Every one will perceive the close resemblance of our 
plant to AmAryLLis equestris (miniata of the Flora peru- 
viana); but on inspecting the interior of the tube of the 
corolla, the whole of this in ruéi/a will be found to be 
completely smooth, while its mouth in equestris is always 
ubescent ; the segments are also narrower and longer in 
the present species, the stigmas far more deeply separated, 
and the spathe dries quickly away, and does not remain 
upright and long unaltered as in the other. More distinc- 
tions will probably be detected on a comparison of the liy- 
ing specimens of the two, They are natives of opposite 
sides of the South American continent; equestris (miniata) 
being found in Peru, in woods and field-sides on the 
Andees; and is called by the spanish colonists lacre de 
montana, or mountain-sealing-wax, in allusion to the colour 
of the flower. And it is said that where the bulb is cut, the 
part on exposure to the air becomes vermilion; and that 
the juice is used as an ink for the signature of the name to 
letters, having been found to acquire the same fine colour 
‘when dry. ‘These circumstances most probably belong also 
to rutila; the flower of which is scentless; the vermilion 
on the inside sparkling and streaked with deeper coloured 
feathered lines; on the outside opaque suffused with pmk 
and tinged partially with green and yellow; the funyel or 
throat within of a greenish white and six-rayed, 
The drawing was made from a bulb that flowered with 
more of the same species in the dry-stove in Mr. Grittin’s 
garden at South Lambeth, in March last, ; 
a A lower portion of the corolla cut through vertically on one side and. 
detached from the germen, to show the insertion of the stamens, and. 
smooth tube. 6 The pistil when dissected from the corolla, - 
