Chlidanthus
(from clideios, delicate, and anthos, a flower). ORD. Amaryllideae. A small genus, containing two or three species, confined to South America. They are very ornamental, half-hardy, bulbous plants, the leaves appearing after the flowers. They should be grown in the open air, in a compost of peat, leaf soil, and loam, in equal parts, with some sand, in well-drained pots, until autumn, when they should be removed to a cool part of the greenhouse, and kept dry until the following April; they may then be repotted, watered, and allowed a little more warmth. Propagated freely by offsets, which may be removed, when repotting, in spring. C. fragrans (fragrant). fl. yellow, fragrant, sub-sessile, in few-flowered umbels; perianth with an erect cylindrical tube, widened at the mouth, and a nearly equal somewhat spreading limb of six segments. June and July. l. linear-lorate, sheathing at the base. Bulbs truncated Buenos Ayres, &c., 1820. (B. R. 640.)