The handsome plant here represented is a native of Saint Helena, and is known by the name of Saint Helena Red-wood. Although introduced into this country by Sir Joseph Banks in the year 1772, it is at this time one of our very rarest and most desirable of hot-house plants. Mr. Aiton enumerates it in the Hortus Kewensis, but marks no time for its flowering; which therefore, we must suppose, but seldom occurs. Our specimen was obligingly sent us by T. Evans, esq. from his fine collection at Stepney in June 1803, and we last month saw it beautifully in bloom at the honourable Charles Greville’s, Paddington. In the colour of its flowers, and in other particulars, it appears to vary. Plukenet calls them rubicund: ours were white: and in the extensive herbarium of A. B. Lambert, esq. we have examined a Saint Helena specimen with purple flowers, and less hoary but more reticulated leaves, which wanted the minute ferruginous spotting so abundant upon ours. It is propagated by cuttings in the usual way. [Illustration] PLATE CCCXC. AMARYLLIS SPECTABILIS. _Waved-leaved Amaryllis._ CLASS VI. ORDER I. _HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Six Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. COROLLA hexapetaloidea irregularis. Filamenta fauci tubi inserta declinata inæqualia proportione vel directione. COROLLA 6-petal-like irregular. Chives inserted into the throat of the tube, bent downward, and unequal in proportion or direction. SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &C. AMARYLLIS, spatha multiflora, tubo corollæ laciniis sesquilongiore, foliis lato-subulatis serrulatisque scapo longioribus. AMARYLLIS, with a many-flowered sheath, the tube of the corolla longer than its segments, the leaves broad-awl-shaped serrulated and longer than the stalk. DESCRIPTIO. _Radix_ bulbus mediocris tunicatus, et rotundatus, pallidusque. _Folia_ multifaria, lato-subulata, sesquipedalia, subcanaliculata, lævia, viridia, carinâ pallidâ, striisque parallelis ad lucem utrinque etiam pallidis; basin versus undulata, et aliquo attenuata; margine cartilagineo, serrulis minutissimis, expansis, albis, remotisque, aspero. _Scapus_ foliis duplo brevior, rubens, grossus, obtuse compressus, obsolete at irregulariter sulcato-striatulus, æquali crassitie. _Spatha_ diphylla, subquadriflora, valida, foliolis lineatis, apicibus obtusissimis, et minute emarginatis, intus albis, extus virentibus, tinctura rubedinis. _Flores_ sessiles, hexapetaloidei, tubulosi: tubus curvatus, angulatus, sulcatus, 5-uncialis et ultra, at gracilis, laciniis sesquilongior. _Petala_ late lanceolata, undulata, acuta, alba, vittâ purpureâ. _Filamenta_ alba, declinata, laciniis longe breviora. _Antheræ_ versatiles, arcuatæ, magnæ, demum atræ. _Germen_ sessile, compressum, viride. _Stylus_ albus, superne purpureus, antheras superans. _Stigma_ minutum. Infra germina, filamenta perpauca, staminiformia, sæpius adsunt. REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. A petal with its chive attached.