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“AMARYILIS psittacina. 
Parrot Amarylis. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. I, Germ. inferum. 
AMARYLLIDER. Brown prod. 296. Sect. I. Rad. bulbosa, — 
Flores spathacei, umbellati, rard solitarii. 
AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 1. fol. 23: 
Div. Bi-multiflore. Tubus coronatus. Folia bifaria. 
A. psittacina, biflora, subsemiringens ; tubi membrana brevissima bicolori 
denticulaté: staminibus inclusis: _ . 
Bulbus’ in collum productus.. Folia 7, lorata, obtuso-acuminata, glau- 
ciuscula, unciam v. sesquiunciam transversa, erecto-divergentia., Scapus (2 
successivi) bipedalis, cylindraceo-attenuatus, rotundaté anceps, basi crassi- 
tudine pollicis ». crassior, rubens. Spatha lanceolata, pauld longior pedun- 
cults, pallidé rubescens. Pedunculi teretes, strictt, virides, crassitudine 
penne gallinacee minoris, duplo breviores Horiaee. Germen obscuro-virens, 
oblongum, rotundato-trizonum, semunciale v. circa. Cor. nutans, viridis, 
puniceo-picta, su ra reticulato-venosa, turbinato-campanulata, 5-uncialis, ab 
ipsa base sensim dilatescens, ricti: semihiulco semipedem transverso patens: lac. 
cuneato-ovales, lanceolate, ad membranam faucialem usque. imbricato-cohe- 
rentes, indé discrete: exteriores 3 alterne duplo latiores et aliquantim 
longiores, brevitér acuminate mucronate non tamen cum hamo, margine superné 
undulate ; suprema (ex exterioribus ) depresso-porrecta, distantior, 2 uncias 
lata; laterales 2 superiores (ex interioribus) non multd uncid latiores, ob- 
longo-lanceolate, divaricato-dispans@, sursiim subobliquantes ; laterales 2 in- 
feriores (ex exterioribus) cum summa consentientes, imam versits decurva- 
obliquate ; ima (ex interioribus una) omnibus angustior, ligulato-lanceolata, 
acuminata, declivis. Corona faucialis pro spatio unius uncie a fundo di- 
stans, vic semilineam lata, viridi-punicea. Fil. subequalia, pariim breviora 
imé lacinid, fasciculata, declinato-assurgentia, infra virentia, medio albicantia, 
supra rubentia: anth. obliquo-incumbentes, purpurea, polline ochroleuco. 
Stylus inclusus, paulo longior aut crassior filamentis, filiformi-trigonus, puni- 
ceus: stig. ex 3 continuis coadunatis. Flores pulcherrimi, tnodort, . 
The present is the fifth unrecorded Amaryius from’ the 
Brazils which has been published in this work out of the 
collection of Mr. Griffin. To have been the first to bring 
within the sphere of science and into culture an equal num- 
ber of plants, belonging to a same remote region, of a same 
genus, and all interesting, either on the score of curiosity 
or beauty, within little more than two years, has probably 
never before been the chance of any single collector in 
Europe. 
The bulb was sent about 3 years ago by Mr. E. Woodford, 
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