Volume 3 — PLATE CLXXIX. AMARYLLIS RETICULATA. Netted-flowered Lily-Daffodil.

CLASS VI. ORDER I.

HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Six Chives. One Pointal.

ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER.

Corolla 6-petala, campanulata. Stigma trifidum.

Blossom 6-petalled, bell-shaped. Summit three-cleft.

See Amaryllis Radiata, Pl. XCV. Vol. II.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Amaryllis spatha multiflora; corollis reticulatis, purpureis; foliis oblongis, reticulatis, basi attenuatis.

Lily Daffodil, sheath many flowered; blossoms netted and purple; leaves oblong, netted, and tapered at the base.

REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.

1. A Petal and its Chive, attached, as it is in the flower.

2. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and Summit.

The Amaryllis reticulata, a native of Brazil, South America, was first cultivated in the year 1772, at the Hammersmith nursery; the bulbs had been received from Portugal by Edward Whittaker Gray, M.D. of the British Museum; and were by him communicated to Messrs. Lee and Kennedy. Our drawing was made this spring, in May, from a plant in the invaluable, and extensive collection of hothouse plants, at Stepney, belonging to T. Evans, Esq. where it flowers annually.

To ensure the flowering of this plant, it is necessary to plunge the pot in the heat of the bark-bed of the hothouse; and, during the winter months, to keep the earth rather dry, as the bulbs are very subject to rot, without that precaution. It should be planted in a composition of old rotten dung, or leaf mould, and a small proportion of loam.