fenuiflorus, which again he himself figures as in full flower 
with the leaves not yet developed. | 
Hemanthus tenuiflorus appears to have a very wide range 
in latitude; we possess specimens from various localities, from 
Delagoa Bay to the White Nile; it differs from the W. African 
H. multiforus (Tab. Nost. 961 and 1995), in the less dense 
head of flowers ; and in their appearing before the leaves. 
Descr. Bulb ovoid, coated with brown scales. Leaves 
three to five, autumnal, four to five inches long, elliptic, with 
long tubular sheathing bases, which together form an erect 
cylindric stem two to four inches high, and as thick as 
the little finger, green, spotted purple at the base. Scape 
vernal, erect, green, compressed, four inches long, half an inch 
in diameter. Spates one inch to one and a half long, 
linear-oblong, spreading, subacute, pale-green and purplish. 
Flowers very numerous but not very dense, in a depressed 
subspherical head; peduncles one to one and a half inch 
long, pale. Ovary small, green. Perianth scarlet; tube 
one-quarter of an inch long ; lobes two-thirds of an inch long, 
very slender, spreading, with upturned hooded points. F/a- 
ments scarlet; as long as the perianth-segment; anthers 
small, yellow. Style scarlet.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, pistil; 3, transverse section of ovary :—all magnified. 
