Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. | 
HAMANTHUS coccineus ; foliis poft anthefin-prodeuntibus, 
geminis, late linguiformi-loratis, planiffimis, 
coriaceo-craffis,humi recumbentibus ; fpathe 
valvulis coloratis, lamellaformibus, rotun- 
dato-obtufis, umbellam coar@atam brevi- 
orem campanulatim obvolventibus ; corolla 
infundibuliformi; ftigmate fimplici. G. 
HASMANTHUS coccineus. Linn. Sp. Pl. 412. Mill. Did 
ed. 7.1.1. Thunb. Prod. Fl, Cap. 59. Horte 
Kew. 1. 403. Mart. Mill. Di&. Liliac. 4 
Redoute, tab. 39. Willd. Sp. Pl. 2. 24- 
HAMANTHUS afritanus. Tournef. Inft.657.tab.433- Comm, 
Hort. Amft. 2. p. 127. tab. 64. 
NARCISSUS bifolius. Prom. B. fpei. Robin. Ic. 243. 
NARCISSUS indicus gemino latiore folio. Rudb, Elyf. 2. t 
49. f.8. 
NARCISSUS fodiens ferpentarius, Hern. mex. 885. t. 899. 
LILIUM indicum puniceum gemino latiore folio, &c. Ke. 
Mor. Hift. tom. 1. fe. 4. t. 21. fi 16. Do 
dc 48 4t6:—= } 
BULBOSA africana anomala Moly affinis. Rai Hit. 1127. 
cap. 8. 
es 5 aaa 
_ A native of the Cape of Good Hope; cultivated by P. — 
Mictsr, in 1731; by the Dutch Gardeners probably near 4 
_ century before. Is now common in our greenhoufes, where 
it flowers towards the end of fummer. Seems to have attrafted 
the attention of moft of the elder Botanifts, by whom it has been 
repeatedly defcribed and figured, Is perfe€tly fcentlefs. G. 
ERRATA. 
* No. 1072, pag. alt, 1. 14. poft * fpicata” infere ** ‘Nobis in Ann. of Bote 
at, 228, et fupra No. 553. p. alt, Ixia fifulfa,” &c. 
‘No, 1073, pag. alt, 1, 14, for * two” read * double,” 
