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AMARYLLIS crocata.~ 
Reflex-flowered Amarylhs. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
AMARYLLIS. Supra fol. 23. 
A. crocata, spatha bivalvi, pluriflora, pedicellis subzequali; corolla in- 
zquali, nutante, divaricato-ringente, tubo germen vix equante ; lacinia 
summa remota, partim reflexa, lateralibus cunctis in imam deflexam & 
duplo angustiorem obliquantibus : fauce tubi nuda. 
Bulbus tectus membranis pallido-fuscis. Folia plura, bifaria, recurvd, 
lorato-lanceolata fine obtuso-attenuato, striata insterstittis per lineolas trans 
versas interruptas cancellatis, subsesquipedalia duasque uncias ad summum 
lata, nec glauca. Scapus glaucissimus, bipedalis, columnaris crassitudine 
digitt majoris, teres, bast purpurascens. Spatha (in presenti specimine) 4= 
Jjlora, lanceolata, citd exarescens, reflexa, striata. edunculi erecti, biune 
ciales, obtuse triquetri. Germ. viride, oblongum, obtuse trigonum, tubo 
crassius et feré longius ; loculi ovulis focti_numerosis compresso-cumulatis. - 
Cor. miniato-crocata, venis simplicibus parallelis striata, subquadriuncialis ; 
inferné brevitér in tubum-wvirentem imbricato-connata ; faux brevis, amplius 
turbinata, ints stellata radiis senis subrhomboideo-lanceolatis flavo-virentibus s 
limbus radiato-recurvus; laciniz ovali-lanceolate, subundulate exteriores trine 
latiores, hamato-mucronate, suprema in labium summum procul segregatay 
laterales duce superiores horizontalitér divergentes, opposite, mutica, Tatete 
utroque replicato-undulate, infima omnium angustior, elongato-oblonga, apice 
rotundata. Stam. declinato-assurgentia, alterné longiora, corolla + circitér 
breviora: fil. § stylus rubent. Stigmata profundiis discreta, lineari-teretia, 
obtusa, alba. 
The same collection which two months ago enabled us to 
add the Amarytuis ruéi/a to the list of this splendid genus, 
has in the present supplied another unrecorded species, su- 
perior in beauty to the former. It is said to have been 
found in the Brazils by Mr. E. Woodford ; and received by 
the way of Lisbon by Mr. Griffin, with whom it flowered 
in the dry-stove of his garden at South Lambeth in May 
last, for the first time. 
Independent of other peculiarities, it is at once dis- 
tinguished by the remarkably insulated upper middle seg- 
ment of its corolla, farther removed from its two immediate 
lateral ones than in any species we can recollect, and forms 
alone the upper lip of the flower; while the under-lip may 
be said to consist of the remainder, four of which converge 
towards the lower middle one, which does not project as in 
