Hypowis.} AMARYLLIDEX (Baker). 185 
peduncles slender, hairy, much shorter than the leaves; flowers few 
or several, racemed; lowest pedicels + in. long; bracts linear ; 
perianth-limb 3-3 in. long; segments oblong, yellow, outer densely 
hairy on the back ; anthers lanceolate, deeply sagittate, 3 in. long ; 
filaments shorter ; ovary turbinate, densely bristly, } in. long ; stigmas 
concrete ; capsule turbinate, densely hairy, circumscissile round the 
middle. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 766; Baker in Trans. 
Linn, Soc. xxix. 156; Journ. Linn. Soe. xvii. 114. 
KatAHARi ReGIon: Orange Free State, Mrs. Barber, 685! Bechuanaland ; 
Pellat Plains, near Takun, Burchell! Transvaal; Saddleback Range, near 
Barberton, 3200-4500 ft., Galpin, 412! 
EasTERN Reaion: Natal; Drakensberg, Bolus, 2572! 
Also mountains of Equatorial Africa. 
29. H. latifolia (Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 4817); corm globose, 
23-3 in, diam., crowned with bristles; leaves 6-8, lanceolate, rigidly 
coriaceous, strongly ribbed, entirely glabrous, finally 14-2 ft. long, 
3-2 in. broad at the middle; peduncles slender, hairy, 3—4 in. long; _ 
raceme 10-12-flowered, 1-2 in. long; lower pedicels } in. long. ; 
bracts linear; perianth-limb 3 in. long; segments oblong, yellow, the 
outer greenish and hairy on the back ; anthers lanceolate, } in. long ; 
filament much shorter; ovary turbinate, hairy, } in. long ; stigmas 
concrete. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 115. 
Eastern Reeron: Natal, Garden, ddlam! Described from plants cultivated 
at Kew in 1854 and 1887. 
30. H. longifolia (Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6035); corm oblong, 
14-2 in. diam.; leaves 8-9, subterete, rigidly coriaceous, deeply 
channelled down the face, 1-1} ft. long, 3-4 in. broad, shortly hairy 
mainly on the margins and keel beneath; peduncles 2-3, densely 
pilose, 6-9 in. long; flowers 2—4, corymbose ; pedicels }—1 in. long, 
densely pilose; bracts linear-setaceous ; perianth-limb }~ in. long ; 
segments oblong-lanceolate, yellow, the outer densely pilose on the 
back; anthers lanceolate-sagittate, slightly versatile, 4 in. long; 
ovary turbinate, densely pilose, 4-} in. long; stigmas concrete ; 
capsule turbinate, densely pilose, } in. long. Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xvii. 115, 
Soutu Arnica: without locality, Thunberg ! 
- Bh ees ReGion: Humansdorp Div,; Clarkson, Kiiching ! Queenstown, Cooper, 
Karanart Region; Orange Free State; Vet River, Burke! 
31. H, Ludwigii (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1876, 181) ; corm oblong, 
1-13 in. diam.; leaves 8-9, linear, subcoriaceous, with thickened 
ribs, 1-13 ft. long, }-4 in, broad, shortly bristly mainly on the 
margins and keel beneath ; peduncle 9-12 in. long, weak, loosely 
hairy ; flowers 4-12, corymbose ; lower pedicels 1-1} in. long; bracts 
linear; perianth-limb in. long; segments oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, yellow, the outer densely hairy outside; anthers 
lanceolate-sagittate, 4 in. long; filaments much shorter; ovary 
