Sprekelia
(so called after J. H. Sprekelsen, of Hamburg, who wrote on liliaceous plants, and died in 1764; from him Linnaeus received S. formosissima). ORD. Amaryllideae. A genus of two species of greenhouse or half-hardy, tunicated-bulbous plants, requiring culture similar to Amaryllis (which see).
S. Cybister (Cybister). Tumbler Sprekelia. fl. reflexed; perianth red below, somewhat greenish above, the segments broad below, pale-striped within, long-narrowed above; filaments very long, reddish towards the base; peduncles above 1in. long; scape strong, sub-terete, upwards of 2ft. high, sanguineous below, four-flowered. April. l. appearing after the flowers, 1 1/4in. broad, reddish in the centre towards the base. Bolivia, 1840. A very remarkable plant. (B. M. 3872.) S. formosissima (very beautiful).* Jacobea Lily. fl. crimson or white, large and showy, pedicellate, in a spathe-like bract; perianth very declinate, without any tube, the segments scarcely unequal; stamens affixed at the base of the segments; scape fistular. June. l. late in appearing, loriform-linear. h. 2ft. Mexico, 1658. (S. B. F. G. ser. ii. 144.) SYNS. S. glauca (B. R. 1841, 16), Amaryllis formosissima (B. M. 47).
S. glauca (glaucous). A synonym of S. formosissima.