366. CRINUM. HAKENLILIE.
Corolla infundibuliformis semisexfida; tubo filiformi, limbo patulo
recurvato, laciniis subulatis, canaliculati. Germen fundo corollae tectum.
Filamenta fauci tubi inserta, discreta.
367. AMARYLLIS. AMARYLLIS.
Corolla hexapetaloidea, irregularis. Filamenta fauci tubi inserta,
declinata, inaequalia proportione vel directione.
1. A. lutea. Die gelbe A.
Spatha uniflora indivisa, obtusa; flore sessili, corolla campanulata,
erecta, basi breve tubulosa, staminibus erectis, alternis brevioribus.
Habitat in Hispania, Italia, Thracia.
2. A. Belladonna. Die westindische A.
Spatha multiflora; corollis erectiusculis hexapetalis, laciniis planis;
scapo compresso; foliis acute canaliculatis, obtuse carinatis, glaberrimis.
Habitat in Caribaeis, Barbados, Surinamo.
3. A. formosissima. Die schöuste A.
Spatha uniiflora; indivisa; flore pedicellato, corolla bilabiata, nutante,
profunde sexpartita, genitalibus declinatis.
Habitat in America meridionali.
4. A. orientalis. Die orientalische A.
Spatha multiflora; floribus pedicellatis sexpartitis; germinibus
cuneiformibus angulatis; foliis ovatis.
Habitat ad Caput bonae spei.
Note the trifid stigma on Amaryllis Belladonna.
"Johannes Gessner (1709-1790) was Professor of Mathematics and Physics at
the University of Zürich. He made a number of contributions to the
science of botany, and became a close personal friend of Linnaeus and Von
Haller. Indeed his Dissertations de partium vegetations et
fructificationis structura, differentia et usu was published twice by
Linnaeus; the first time in the Oriatione de peregrinationibus intra
patriam, Lugduni Batavorum, 1743 (pp. 55-108), the second time in the
Fundamentis botanicis, Halae, 1747 (pp. 33-78)." Conway Zirkle, The
Beginnings of Plant Hybridization, 1935.
