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AMARYLLIS ignea. . 
Fiery Amaryllis. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDER. Brown prodr. 1. 206.. Sect. I. 
AMARYLLIS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 206. 
A, ignea; umbelld 6-flora, perianthii laciniis in tubo cylindraceo convolutis, 
pedunculis perianthii nutantis longitudine, stylo exserto, stigmate sim- 
plicissimo. is 
Bulbus_ oviformis, brunneus, hemi-epigeus. Folia disticha, lineari-lan- 
ceolata, 14 pedalia, leté viridia, carinata, recurvo-patentia, striata, apice 
obtusa. Scapus' teres, 2 pedalis. Umbella 6-flora, spathd diphylla, mem- 
branaced, sphacelatd, pedunculis multoties breviore, bracteis jiliformibus, 
flaceidis.. Pedunculi teretes, erecti, perianthii longitudine. Flores nutaniis, 
flammei, infra limbum pallide virides. Perianthii lacinie in tubo cylindra- 
ceo convolute, ad apicem subpatentes, ovate, plane, apiculate, tres interi- 
ores exterioribus supertecte. Stamina sex, declinata, laciniarum longitudine- 
Stylus filiformis, declinatus, staminibus longior, apice croceus ; stigma sim- 
plicissimum. : 
pte ae res 
For our drawing of this charming plant we are obliged 
to the late Mr. Lee, of the Hammersmith Nursery; to whom 
it had been sent from Chili by Lord Cochrane, with other 
curious bulbous plants. seth 
It is cultivated in pots in a light loamy soil; but will, we 
fear, be found unwilling to flower. We wish that persons 
who have opportunities of procuring bulbs from Chili would 
endeavour to obtain them in abundance, in order that ex- 
periments might be made for ascertaining whether they are 
- capable of being cultivated in this country in the open bor- 
ders. The surprizing beauty of this tribe of plants in the 
above-mentioned country, and in Peru, renders them most 
interesting objects; but their scarcity in this kingdom de- 
ters those who possess them from risking their total loss by 
an exposure to the vicissitudes and accidents of our climate. 
In referring the plant to the genus Amaryllis we have 
been influenced not only by the example of Dr. Sims, whose 
Amaryllis cyrtanthoides is clearly a congener of this, but by 
the unsettled state in which the whole order still remains. 
That the old genus Amaryllis contains the rudiments of 
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