in the 4 Botanical Magazine’ for 1864, p. 5464, as TJr- 
ceolina pendula. which name we retain; a specific name per¬ 
taining more to the character of the flower, rather than its 
colour, being preferable. We understand that it was collected 
by Mr. Pearce in the woods of the Andes, in Peru, and as an 
example of Amaryllids is remarkable for both the colour and 
shape of its flower, the latter bearing a close 44 resemblance 
to an inverted pitcherthe tube is largely inflated, and of 
a bright golden-yellow ; ,4 the limb quite green, with a white 
edge 44 the flower scape is about fifteen inches long, bearing 
at its summit a large umbel of drooping flowers,” as shown 
in our plate. The leaves are two in number, and in some in¬ 
stances nearly a foot in length. 
The culture of JJrceolina pendida will no doubt be very easy, 
as from its locality it will doubtless need the temperature of a 
cool greenhouse. 
