Refugium Botanicum.] [September, 1869. 
TAB. 168. 
Natural Order AMARYLLIDACER. 
Tribe AMARYLLE®. 
Genus CALuipsycHE, Herb. 
C. mrrasitis (Baker). Foliis oblongo-spathulatis acutis duplo lon- 
gioribus quam latis utrinque costam 20-nervatis, scapo tripedali 
antice sulcato, floribus in umbellis sub-80-floris conferte horizon- 
taliter biseriatis dispositis, perianthio unciali pedicello non duplo 
longiore, ovario oblongo, tubo supra ovarium campanulato, foliolis 
limbi pallide flavo-viridibus, staminibus corolla tota triplo lon- 
gioribus. 
A native of Peru. 
Bulb oblong, tunicated, two inches in diameter, with brown 
membranous coats. Leaves two, one produced after the other 
about the time when the plant flowers, the petiole stout, sub- 
erect, clasping the stem at the base, ultimately a foot long, 
the blade oblong-spathulate, a foot long by five to six inches 
broad two-thirds of the way down, narrowed from the middle to 
an acute point, the texture moderately thick and firm, the mid- 
rib thick and much raised in the lower part, with about twenty 
distinct veins on each side of it, the upper surface bright green, 
the lower paler, the edges revolute. Scape three feet high, quite 
erect, hollow in the middle, fluted down the face, six to nine lines 
in thickness. Flowers about thirty in an umbellate head, 
spreading horizontally in all directions from the centre in two 
close irregular rows, subtended by five to six small linear mem- 
branous bracts. Pedicels eight to nine lines long. lowers an 
inch long, the ovary green, oblong, three lines long, the cam- 
panulate tube above it equalling it, the divisions oblong, pale 
ereenish yellow, six lines deep. Stamens and style subequal, 
filiform, declinate, recurved at the apex, finally above three 
inches long. 
Tab. 168.—1, whole plant, except the root, much reduced; 2, leaf; 
3, head of flowers and upper part of scape; 4, separate flower; 5, ditto, 
with perianth and four stamens cut away: all natural size. 6, base of two 
filaments ; 7, ovary and base of style; 8, horizontal section of ovary: all 
magnified.—J. G. B. 
