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SPREKÉLIA formosissima.
Crimson Jcicobea Lily.
Linnean Class and Order. H E X A N D R IA M O N O G Y N IA .
Natural Order. A M A R Y L L ID EÆ . Brown prodr. 1. p. 296.
Subordo I I I . H i p p e a s t r e æ . Scapus cavus. Tubi faux arcta. S e mina
testa nigra. W. Herb. bot. mag. vol. 52. 2606. p . H I -
S P R E K E L I A . Perianthium corollaceum, 6 partitura, inæqualiter patentes:
<m6ms subnullus : segmentis inferioribus devexis ; superioribus re-
flexis. Stamina 6. Filamentis declinatis, recurvatis, fasciculatis, pariter
membrana connexa et perianthii basi inserta. Ovarium obtuse trigonum,
triloculare, trivalve: Ovula plana, in valvis biseriatim imbricata inserta.
Stylus filamentis longioribus apice adscendentibus. Stigma tripartita : segmentis
obtusis reflexis papillosis.
Sprekelia. Laur. Heist. Hescriptio novi generis plantæ rarissimæ et speciosissima
Africana ex Bulbosarum Classa, p . X I I . et X I I I . Brunsv.
1753. Herbert Appendix on Amaryl. p . 34-35.
S . formosissima. Herbert Appendix, p . 35. Sw t. hort. brit. edit. 2. p . 509.
Amaryllis formosissima. Linn. spec. p . 420. Ac t. holm. 1742. p . 93. t. 6.
Willd. spec. 2. p . 52. Curt. bot. mag. t. 47. Redout. Liliac. t. 4.
Lilio Narcissus Jacobeus flore sanguinea untante. B ill. elth. 1 .1 6 2 ./ . 196.
Knorr. Thesaur. t. 99.
I.ilio Narcissus I I I . Treio f o r . imag. t. 24.
Bulb roundish, with a long neck, thickly clothed with
thin brown scales. Leaves annual, green, varying from a
quarter to half an inch in breadth, and from 6 to 14 inches
in length, elongately linear, tapering to a point, channelled
down the centre, and keeled at the back, striated with numerous
longitudinal lines, generally erect when the plant is
in flower, afterwards more or less spreading. Scape hollow,
one or rarely two-flowered, with an acute angle on one side,
and a blunt one on the other, broadest below, and tapering
more or less towards the flower, also striated with riumerous
lines. Spathe surrounding the peduncle, about 3 inches in
length, succulent before the flower expands, afterwards becoming
dry and membranaceous, strongly ribbed, and purple
when fresh, point extending considerably above the
ovarium, frequently burst a little below the point, and the
point closed, sometimes open all the way to the end. Pe-
dimcle about two inches long, enclosed in the spathe, straight,
hollow, and striate, forming a sort of division or knot where
it and the spathe proceed from the scape. Ovarium bending
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