Tas. 6875. 
HAIMANTHUS Bavrit. 
Native of Kaffraria. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLER. 
Genus Hamantuvs, Linn.; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 730.) 
HzmantTuvs (Diacles) Bawrii ; bulbo oblongo compresso tunicis crassis truncatis 
viridibus, foliis 2 patulis orbicularibus facie glabris margine ciliatis, pedunculo 
brevissimo occulto, umbello denso multifloro pedicellis brevissimis vel subnullis, 
bracteis exterioribus obovato-cuneatis membranaceis albidis imbricatis pubes- 
centibus floribus longioribus, perianthio albo tubo subcylindrico, segmentis 
oblanceolatis tubo longioribus, staminibus segmentis equilongis antheris parvis 
oblongis citrinis, stylo apice stigmatoso tricuspidato. 
This is one of those curious dwarf fleshy-leaved 
Hzmanthi which are one of the many strange botanical 
types characteristic of the interior sterile regions of Cape 
Colony. It has not yet been published or described, but 
we received dried specimens as long ago as 1874 from its 
discoverer, the Rev. R. Baur, a Moravian missionary, who 
during the last twenty years has added greatly to our 
knowledge of the botany of Kaffraria. He collected it at 
Shawbury, in Transkeian Kaffraria, at an elevation of 1500 
feet above sea-level, flowering in June. Now through 
Professor Macowan it has been introduced in a living 
state, and our drawing was made from a plant that 
flowered at Kew in November, 1885. It is allied to the 
well-known 4H. albiflos of Jacquin, to H. deformis, Hook. 
fil. in Bor. Mac. t. 5908, and to H. Arnottii, Baker in 
“Gard. Chron.” N. §. vol. x. p. 492. We have also a 
Specimen received from the late Mr. Wilson Saunders, 
F.R.S., in 1878. as 
Descr. Bulb oblong, compressed, three or four inches 
the long diameter; tunics thick, green, truncate. Pro- 
duced leaves two, contemporary with the flowers, fleshy, 
Spreading, suborbicular, about half a foot long, and seven 
_ or eight inches broad when fully developed, glabrous on 
the surface, persistently ciliated on the margin. Pedunele 
very short, compressed, glabrous, hidden by the base of 
May Ist, 1886. 
