BOTANY Hippeastrum (Amaryllis) procerum Duchrt Brésil (Serre chaude ou tempérée). Discovery by the botanist Binot mountains of Rio de Janeiro and sent to the Imperial Society of Horticulture and central Paris under the name of 'Empress of Brazil' for its grandeur and superb beauty. In detail: 1. complete plant in very small scale; 2. flower size; 3. longitudinal section of a flower; 4. cross-section of the ovary. Illustration plant lithographic L. Stroobant. Table color lithograph from the opera "L'Illustration Horticole" Ambroise Verschaffelt; edited by Charles Lemaire; Ghent; Belgium; in 1864.