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Tas. 5314. 
HAMANTHUS CINNABARINUS. 
Cinnabar-coloured Hamanthus. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE®.—HExANDRIA MonoGynia. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium superum corollaceum, limbo 6-partito, regulari, deciduo ; 
tubo recto; laciniis angustis, 1-8-nerviis, equalibus, erectis vel stellato-paten- 
tibus. Stamina 6, summo tubo inserta, exserta, alterna (petalina ?) longiora. 
Filamenta filiformia. Anthere oblonge, utrinque bifida, dorso supra basin affixe. 
Ovarium inferum, triloculare; ovwZa in loculis solitaria vel gemina, collateralia, 
pendula (pauca e loculorum angulo centrali adscendentia vel pendula, Endi.), 
anatropa. Columna stylina filiformis, recta. Stigma simplex, obsolete trilobum 
vel trifidum. Bacca globosa vel oblonga, abortu 1-trilocularis. Semina in locu- 
lis solitaria, loculum replentia; testa membranacea, adnata; raphe immersa; 
hilum basilare, chalaze apicali discolori jungens. Zmbryo minimus, in basi albu- 
minis dense carnosi; extremitate radiculari hilum attingente.—Herbe, paucis 
Africanis tropicis exceptis, Capenses, bulbifere, scapigere, glabre vel pubescentes ; 
bulbo tunicato, sepius bifariam squamoso ; folia pauca, s@pius bina, coriacea, 
erassiuscula, plerumque plana orbiculata erecta vel humistrata, rarius angusta 
elongata canaliculata, rarissime petiolata, oblonga, petiolis vaginantibus. Scapus 
brevis, solidus, plerumque compressus, basi sepe bracteis duabus radicalibus inter- 
dum coloratis stipatus, multiflorus. Spatha utplurimum polyphylla ; foliolis erectis, 
coloratis, umbella longioribus, rarius diphylla vel refleca. Kth. ex Endl. 
Hamantuvs cinnabarinus ; foliis paucis omnibus inferioribus seu subradicalibus 
ovali-oblongis longitudinaliter multinerviis, costa crassa subtus prominente, 
limbo in petiolum subvaginantem decurrente, scapo cylindraceo umbellatim: 
multifloro, bractea communi florem involucrante et multiseriata, pedicellis 
singulis bracteola lineari stipatis primo erectis mox patulis aut etiam re- 
flexis, perianthii lobis subzequalibus oblongis, ut stamina filamenta rigida 
stylusque cinnabarinis. Dene. 
TLeMantuvus cinnébarinus. Desv. in Flore des Serres, 2nd Series, v. 2. p. 27. 
Drawn from bulbs sent by M. Gustav Mann to the Royal 
Gardens, from Ambas Bay, at the foot of the Cameroon moun- 
‘tains, in Western tropical America. There can be no question 
of the plant being identical with the Hemanthus cinnabarinus 
of Professor Decaisne, in the ‘Flore des Serres’ above quoted, 
who considers it a new species ; but, were it not for such high 
authority, we should have been disposed to have looked upon 
it as a remarkable state of Hemanthus multiforus.* But there 
* See Bot. Mag. vol. 24. t. 261, and vol. 45. t. 1995. 
may Ist, 1862. 
