elliptic oblong form, with a rounded point, not ovate and 
acute; in having’ stamens so short as not to elevate the 
tops of the anthers above the orifice of the faux,. not equal 
in length to the limb; a style which scarcely overtops 
these, and lastly, in having pedicles two or three times 
shorter than the flower, not equal to it. 
In character the genus scarcely differs from AMARYLLIS 
by any other feature than in having a limb three or more 
times shorter than the tubular portion of the corolla. 
' Bulb ovate. Leaves three, narrowly lorate, glaucous, 
narrowed and involutely channelled downwards, flatter up- 
wards, scarcely more than the fourth of an inch broad. 
Scape glaucous, hardly equal to the leaves, about as thick 
as a middling sized pen. Spathe many (10)-flowered, lan- 
ceolate, sphacelate, reddish, longer than the peduncles. 
Corolla cernuous, of a deep scarlet or poppy colour, about 
two inches long, several times longer than its peduncle, 
marked with six longitudinal equidistant paler lines; tube 
slender, widening into a much broader cylindrical faux ; 
limb nearly four times as short as the tube and faux together, 
segments oblong, obtuse, inner rather broadest, outer ter- 
minated by a small mucro. Stamens exceedingly short, 
yellow. 
The drawing was made from a plant which flowered in 
Mr. Burchell’s collection at l'ulham, this autumn. A green- 
house plant. . 
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# The corolla dissected vertically. 
