821 : 
ZEPHYRANTHES rosea. 
Rose-coloured Zephyranthes. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNI4d. 
Nat. ord. AMARYLLIDER. 
ZEPHYRANTHES Herbert. Perianthium verticale, infundibulare, 
quale. Stamina regularia, uno (sepius) sejuncto, basi sepalorum inserta. 
Anthere adnate. Stylus declinatus. Semina plana, membranacea. Testa 
atr.— Plante Occidentales; foliis linearibus, scapis 1-2 floris cum foliis pro- 
venientibus. ° 
Z.. rosea, foliis humifusis linearibus scapo unifloro brevioribus, perianthio ex- 
panso: sepalis ovalibus apiculatis, spatha bifida apice carnosa. 
Cespitosa. Folia plurima, perennia, linearia, humifusa, plana, glabra, 
striata, apice rotundata, scapt longitudine v. breviora. Scapus (cum flore) 
~ semipedalis, compressus, glaber. Spatha 1-flora, biloba, glabra, rubescens, 
lobis apice viridibus carnosis. Pedunculus 14 uncialis, teres, ‘spatha duplo 
longior, strictus. Perianthium roseum, regulare, erectum, infundibulare, 
sepalis rotato-patentibus, ovalibus, apiculatis, infra medium viridibus, ad 
basin fere liberis, interioribus angustioribus.. Stamina regularia, equalia, 
in basin sepalorum inserta, tisque breviora. Anthere adnate, lineares, erecte. 
Ovarium parvum, subrotundum, 3-loculare, ovulis distichis, indefinitis (12). 
Stylus declinatus, validus, teres, sepalorum feré longitudine. Stigma 3-/o- 
bum, lobis patentibus: superficie stigmaticd minute glandulosd. Semina.... 
This beautiful bulbous plant was found at the Hayannah 
by Mr. George Don, and brought home by him, in 1823, 
for the Horticultural Society; in whose garden it flowered, 
for the first time, in June last. It is a greenhouse plant, of 
easy culture and propagation. The delicate rose-coloured © 
blossoms, which are produced in abundance at a time when. 
little similar is in flower, render it a valuable addition to 
our collections. We have heard of a rose-coloured Z. tu- 
bispatha being in the gardens of Paris. Can it be this? 
The name Zephyranthes was first proposed by Mr. Her- 
bert (Appendix, p. 36), for a generic appellation of a small 
group of Amaryllideous plants, of which A. dAtamasco and | 
tubispatha ave the true species. It appears to us that these 
have been separated with propriety from the old genus 
Amaryllis, and that they may safely be characterized by 
their nearly regular flowers, which have a vertical or nearly 
vertical position, and by their stamens not being bent. to 
one side and unequal in length, but equal and spreading 
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