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Hypowis.| AMARYLLIDE® (Baker). 189 
VaR. 8, Forbesii (Baker, loc. cit.) ; dwarfer, with leaves hairy only on the 
edge and keel beneath and a shorter perianth. 
Coast Recion: Albany Div.; near Bushman River, below 1000 ft., Drége, 
8529! Stockenstrom, Scully, 117! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 154! 3240! 
KALAwARI ReGion: Transvaal; Potchefstrom district, Mooi River, Nelson, 
302! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5810! plains around Barberton, 1800-2600 ft., 
Galpin, 1190! and without precise locality, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 5801! 
Eastern ReoGion: Griqualand East; mountains around Kokstad, 4300 ft., 
MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 1210! Natal; Mooi River Valley, 2000- 
3000 ft., Sutherland! Inanda, Wood, 373! and without precise locality, 
Buchanan ! Gerrard, 1828! Var. 8, Delagoa Bay, Forbes ! 
IVY. HESSEA, Herb. 
Perianth cut down nearly or quite to the ovary; segments sub- 
equal, patent, obtuse, 3-nerved in the middle. Stamens inserted at the 
base of the perianth-segments ; filaments filiform or flattened towards 
the base ; anthers small, globose, basifixed. Ovary globose, 3-celled ; 
ovules few in a cell, superposed ; style subulate or strumose towards 
the base, tricuspidate at the stigmatose apex. Capsule globose, 
membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds 1-3 in a cell, globose, 
greenish. 
Rootstock a bulb with membranous tunics; leaves generally produced after 
the flowers, filiform, linear or lorate; flowers few or many in an umbel, small, 
reddish-purple ; pedicels elongated ; spathe-valves 2, linear or lanceolate. 
Distkis, Hndemic. : 
Subgenus Hussga ProPEe. Style not dilated at the base. 
Stamens much shorter than the oblong perianth-seg- 
ments: 
Style very slender, not swollen si .. (1) stellaris. 
Style stout, rather swollen ,., Dat ee «» (2) crispa. 
Stamens nearly or quite as long as the oblong-lanceo- 
late perianth-segments : 
Perianth cut down to the ovary: 
Leaves lorate... a Gas ... (8) dregeana, 
Leaves filiform ... Gas, Me 
isi ae (4) Rehmanni. 
Perianth with a short tube above the ovary : 
Perianth 4-} in. long... a als w+ (5) Zeyheri. 
Perianth } in, long sy ae oo ». (6) brachyscypha. 
Subgenus Imumorra. Style swollen at the base. 
Leaves filiform, Style-base much swollen : 
Peduncle straight ... os ses see + (7) Silifolia. 
Peduncle spiral ai ek ae gi .. (8) spiralis. 
Leaves lorate, Style-base slightly swollen pee +. (9) gemmata. 
1. H. stellaris (Herb. Amaryll. 289); bulb subglobose, $-1 in. 
diam., with a long neck and brown or pale membranous tunics ; 
leaves 2, produced after the scape, lorate, glabrous, 6-12 in. long; 
scape lateral, 3-9 in. long, stout, for the genus; flowers 6-30; 
pedicels 1-2 in. long; spathe-valves lanceolate, green; perianth- 
segments oblong, crisped, purplish-red, j-3 in. long; stamens half 
as long as the perianth-segments; ovary globose, 4-4 in. diam. ; 
style slender, not swollen, subulate, not dilated at the base. Kunth, 
Enum. vy. 630; Baker, Handb. Amaryll. 21. Amaryllis stellaris, 
