Hypoxis.} AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker). 181 
Eastern Recion: Tembuland; near Bazeia, 2000-2500 ft., Baur, 3471 Var, 
8, Natal; Inanda, Wood, 426! 771! aud without precise locality, Buchunan ! 
Also found in Tropical Africa, Madaguscar, and Mauritius, 
16. H. floccosa (Baker in Kow Bullet. 1894, 357) ; corm small, 
oblong ; radical leaves 5-6, linear, not rigid, 2-3 in. long, #4, in. 
broad at the middle, densely clothed with short, soft, spreading 
hairs ; peduncle very slender, shorter than leaves; flowers 1-2; 
bracts linear; pedicels very hairy, 3-% in. long ; perianth yellow, 
% in. long; segments oblong-lanceolate, the outer very hairy out- 
5 3 stamens much shorter than the perianth; ovary hairy, 
clavate, 
Coast Recion : hills near Swellendam, 500 ft., Bolus, 7469. 
17. H. Zeyheri (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii, 112); corm 
oblong, $1 in. diam., crowned with a ring of bristles; neck elon- 
gated ; tunics membranous; leaves 6-10, linear, glabrous, moderately 
firm in texture, 4-6 in. long, 3-3 in. broad ; peduneles 1-2, slender, 
flexuose, hairy upwards ; flowers 2-3, corymbose ; pedicels 3-1 in. 
long; bracts setaceous; perianth-limb 4-3 in. long; segments 
oblong-lanceolate, yellow, the three outer hairy outside ; stamens 
half as long as the perianth-limb ; anthers lanceolate, deeply sagit- 
tate, } in. long; ovary turbinate, 4 in. long, densely hairy ; stigmas 
concrete ; capsule } in. long. 
Coast Rraion: Albany, Williamson! Uitenhage? Ecklon and Zeyher, TV 
18. H. Gerrardi (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii, 110); corm 
oblong, 4-3 in. diam., with a long neck and brown membranous 
tunics; leaves 6-10, linear, rigid in texture, strongly ribbed, 6-15 
in. long, 4-} in. broad, acuminate, shortly and softly pilose all over ; 
peduncles 2—4, slender, hairy, 2-6 in. long; flowers 2—4, corymbose ; 
pedicels densely hairy, }~1 in. long; bracts small, linear or subulate ; 
perianth-limb $3 in. long; segments oblong-lanceolate, yellow, 
the outer densely pilose all over the back; stamens more than hulf 
as long as the perianth-limb; anthers lanceolate, $ in. long; ovary 
clavate-turbinate, densely pilose, 4 in. long; stigmas concrete ; 
capsule turbinate, densely pilose, j-} in. long. 
Eastern Recton: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 327! and witho precise locality, 
Gerrard! Buchanan! 
19. H. argentea (Harv. ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xvii- 
110); corm ovoid, 3-3 in. diam., with a long neck, and crowned 
with a dense ring of bristles; leaves 6-12, linear-subulate, firm in 
texture, faleate, acuminate, 4-6 in. long, ?; in. broad at the base, 
densely persistently silky all over both surfaces; peduncles 1-2, 
slender, densely silky; flowers often 2, corymbose ; pedicels 3-1 
in. long; bracts setaceous; perianth-limb ~ in. long; segments 
oblong-lanceolate, the outer densely silky on the back ; stamens 
half as long as the perianth-limb; anthers lanceolate, deeply 
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