ready noticed. To this mass is generally added th(» express 

 ed juice of the bulb of H«!manthus (Brunsvigia) toxicariusy 

 an alkali supposed to add most powerfully to the activity of 

 the poison, and known in the colony by the Dutch name 

 of Bolletje's Gift (bulb-poison.)" 



The bloom of this species, which is of a dull pink, dif- 

 fuses a grateful fragrance, not unlike that of new-made hay. 

 The umbel which at first is hemispherical and close, by the 

 time the fruit is ripened, has become loose and completely 

 globular, having lengthened the footstalks to twice or thrice 

 the length they were at when in flower. The stem, as is 

 usual in the genus, is dwarf in proportion to the rest of the 

 plant. 



Bvlb tunicate, ovately oblong, coated by a thick rind 

 formed by innumerable thin fibrously membranous integu- 

 ments (the probable accumulation of ages) of the thickness 

 of a man*s arm or more, and deeper than the stem is high. 

 Xeove;? several or many, bifarious, uprightly spreading, lo- 

 rately elongated, lanceolate and taper-pointed, glaucous, 

 oblique, coming after the flowers. Scape robust, hardly 

 longer fehan the umbel, roundedly compressed and flatter on 

 one side, pale and glaucous. Spathe 2-valved, even with 

 the footstalks, valves ovately oblong, tapei^pointed, reflex- 

 ed; footstalks filiform, 3-cornered, rather thicker than the 

 tube of a sparrow-quill, green, shining, clavately continuous 

 with the germen, Jfowerbearing about 2 inches or little 

 more in length, fruit bearing from 4 to 6 inches long. Um- 

 bel numerously flowered : corolla about 1 i inch in diameter, 

 revolutely funnelform, regular; tube stiff, straight, thick, 

 greenish white, about the length of the germen, more than 

 twice shorter than the limb; limb 6-parted, turbinate and 

 revolute, segments standing starwisely apart, narrowly li- 

 gulate, even in length, pointed, 3 outer ones rather the nar- 

 rowest, convolutely channelled, with a barbedly-hooked 

 point slightly downy at the base, inner ones flatter and ob- 

 soletely mucronate. Stamens protruding, even, uprightly 

 spreading, slightly cui*ved;^/flmc7?/A* white, subulately fili- 

 form, prominently decurrent along the tube: anthers ba- 

 lanced and traversing, narrowly and elongatedly oblong, 

 at first pink, afterwards of purplish black ; pollen cream- 

 coloured. Sti/le even with the stamens, 1^; inch long, } 

 longer than the corolla, from upright inclining, slender, fili- 



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