1038 
AMARYLLIS aulica; var. platypetala 
‘Organ Mountain Amaryllis. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDER. 
AMARYLLIS. Supra, vol. 3. fol. 226. 
a a ee ee eee a ART ta a RET IE 
Div. Bi-multiflore: tubus coronatus: folia bifaria. 
A. aulica; biflora, ringens, foliis nitidis, tubi corona firm colorat& obsoleté 
denticulat, lacinia ima limbi inferné involuta, staminibus inclusis. Ker 
supra, vol. 6. fol. 444. 
. stenopetala. Supra, fol. 444. 
8. platypetala. 
Lacinie perianthii latiores, magis sequales, obtusiores. 
pe a ES LT RE 
For this fine plant we are indebted to Richard Harrison, 
Esq., from whom we received it inJune 1826. It was sent 
to England by Mr. William Harrison, from Rio, and 
flowered in Mr. Richard Harrison’s stove, at Aigburgh. 
That it is a variety of Amaryllis aulica, we think there 
can be no doubt; butit is well distinguished by its broader 
petals, and by its more robust habit. That the species 
varies very much in its native place, we have reason to 
Know, from having seen flowers of several intermediate 
states produced by bulbs imported direct from Brazil. 
A variety from Mrs. Arnold Harrison is at this moment 
on our table, which is intermediate, in the shape of petals, 
between the sort now published and the original form of 
the species; and in which the fleshy ring of the orifice of 
the tube is so much diminished in breadth as to have 
become nearly obliterated. 
While we determine to consider this a variety of A.. 
aulica, we ought to state that, upon the same principles 
which have led us to this decision, all those forms of 
Amaryllis which border upon A. rutila, such as A. fulgida, 
