Valo ba. Pastas i7e1) Durand. eb Sehinz., 
(AMARYLLIS purpurea;)@: minor, 
Lesser Purple-flowered Amaryliis. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNEA: 
Nat. ord. Naxcissi. Jussiew gen. 54. Div. I. 
_. _. AMARYLIIDER. Brown prod. 1. 296. Sect. I 
AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 226. : 
_ Div. V. Bi-multiflore. Tubus nudus. Folia bifaria. — _ 
A. purpurea, corollx limbo erecto, rotato-turbinato, subobliquo; tubo faucem 
membranaceo-duplicatam zquante: staminibus erecto-distantibus, incur- 
vescenti-patentibus. Nob. in journ. of science.and the arts. 2. 360., 
Amaryllis purpurea. Hort, Kew. 1. 417. ed. 2,2. 224. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 53. 
Nob. in curtis’s magaz. 1430. _, 
Amaryllis elata. Jacq. hort. schenb. 1. 32. t. 62. 
Amaryllis speciosa. L’Heritier sert. angl. 12. 
Crinum speciosum. Lin. suppl.A95. Thunb. prod. 59. 
(«) major; coccineo-rubens, fauce hyalino-fenestrata; antheris longioribus. 
Nob. in journ. of science and the arts. 2. 360. 
Amaryllis purpurea. Curtis's magaz. l. c. 
(8) minor; cerasino-rubens, fauce opaco-fenestrati;  antheris brevioribus. 
Nob. in journ. of science and the arts. l. c. 
Bulbus oblongo-ovatus. Folia interiora altiora, scapum compresso-cylin- 
draceum 2-3-pedalem subequantia. Spatha pedunculis flore bis terve brevio- 
ribus longior. Cor. 3-4-uncialis, infundibuliformis, recta: tubus rotundato- 
trigonus; faux late turbinata, initis membrand ad laciniarum divisuras sexden- 
taté accreto-duplicata; limbus isté subequalis, obsolete irregularis, laciniis 
reticulato-rugulosis, catimis rhombeo-ovatis acutulis, intimis ovali-lanceolatis 
% angustioribus. Fil. inclusa, alterné subbreviora: anth. verticaliter appense 
versatiles: pollen luteum. Stylus inclinatus; stigmata obsolete trina. Germ. 
oblongum viride. Semina paleaceo-compressa, ald laté membranaced, nucleo 
parvo compresso. Nob. loc. cit. 
Introduced by Mr. Masson from the Cape of Good Hope 
in 1774. 
#, the large variety, has a flower nearly twice the size 
of that in 6, the present plant, with a deeper poppy-red. 
corolla, and is very scarce in our collections. « differs 
moreover from (, in having the webbed intervals which 
connect the lower parts of the segments at the faux trans- 
parent, instead of opaque, as well as by far longer anthers. 
Our drawing was taken in the hothouse of the nursery 
of Messrs. Colvill, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. 
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