Hy poxis.]} AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker). 177 
texture, obscurely denticulate; peduncles 1-5 to a corm, very 
slender, simple, erect, with a linear clasping bract below the middle; 
perianth-limb about } in, long; segments oblong-lanceolate, pale 
yellow inside, the three outer glabrous, and pale green with a tinge 
of red on the back; stamens half as long as the perianth-limb; 
anthers linear, basifixed; filaments very short; ovary clavate, 
glabrous, +-3 in. long ; stigmas distinct, lanceolate ; capsule clavate, 
3 in. long. Thunb. Prodr. 60; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 304; Jacg. Ic. 
t. 369; Bot, Mag. t. 709 (excl. var. 8); Roem. et Schultes, Syst. 
Veg. vii. 768; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 103. H. luzulefolia, 
Eckl. Top. Verz. 10, non DC. 
Coast Recron: Lion Mountain, Thunberg! near Hout Bay, 250 ft., Bolus, 
7195! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 1382! Ecklon and Zeyher, 649! 
Western Reaion: Little Namaqualand, Scully, 115! 
5. H. aquatica (Linn. fil. Suppl. 197); corm small, globose ; 
leaves 4-6, weak, flaccid, glabrous, subterete from a lanceolate 
sheathing base, channelled down the face, 1-1} ft. long; peduncle 
4-1 ft. long; flowers 4-6 in an umbel ; pedicels 1-3 in. long; bracts 
large, linear, foliaceous ; perianth-limb about } in. long, whitish inside, 
green outside ; segments oblong or oblong: lanceolate ; stamens half 
as long as the perianth-segments ; anthers linear, basifixed ; filaments 
very short, ovary clavate, glabrous, 4-3 in. long; stigmas distinct ; 
capsule 3-3 in. long. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 108; Roem. et Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. vii. 776; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 102. 
Soutn Arrtca: without locality, Oldenburg ! Drége, 8515a! 8515b! 
Coast Reeion; Clanwilliam Div., Zeyher! Mader, 172! near Cape Town, 
Thunberg ! Bolus, 2814! Cape Flats near Wynberg, MacOwan and Bolus, 
Herb. Norm,, 293! MacOwan, 2658. 
WestgEN ReEGIon: Little Namaqualand ; ment Klip Fontein, 3000 ft., Bolus, 
6583 ! and without precise locality, W/ 
6. H. Seullyi (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1889, 2) ; corm small, globose ; 
leaves linear, membranous, glabrous, }-1 ft. long, $-} in. broad ; 
flowers 1-3 to a peduncle; pedicels 2-3 in. long, bracteated at the 
base by reduced linear leaves ; perianth-segments yellow, } in. long, 
glabrous outside ; stamens more than half as long as the segments ; 
anthers 4 in. long ; ovary clavate, glabrous, } in. long. 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand, in moist places; near Ookiep, Bolus, 
6581! between Nababeep and Modder Fontein, Bolus, 6582! and without precise 
locality, Sewliy, 10! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 1381! 
7. H. stellata (Linn. fil. Suppl. 197); corm globose, annual, 3-3 
in, diam. ; tunics brown, coarsely cancellate ; leaves 4-12 to a corm, 
subterete from a clasping linear base, glabrous, moderately firm in 
texture, 4-15 in. long; peduncles 1-4, simple, rarely forked, with a 
lanceolate clasping bract below the middle; perianth-limb 3-1} in. 
long ; segments lanceolate, acute, plain white inside, the three outer 
green and glabrous on the back ; anthers linear, basifixed, } in. long; 
filaments very short; ovary clavate, glabrous, about 4 in. long; 
stigmas lanceolate, joined at the base ; capsule clavate, }~} in. long, 
