Tas. 7488. 
CYRTANTHUS Horton. 
Native of the Cape Colony. 
Nat. Ord. AMaRYLLIDEZ.—Tribe AMARYLLEZ. 
Genus CrrtantTHvs, Ait.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 729.) 
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Cyrtantuvs Hutioni; bulbo globoso, tunicis exterioribus membranaceis brun- 
neis, foliis circiter 4 synanthiis ensiformibus glabris viridibus suberectis 
scapo brevioribus, scapo valido tereti elongato, umbellis 6-10-flris, 
spathes valvis 2 ovatis brunneis membranaceis, pedicellis elongatis, peri- 
anthio anguste infundibulari rubro intus luteo lobis ovatis tubo duplo 
brevioribus, staminibus prope faucem tubi insertis filamentis brevissimis, 
stylo elongato. 
C. Huttoni, Baker Handb. Amaryllid. p. 55. 
This recently introduced Cyrtanthus is much more robust 
than C. angustifolius (Bot. Mag., tab. 271), and its numer- 
ous allies, but is not nearly so large in its flowers as 0. 
obliquus. It was first flowered at Kew in May, 1864, from 
plants sent by Mr. J. Hutton from the south-eastern district 
of Cape Colony. A specimen was sent to Kew from Glas- 
nevin in 1884; and from the province of Somerset Kast, 
from Mr. James O’Brien in 1890. The plants now grown 
at Kew were raised from seeds received from the Hdin- 
burgh Botanic Garden in 1892. Like all the other species 
it requires the shelter of a cool frame in an English garden. 
The flowers are not scented. 
_ Deser.— Bulb globose, an inch or an inch and a half in 
diameter. Leaves about four to a bulb, contemporary 
with the flowers, ensiform, bright green, arcuate, glabrous, 
above a foot long, nearly an inch broad. Peduncle stout, 
terete, a foot and a half or two feet long. Flowers six to 
ten in an umbel ; spathe-valves two, ovate, brown, mem- 
branous; pedicels an inch or an inch and a half long. 
Perianth narrowly funnel-shaped, an inch and a half long, 
bright red outside, yellow within ; lobes ovate, half as long 
Aveust 1st, 1896. 
