Refugium Botanicum.| [dugust, 1868. 
TAB. 46. 
Natural Order AMARYLLIDACE2. 
Genus Puapranassa, Herb. 
P. CarMtout, n. sp. Foliis lanceolatis erectis scapo subeequantibus sur- 
sum angustalis deorsum ad petiolum longe attenuatis, umbellis 
6—8 floris, pedunculis perianthio subduplo brevioribus, floribus 
bipollicaribus, germine oblongo viridi apice constricto, tubo sub- 
cylindraceo rubro, segmentis lanceolato-deltoideis viridibus margine 
pallidioribus tubo subquadruplo brevioribus. 
A native of Costa Rica, discovered and sent by M. Carmiol. 
Bulb two to three inches in thickness, roundish, tunicated, 
narrowed suddenly at the neck, with membranous brown outer 
coats. Scape above two feet high, quite straight, terete, pale 
glaucous-green with a deciduous bloom. Leaf erect, including 
the petiole about as long as the scape, lanceolate, rather over 
three inches broad, narrowed gradually to an acute point and 
below very gradually into a petiole three or four inches long 
which is nearly or quite as thick as the stem, the texture firm but 
not very thick, the upper surface a very bright grass-green, the 
lower covered with a dense glaucous bloom like that of the stem, 
the midrib channelled on the upper surface and very prominent 
below, the veins clearly visible, about twenty on each side of the 
midrib. Flowers six to eight in a cernuous wmbel, contem- 
poraneous with the leaves; the spathe in four or six linear divi- 
sions about equalling the pedicels, which are ultimately an inch 
long. Perianth rather over two inches long, the germen a quarter 
of an inch long, oblong, green, constricted at the apex, the tube 
fifteen to eighteen inches long, cylindrical, slightly dilated up- 
wards, bright red, the divisions lanceolate-deltoid, about four 
lines deep, scarcely spreading, green with a paler edge. Stamens 
subequal, exserted to a length of three or four lines, inserted in 
the tube about the same distance above the ovary. Style rather 
shorter than the stamens. Ovary bluntly trigonous, the ovules 
in two long rows in each of the cells.—J. G. B. 
This interesting bulb I received last year from Mons. Jules 
Carmiol, of Costa Rica. It makes one or two large handsome 
leaves, during the season of growth, which are covered with dense 
white bloom on the under side. It seems to flower freely, and 
should be grown in a damp stove.—W. W.S. 
