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Brunsvigia. | AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker). 207 
as thick as a man’s finger; flowers 20-30 in an umbel ; pedicels 
stout, strongly ribbed, 4-6 in. long; spathe-valves deltoid, much 
shorter than the pedicels; perianth bright red, decurved, 2—22 in. 
long, with a campanulate tube 3 in. long, and lanceolate segments ; 
stamens about as long as the perianth; anthers oblong, 4 in. long; 
ovary turbinate, $ in. long in the flowering stage; style finally 
exceeding the stamens ; capsule turbinate, acutely triquetrous, 2~3 in. 
long, 1-1} in. diam. Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 98. B. multiflora, 
Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 230; Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1619; Herb. 
Amaryllid. 280, t. 36, jig. 1; Kunth, Enum. v. 606. Amaryllis 
ortentalis, Linn. Sp. Plant. 422; Jucg. Hort. Schoenbr, i. 38, t. 74. 
Hemanthus orientalis, Thunb. Prodr. 59; Fl. Oap. edit. Schult. 
298. B. orientalis, Eckl.. Top. Verz.7. Coburgia multiflora, Herb. 
in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2213. B. rubricaulis, Roem. Amaryllid. 57. 
Coast Rea@ron: Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Thunberg ! Cape Div.; sand- 
dunes near Constantia and Zeekoe Vallei, Thunberg! at the foot of Muizenberg, 
eee, Kalk Bay, 100 ft., Bolus, 4526! Caledon Div. ; near Genadendal, Burchell, 
Centra Recion: Colesberg, Shaw! 
I have not seen B. albiflora, Eckl. Top. Verz.'7 (name only), founded on an 
unlocalized specimen gathered by Brehm about 1795. 
6. B. Cooperi (Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 330); bulb ovoid, 
3-4 in. diam. ; tunics pale brown, membranous ; leaves 4-6, lingulate, 
spreading almost horizontally, 33-4 in. broad, 9-12 in. long, thick 
in texture, closely veined, minutely granulated, the margin thickened 
and scabrous; peduncle terete, an inch thick, 1} ft. long ; flowers 
12-16 in an umbel, bright red; pedicels 3-6 in. long; spathe-valves 
ovate, 8 in. long; perianth 2-23 in. long, with a very short tube 
and oblong-lanceolate segments 4—} in. broad at the middle ; stamens 
as long as the perianth-segments ; anthers linear-oblong, } in. long ; 
ovary turbinate, 3 in, long; style finally a little exserted ; capsule 
turbinate, acutely angled, 14-2 in. long. Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 
98. 
Cenrrat Recion: Graaff Reinet Div.?; plain on the northern side of the 
Sneeuw Berg Range, 4500 ft., Bolus, 1816! Aliwal North Div.; Witte Bergen, 
5000-6000 ft., Draye, 3518! 
Katanari Recion: Orange Free State, Cooper, 881! 
7. B. spherocarpa (Baker); leaves lingulate, obtuse, smooth, 
glabrous, a foot long, 3 in. broad at the middle; margin entire ; 
pedicels 8-9 in. long; perianth bright red, 23-2} in, long, with a 
short tube and lanceolate segments ¢ in. broad ; stamens as long as 
the perianth-segments; anthers oblong, % in. long ; ovary subglobose, 
3-? in, diam., not at all acutely angled. 
Eastern Recion: Griqualand East, alt. 6000 ft., Tyson, 1268! 
Very near B, Cooperi, : 
8. B. striata (Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii, 231); bulb ovoid, the 
size of a walnut; leaves 3—6, produced after the flowers, oblong or 
