Hasrantuus Ancustus. Narrow 
HaBRANTHUS. | 3 
SEPSIS aakabok 
Class and Order. 
Hexanpria Monoeynia. 
2, Generic Character. 
Vide supra No. 2597. 
Specific Character. 
Hasrantuvs angustus, bulbo nigro; foliis angustis obtusis; 
scapo 2-floro viridi, infra rubescente, precoce ; spatha 
carneé, 2%-unciali, uno latere fissi; pedunculis 13- 
uncialibus, rubescentibus; germine purpurascente 1- 
unciali ; laciniis saturaté roseis uncialibus, vix 3-un- 
cie latis, exterioribus apiculatis, interioribus obtusis ; 
tubo brevi, viridi, membrana clauso ; stylo stigmate 
et filamentis saturaté roseis fundo albescente; antheris 
et polline luteis; stylo filamentis longiore, limbo bre- 
viore. W. H. es 
This species of Hanrantuus was imported from Buenos 
Ayres. It comes near to H. bifidus, from which it is dis- 
tinguished by the narrowness of the leaves and petals, the 
colour of the filaments, germ, peduncle, and corolla, by a 
two-flowered less robust and redder scape, and more espe- 
cially by a flesh-coloured one-leaved spathe, split on one 
side nearly to the bottom. It flowered at Spofforth, in 
September. H. versicolor produces every autumn, at 
Spofforth, a, solitary, gracilifolius a two-flowered scape, 
- succeeded by a second scape, which is sometimes one- 
flowered. H. bifidus has flowered at Spofforth, as well as 
at Highclere, producing a four-flowered scape as in the 
native specimens. The flowers of H. bifidus though pro- - 
duced successively, continue for a time in perfection to-. 
gether, the later pair having shorter peduncles. The sone : 
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