Tab. 6364. 

 HiEMANTHUS Mannii. 



Native of Guinea. 



Nat. Ord. Amauyllidace*:.— Tribe Hjemantue^e. 

 Genus H^emanthus, Linn. ; (Kunth, 1'Jnum. vol. v. p. 586). 



HmANTHUS (Nerissa) Mannii; caule foliifero specialx post ^™XSS' 



scapo subpedali maculate, umbellis 30-40-flons, brae ; teis iMd« reflets 

 noribusbrevioribus, pedicellis flore 2-3-plo brevionbus, pe^ntlui^ scsqui 

 pollicaris tubo segmentis paulo brevionbus, stamimbus breviter exsertis. 



Of this section Nerissa of the genus Ilwmanthus which is 

 characterised by its narrow reflexing bracts, large thin leaves, 

 lax inflorescence and spreading perianth-segments, the number 

 of known species has increased rapidly during the last tew 

 years. Its type is the old well-known H. ^W°™°{ **» 

 Leone. At the date of the publication of the fifth volume 

 of Kunth's Enumerate (1850), only three species were 

 known, and now the number has been increased to ten, ail 01 

 them tropical or subtropical. The present plant closely 

 resembles H. cmnabarinus of Decaisne (Bot. Mag- tab. 

 5314) in the separate flowers and whole inflow cence 

 but in that species the leaves are produced *P™ J™« 

 petioles from the base of the flowering stem whilst 

 in our present plant the leaves as in H. "££"£ 

 grow upon a special stem, which » f^ ****^ 

 scape, and do not arrive at maturity nntal after the flow r 

 are faded. It was gathered in April, lJ«.X*Mrf 

 banks of the Bagroo river, but was not Reduced into cul- 

 tivation until last year, when it was sent to Mr. BnUj ,from 

 Liberia, by his collector Mr. Carder ^ &™*£" 

 from a specimen presented by Mr. Bull, which flowered at 

 Kew this present Spring. Ao«W 



Descu. RooMocL large globose conn ^"-Vjjg 

 cylindrical root-fibres. Leaves produced upon a sepaiatc 



jcne 1st. l>iy. 



