Refugium Botantewm.| — [ July, 1872. 
TAB. 329. 
Natural Order AMARYLLIDACE. 
Tribe AMARYLLEZ. 
Genus Nerine, Herbert. 
N. putcuena (Herbert, App. 19), var. ancustivotta (Baker). Bulbo 
ovoideo, foliis 83—4 glauco-viridibus carnoso-herbaceis anguste 
ligulatis pedalibus 83—4 lin. latis, scapo 13—2-pedah, spathe 
valvis 2 magnis lanceolatis multis filiformibus, umbellis 10— 
12-floris, pedicellis 13—2-uncialibus, perianthii segmentis un- 
cialibus equalibus oblanceolatis 2—2} lin. latis leviter undu- 
lato-crispatis, genitalibus perianthio brevioribus. 
A native of Cape Colony, gathered by Mr. Cooper. 
Bulb ovoid, two inches thick. Leaves three to four, cotem- 
porary with the flowers, glaucous-green, narrow-ligulate, reaching 
a foot long, three to four lines broad, fleshy in texture, with 
immersed veins. Scape a foot and a half to two feet high, firm, 
erect, terete. Spathe with two opposite coloured membranous 
lanceolate reflexed valves an inch long, and, inside these, many 
which are small and thread-like. Ovary green, globose, deeply 
trisuleate. Limb of the perianth an inch long, rose-pink; the 
segments equal, oblanceolate, slightly crisped, two to two and a 
half lines broad two-thirds of the way up, rotato-reflexed when 
expanded. Genitalia a little shorter than the segments ; the 
style and filaments close in the lower, reflexed and divergent in 
the upper half. 
This form has exactly the flowers of Herbert’s Nerine pulchella, 
as figured Bot. Mag. t. 2407, but approaches the better-known 
N. undulata (Bot. Mag. t. 869) by its narrower leaves. 
Tas. 829.—1, ovary, with style, stigma and base of filaments ; 
2, horizontal section of ovary: both magnified.—J. G@. DB. 
An interesting species of Nerine, which I owe to the exertions 
of Mr. Thos. Cooper while my collector in South Africa. It 
requires the same treatment as other species of the genus, and, 
when well taken care of, flowers freely —WV. W. S. 
