382 

 H^MANTHUS pubescens. 



Hairy Hcemanthus* 



HEXANDRIA MONOOYNIA. 



Nat. orcl. Narcissi. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. II. Germen inferum, 



Amarylmdm. Brown prod. 296. Sect, I. JUdi'x bulbo**. 

 Flores spatliacei, umbellati, raro solitarii. 



HMMANTHVS. Supra vol. S.Jid. 181. 



H. pubescens^ foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, undique hirsutis, umbella fastigiato- 

 rotundata, h'mbo stamim'busque erectis. Hort. Kew. 1 . 404. 



Hasmanthus pubescens. Lin. suppl. 193. Thunb. prod. 59. IVilld.tp.pl. 

 2. 26. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 2. 208. Nobis in Curtis' s magaz.fol. 1523 in 



not&. 



Heemanthus albiflos. Jacq. hort. schcenb. 1. SI. t. 59. Willd. sp.pl. 2. 27. 



Nobis in Curtis' s magaz. 1239. Redoule liliac. 338. Hort. Kew. ed. % 

 2. 208. 



Folia erectius opposita, subquaterna, oblonga, hirsutius villosa, cilia t a, in* 



tense virentia, subbreviora scapo, subsetnipedalia latitudine subbiunciali, Jlorum 



contemporanea. Scapus tereti-compressus, hirsutus, obliquus. Spatba ince- 



quivalvis, umbella subarqualis, albido-membranacea, viridi-venosa, pubescens. 



Flores multi, conferti, albi, brevissitne pedicellati, erecti. Cor. infundibuiu 



Jbrmis, angusta; limbt laciniae erectce, lineares, triplo longiores tubo. Fila- 



menta corollam una iertia parte Jere exsnperantia : anth. Julvo-Jlavicantet t 



ovato-rotunda?. Stylus subcrassior subaltiorque slaminibus, erectus; stigma 



levissime trifidum, patulum. Bacca magnitudinejere pisi, subrotunda t S4oc. t 



miniata, nitida; loculamentis monospermis. 



Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Introduced by the 

 late Mr. Francis Masson in 1774. Requires to be kept in 

 the greenhouse. Of easy culture. 



The separation of pubescens and albiflos is clearly un- 

 founded, as we have proved by the prototype specimen of 

 the former in the Banksian Herbarium. 



The drawing was taken from an imported plant which 

 flowered at Mr. Lee's nursery, Hammersmith. J 



Leaves opposite, inclining to upright, about 4, oblong, 

 rather shaggily furred, fringed at the edge, deep green, 

 somewhat shorter than the scape, about half a foot in length, 

 with the breadth of about two inches, full grown at the 

 time the plant is in flower. Scape compressed, shaggily 

 furred, slanting. Spathe unequally valved, about even with 

 the umbel, whitishly membranous, green-veined, furred. 



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