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H^MANTHUS MlJLTlFLORUS. MaNT- 



Flowered Blood-Flower. 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Hexandria Monogynia. 



Generic CharaHer. 



Involucrum polyphyllum, multiflorum. Cor. 6-partita fupera. 

 Bacca 3-locularis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



HiEMANTHUS multiflorus 1 foliis tribus ovato-fanceolatis 



acuminatis carinatis undulatis ere&is, urn- 



bella congefta globofa, petalis patentibus. 



Martyn & Nodder, Monog. Jc. opt. Willd. 



Sp. PL 2. p. 25. Bot. Repof. 318. Mart. 



Mill. Did. a. 8. 

 SATYRIUM e Guinea. Vallet Hort. t. 33. Be Bry FloriL 



t. 44. Swert. F/oril. 1. p. 63. / 3. Morif. 



Hijl. 3. p. 491. § 12. /. 12. /. XI. Rudb. 



Ely/. 2. p. 110. f. 3. 

 HYACINTHO affinis africana, caule maculato. Seb. MuJ. 1. 



p. 20. /. 12. /. 1, 2, 3. 



From the firft eftablifhment of a colony at Sierra-Leone, 

 the bulbs of this beautiful flower have frequently been imported 

 from thence, and is rather common in our floves. 



The fpathe generally divides into three parts and is patent or 

 reflected, not erect, as in H^emanthus coccineus, from which 

 fpecies it differs alfo in radication and foliation, the fibres 

 growing from the fummit of the bulb and the leaves, embracing 



one 



