Tan. 6778. 
HAIMAN THUS KatHeRIna. 
Native of Natal. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLEX. 
Genus Hamantuoes, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 730.) 
Wamantuvus (Nerissa) Katherine; glaberrima, foliis ad 5, vaginis in caulem 
cylindraceum convolutis, lamina membranacea elliptica acuta v. oblonga obtusa _ 
v. acuta nervis utrinque coste 9-10 nervulis transversis trabecul ita, seapo 
coztaneo laterali gracili elato, umbella ampla globosa densiflora, spathis 5-6 
1-2-pollicaribus lanceolatis acuminatis deciduis, perianthii coccinei tubo 14- 
pollicari limbi 2-poll. diametr. segmentis linearibus obtusis patentibus, stami- 
nibus 1}-pollicaribus. 
H. Katherinz, Baker in Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. vii. (1877), p. 656. 
In Mr. Baker’s notes on the allies of Hwemanthus multi- 
florus, Martyn (see this work, plates 961 and 1995), published 
in the “ Gardeners’ Chronicle,” this grand species is first 
described, and stated to be closely allied to the above- 
named plant, differing in the nervation of the leaf and 
proportion in length of the tube to the limb of the corolla, 
to which might be added that the spathes of H. multijlorus 
are few, large, green and herbaceous. Both belong to the 
section Nerissa, of which Salisbury constituted the genus 
of that name, confining it, however, to N. multijlorus, for 
he would not have included in it (as Mr. Baker does) two 
species with the scape rising from amongst the leaves, viz. 
H. cinnabarinus (Plate 5314) and H- rotularis, Baker. 
Indeed, in the ‘‘ Genera Plantarum,” Mr. Bentham and I 
have suggested that the genus Mwmanthus, of which there 
are thirty known species, all tropical and Southern African, 
should be divided into those with terminal scapes and those 
with lateral. : : 
H. Katherine was introduced by Mr. Keit when Superin- 
tendent of the Botanical Gardens at Natal, but dried 
specimens had been collected and sent to Kew by Mr. 
Saunderson, who requested that it might bear the name 
of his wife. .For the plant here figured the Royal Gardens 
OCTOBER Ist, 1884. 
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