Refugium Botanicum.] [September, 1869. 
TAB. 167. 
Natural Order AMARYLLIDACE#. 
Tribe AMARYLLEZ. 
Genus CatuipsycHe (Herb. Bot. Reg. 1842, Misc. p. 49). Perianthium 
tubo declinato, limbo regulari a latere compresso, lobis exterioribus 
cymbiformibus, interioribus latioribus, apice subreflexis, antico 
genitalia initio deflexa amplectente. Filamenta libera, filiformia, 
basi tuberculata, ad basin limbi inserta, declinata, longe exserta. 
. Stylus filiformis, declinatus, apice recurvato. Stigma rotundato- 
dilatata. Ovarium obtuse triquetrum. Ovula in loculis copiosa, 
biseriata. 
©. aurantiaca (Baker). Foliis oblongis acutis triplo longioribus quam 
latis utrinque costam 9—10-nervatis, scapo bipedali, umbellis 5—6- 
floris, perianthio biunciali pedicello quadruplo longiore, ovario ven- 
tricoso trisulcato, tubo supra ovarium campanulato, foliolis limbi 
aurantiacis, staminibus corolla tota duplo longioribus. 
A native of South America, the exact country not known. 
Root atunicated bulb with brown membranous coats. Leaves 
on a short thick petiole, oblong, acute, cuneate at the base, not 
fully developed till the plant has done flowering, then about six 
inches long by a third as broad, bright green, moderately thick 
in texture, with nine to ten conspicuous veins on each side of the 
midrib. Stem nearly two feet high, firm, erect, terete, with a 
slight glaucous bloom. Flowers five to six in an umbel subtended 
by several linear membranous bracts. Pedicels finally half an 
inch long. Ovary ventricose, green, trisulcate, three lines long, 
with a campanulate tube above it about as long, the lobes bright 
yellow, eighteen to twenty-one lines long, the inner ones three- 
eighths of an inch broad, the outer rather less. Stamens curled 
up in the perianth before it expands, inserted at the throat of the 
tube, three inches long, filiform, nearly equal. Style slightly 
exceeding the stamens and more incurved at the point. Capsule 
sagittately trisulcate, with lobes half an inch deep. 
Tab. 167.— 1, lower part of flower; 2, horizontal section of ovary ; 
3, stigma: all magnified. 4, fruit with faded stamens and perianth, 
natural size.—J. G. B. 
