Striped Barbados lily, Hippeastrum striatum. Vermilion-flowered amaryllis, Amaryllis rutila. Native to South America, imported from Brazil by orchid collector William Griffin. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Smith after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from his own Botanical Register, J. Ridgeway, London, 1815.

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