184 AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker). [Hy powis. 
Sourn AFRIcaA: without locality, MacOwan, 72! in Dublin Herbarium, 
Flowered at Kew in Sept., 1873, 
27. H. villosa (Linn. fil. Suppl. 198); corm oblong, 1-1} in. diam., 
crowned with a dense ring of bristles; leaves a dozen or more, 
lanceolate, acuminate, moderately firm in texture, 4—6 in. long, about 
4 in. broad, more or less densely clothed with appressed hairs ; 
peduncles 1-4, slender, finely pilose, 2-3 in. long; flowers 2-5, 
corymbose ; pedicels 4-1 in. long; bracts small, setaceous ; perianth- 
limb 3-4 in. long ; segments oblong or oblong-lanceolate, yellow, the 
outer densely hairy on the back ; stamens half as long as the perianth- 
limb; filament about as long as the lanceolate-sagittate anther; ovary 
turbinate, densely hairy, } in. long; stigmas concrete; capsule 
turbinate, densely hairy, } in. long. Thunb. Prodr. 60; Fl. Cap. 
edit. Schult. 305; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 765; Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 118, non Jacq. Fabricia villosa, Thunb. in 
Fabric. Reise Norw. 31. H. tomentosa, Lam. Encyc. iii. 182. H. 
sobolifera, Jacq, Collect. Suppl. 53; Ic. t. 372; Red, Lal. t. 170; 
Bot. Mag. t.711; Fisch, et Mey. Ind. Sem. Petrop. x. 51. 
Var. 8, H, scabra (Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 970); leaves thinner in texture, 
scarcely at all hairy except on the margin. 
Var. 7, H. obliqua (Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 54; Ic. t. 371); more robust, with 
leaves clothed with deuse, short, pale, bristly hairs principally on the margin and 
keel beneath ; peduncle longer, densely clothed with short, stellate, bristly hairs. 
Roem. et Sehultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 766, non Andrews. 
Vag. 3, H. canescens (Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. Petrop. x. 50); more robust 
than the type, with larger leaves, sometimes an inch broad, densely clothed with 
short, soft, often brown, stellate hairs; pedicels longer; perianth-limb longer. 
Walp. Rep. i. 847. 
Vag. ¢, H. pannosa (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1874, ii. 180); a large robust form 
with fluccid leaves xbove a foot long and an inch broad, densely clothed on both 
surfaces with long, appressed, fine, soft hairs, H. microsperma, Lallem, in Fisch. 
and Mey. Ind, Sem, Petrop. x. 50. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Var. e, cultivated at Kew in 1874. 
Coast Rea@ion: Swellendam Div., Thunberg! Mossel Bay Div.; between 
Duyker River and Gauritz River, Burchell, 6401! Uitenhage Div. ; Zwartkops 
River, Zeyher, 4138! between Van Stadens Berg and Bethelsdorp, Drége, 2192! 
Algoa Bay, Cooper, 3237! Var. 8, Mossel Bay, near the Landing-place, Burchell, 
6307! Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens Berg, Burchell, 4745! Albany Div.; 
Blaauw Krans, Burchell, 3632! Var. 8, Alexandria Div.; Zwartwater Poort, 
oar 3380-2! Albany Div.; Grahamstown, Burchell, 3542! MacOwan, 
CENTRAL Reaion: near Somerset East, 2500 ft., MacOwan, 1593! Var. B, 
Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 4500 ft., MacOwan, 1898! Var. y, Bosch Berg, 
4500 ft., MacOwan, 1594a! 1594b! ; 
EastekN Reaion: Var. 8, Tembuland, Bazeia Mountains, 2000 ft., Baxr, 
74! Var. 3,Natal; Inanda, Wood, 184! Var. e, Natal; slopes of the Drakens- 
berg, Wood, 34341 
28. H. obtusa (Burch. in Bot. Reg. t. 159); corm globose, 13-2 in. 
diam., densely bristly at the crown ; leaves 8-12, linear or lanceolate, 
acuminate, firm in texture, strongly ribbed, hairy, especially on the 
margins and keel beneath, finally a foot or site ee, 3—$ in. broad ; 
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