934. m 
_ AMARYLLIS equestris. g. mayor. 
_ Large Star-flowered Amaryllis. 
HEXANDRIA ONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Nancisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. IJ. Germen inferum, 
f AMARYLLIDER. Brown prod. 296. Sect. I. 
AMARYLLIS. Supra fol. 226. 
See Div. IV. Bi-multiflore. Tubus coronatys. Folia bifaria. 
A. equestris; (tubo fimbriato) 2-3-flora, pedicellis spatha erecta brevioribus, 
tubo filiformi horizontali, limbo obliqué patulo, sursim curvo. Hort. 
Kew. 1. 417. ‘ t % ‘ a 
() minor. : $8 
‘Amaryllis equestris. Jacq. hort. schaenb. 1. 33. t. 63.  Curtis’s magaz. 305. 
_ Willd, sp. pl. 253. Redouté liliac. 32.. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 224, Nobis 
in Journ. of scien. and the arts. 2. 854. ; 
Amaryllis dubia. Linn. amen. acad. 8. 254. ; ; 
Lilium americanum puniceo flore Belladonna dictum. Herm. parad. 194%. 
t. 194, 
Lilium rubicundum. Merian surinam. t. 22. 
(8) major. In loco presenti. 
{y) plena. In hortzs sub nomine Amaryllidis pulcherrime ? 
Folia subguaterna, lanceolato-lorata, equalia vel breviora scapo, unciam 
ad sesquiunciam lata. Scapus 1-2-pedalis, glaucus, teres, fistulosus. Spatha 
lanceolata, erecta, equalis pedunculis.. Pedunculi stricti, teretes, maximunt 
triunciales. Flores inodort, miniati, striati, 3-5-unciales v. ultra. Tubus 
l-sesquiuncialis, calamum crassus v. duplo crassior, deflecus: faux patens, 
stella chloroleucd notata. Limbus deflexus concolor, rictit obliqué divaricato. 
Stamina Jasciculata, declinata. In 8 majore barba densior longits inserpit 
fauce quam in « minore. ‘ 
The smaller variety of this species has been long known 
in our collections, and represented in various works, as is 
shown by the synonymy. But the present we do not find 
any where noticed. Mr. Griffin, who contributed the speci- 
men from which the drawing was made, takes it to be the 
parent of the double Amaryuuis, which was imported a few 
years since by Messrs. Frasers, and well known among 
gardeners by the appellation of pulcherrima. Its bulbs were 
received by Mr. Griffin, a short time ago, from Guadaloupe. 
The main difference between it and the other variety seems 
to consist in this being more than twice the size of that, and 
in haying a pubescence at the orifice of the tube of much 
greater breadth. 
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