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AMARYLLIS flexuosa. 
Pustulous-leaved Amaryllis. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen in- 
ferum. . 
Amaryiiipex. Brown prod. 296. Sect. I. Radix 
bulbosa. Flores spathacei, umbellati, rard solitar. 
AMARYLLIS. Vide supra vol. 1,-fol. 23. 
Div. Hexapetalo-partite: subrotate. Folia bifaria. 
A. flexuosa, spatha pauciflora; foliis loratis angustis obtusulis minutd 
pustuloso-punctatis; limbi laciniis recurvo-divaricatis undulatis, und 
fasciculo declinato staminum subtensd, remota. Nod. de amar. in 
Journ. of scien. and the arts, v. 2. p. 365. n. 39. . 
Amaryllis flexuosa. Jacq. hort: schanb. 1. 35. t. 67. Willd. sp. pl. 9. 
60. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 229. 
Undulata minor multiflora ; humilis major pluriflora ; flexuosa maxima 
pauciflora: caterum inter se persimiles, Hujus folia modo pedalia, semun- 
ciam lata, subtus pallentia et conspicuits pustulata. Scapus bipedalis, modd 
calamum crassus. - Umbella faxa, pedunculis strictis, Sragilibus, longioribus 
spatha subrosed lanceolata ana aee Cor. rosea, laciniis tantim ex disco 
incrassato connexis, ceterum distantibus. Stigmata tria, replicata, rubra, 
puberula. Germen loculis suboctospermis. Capsula bulbisperma, Vix con- 
stanter? Bulbus indusiis membrano-fibrosis, plexi intergerino fibrarum. bom 
bycino atque ductili. Nob. in loc. cit. 
‘A native of the Cape of Good Hope. Introduced by 
Mr, Masson in 1795. It is extremely difficult to define 
any distinctions between this species, humilis, and undulata, 
which do not resolve into difference of size and its conse- 
quences. In flexuosa the leaves are twice or thrice broader 
than in humilis, and the whealy or pustulous efflorescence 
which covers them is more conspicuous, but that is all. In 
humilis the same appearance is more prominent than in wn- 
dulaia, where the foliage is the narrowest of the three. In 
each the undulate segments of the corolla converge towards 
the upper middle one, forming a semicircularly radiated 
lip, the lowermost middle one sometimes keeping its posj- 
tion-under the style, sometimes slanting away from it with 
the others. The seeds in all are with us small green succu- 
lent roundish bulblike masses, but more numerous in 
flexuosa than in the other two. They may be distinct 
species, and probably are, but we confess ourselves unable 
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