Tas. 7072. 
ANOIGANTHUS BREVIFLORUS. 
Native of Cape Colony and Natal. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDE®.—Tribe eeietciek: 
Genus Anorcantuus, Baker ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 722.) 
Anoreantuus brevifiorus ; bulbo ovoideo tunicis brunneis membranaceis supra 
collum productis, foliis synanthiis anguste loratis, viridibus erectis 
glabris, pedunculo tereti, umbellis 2-10-floris pedicellis elongatis, spathe 
valvis binis lanceolatis magnis, perianthio luteo, tubo brevi infundibulari 
segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis ascendentibus tubo 3-4-plo longioribus, 
staminibus distincte biseriatis filamentis brevibus, fructu oblongo. 
A. breviflorus, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, p.76; Handb. Amaryll. p. 27. 
Cyrtanthus breviflorus, Harv. Thes. Cap. vol. ii. p. 25, t. 139, 
This is a very acceptable addition to our stock of culti- 
vated Cape bulbs. It appears to have been first gathered 
by Krauss in Natal about 1840, and has since been found 
to be spread through all the eastern regions of Cape Colony, 
ascending the mountains to five thousand or six thousand 
feet. It was first described and figured by Dr. Harvey in 
1863. He placed it in the genus Cyrtanthus, but it differs 
widely from the true Cyrtanthi, both in its perianth and 
stamens. Our plants grown at Kew were received from 
Mr. J. M. Wood, of the Natal Botanic Garden, and from 
Mr. R. W. Adlam. With us it grows and flowers freely 
in an open border where it is protected from frost, and | 
has matured a good supply of seed. Our drawing was 
made from a plant that flowered at Kew last July. I 
formerly thought that there were two species, but now 
regard them as extreme forms of one. 
Descr. Bulb ovoid; outer tunics membranous, brown, 
produced for some distance above its neck. Leaves three 
or four to a bulb, contemporary with the flowers, narrow 
lorate, obtuse, a foot or a foot and a half long, half or 
three-quarters of an inch broad, green, glabrous, channelled 
down the face. Peduncle subterete, half a foot or a foot 
long. lowers from two to ten in an umbel; pedicels one 
Aveust Ist, 1889. 
