EUCHARIS  , in

botany, a genus of the natural order Amaryllidaceae, containing a few species, natives of Columbia . Eucharis amazonica or grandiflora is the best-known and most generally cultivated species . It is a bulbous plant with broad stalked leaves, and an erect scape 11 to 2 ft. long, bearing an umbel of three to ten large white showy flowers . The flowers resemble the daffodil in having a prominent central cup or corona, which is sometimes tinged with green . It is propagated by removing the offsets, which may be done in spring, potting them singly in 6-in. pots . It requires good loamy soil, with sand enough to keep the compost open, and should have a good supply of water and a temperature of 65° to 700 during the night, with a rise of 8° or 10° in the day . During summer growth is to be encouraged by repotting, but the plants should afterwards be slightly rested by removal to a night temperature of about 6o°, water being withheld for a time, though they must not go too long dry, the plant being an evergreen . By the turn of the year they may again have more heat and more water, and this will probably induce them to flower . After this is over they may be shifted and grown again as before; and, as they get large, either be divided to form new plants or allowed to develop into nobler specimens . With a stock of the smaller plants to start them in succession, they may be had in flower all the year round . A few years ago the bulbs of E. amazonica were badly inflicted with a disease known as the Eucharis mite, and all kinds of remedies were tried without avail, although steeping in Condy's fluid appeared to give the best results . The disease appears to have died out again .

Other species of Eucharis now met with in gardens are E . Bakeriana, E . Mastersii, E . Lowii and E . Sanderii . A remarkable hybrid was raised a few years ago between Eucharis and the allied genus Urceolina, to which the

compound name Urceocharis was given .