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AMARYLLIS insignis. 
Roahurgh’s Amaryltts. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNL4A. 4 
Nat. ord. Narcisst. Jussiew gen. 64. Div. IT. Germen inferum. 
; AMARYLLIDEE. Brown. prod. 1. 296. Sect. J. Radix 
bulbosa. Flores spathacei umbellati, raro solitarii. 
AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 226. ; a 
ee eet 
Div. Bulbisperme; foliis multifariis. ; 
A. insignis (sessiliflora) foliis numerosis patentibus lorato-acuminatis planius- 
culis margine scabro; floribus subdenis limbo nutante patentissimo obso- 
leté bilabiato subeequante tubum. ‘ 
Crinum latifolium. Roxburgh corom. ined. (exclusis synonymis ). Nobis in 
journ. of science and the arts. 3. 114; (excluso synonymo AMARYLLIDIS © 
latifolice cum omni synonymid). ‘ 
Bulbus porraceo-caudescens. Folia numerosa, multifariam patentia, 
lato-subulata (lorato-attenuata), gramineo-virentia, non glauca, 3-4-pedalia 
v. ultra, latitudine 3-4 unciali, margine scabro. Scapus lateralis, 3-pedalis, 
totus dilute-purpurascens, rore tentissimo canescens, tereti-compressus. Flores 
Subdeni, sessiles, roseo-candicantes, pomeridiant ut in proaimé affinibus 
omata, zeylanicd, §c., novemunciales, bracteis conspicuts interstinctt; tubus 
virescens: limbus campanulato-patens, obsolete bilabiatus, laciniis oblongis 
lanceolatis. Antherz ea luteo cinerascentes. 
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A magnificent species, introduced by Mr. Griffin, who 
-Teceived the bulbs from Ceylon. Plants of it flowered this 
Summer in the hothouse at South Lambeth, where many of 
the finest and most curious plants of this natural family 
have first appeared amongst us. 
JInsignis is nearly allied to zeylanica, ornata, gigantea, 
and latifolia. In the first, however, the leaves are conspi- 
Cuously undulate, smooth at the edge, narrower, shorter, 
and with a thicker midrib, the flowers much redder, the an- 
thers dark brown, and the bulb not elongated into a leek- 
like neck. Ornata is altogether a far smaller plant with 
fewer leaves, which are strongly channelled, and the limb of 
the corolla is considerably shorter than the tube. In gigantea 
the leaves are broad and oblong, and narrowed at both 
ends. In Jatifolia, with which our plant has been con- 
