
Refugium Botanicum. | [July, 1872. 
TAB. 332. 
Natural Order AMARYLLIDACEZ. 
Tribe AMARYLLE. 
Genus Puycreuua, Lindley. 
P. macreantca (Baker). Bulbo ovoideo, foliis 2 anguste ligulatis 
scapo brevioribus carnosis glauco-viridibus 2—8 lin. latis facie 
canaliculatis, scapo tereti subpedali, spathz valvis lmearibus, 
umbellis 4—6-floris, pedicellis 1—14 poll. longis, floribus rubris 
horizontalibus anguste infundibuliformibus, ovario turbinato, 
limbi 18—14 lin. longi segmentis oblanceolatis basi connatis, 
flore expanso dimidio superiore falcatis, staminibus inequali- 
bus 8 longioribus perianthio demum equilongis, stylo exserto. 
—Eustephia macleanica, Herbert, in Bot. Mag. sub. t. 3865 
(nomen solum). 

A native of Chili, imported to England long ago by Mr. 
Maclean, and now again lately from the Province of Mendoza by 
Mr. Reed. 
Bulb ovoid, an inch and a half thick, with dark brown tunicated 
coats. Leaves two, one only fully developed with the flowers, 
shorter than the scape, fleshy, suberect, glaucous-green, two to 
three lines broad, bluntish, channelled down the face, rounded 
on the back. Scape terete, glaucous, about a foot high. Spathe 
with two outer linear valves and inner filiform ones at the base of 
each pedicel. Pedicels slender, an inch to an inch and a half 
long. Flowers horizontal, red, narrowly funnel-shaped, fourteen 
to fifteen lines long; ovary turbinate; segments oblanceolate, 
distinctly eight- to ten-nerved, connate at the base, connivent in 
the lower half, faleate in the upper half in the expanded flower. 
Stamens unequal, the three longest finally as long as the segments. 
Style slightly declinate, finally a little exserted. 
Tas. 332.—1, pistil and stamens, natural size. 2, inner segment 
of perianth; 8, outer segment of perianth; 4, horizontal section of 
ovary: all magnified.—J. G. B. 
This Phycella will probably prove as hardy as P. ignea, which 
will thrive in a damp sheltered border in the open garden. 
I have as yet grown it in good turfy loam, in a pit just 
protected from severe frosts. Mr. E. C. Reed sent me bulbs of 
this plant from Mendoza, about three years since.—W. W.S. 
