282 AMARYELLIDEZ (Baker). [Hemanthus. 
Sovrn Arrica: without locality, Auge! 
Coast Reaion: Humansdorp Div.; Kromme River, Thunberg! Port Eliza- 
beth Div.; between Drostdy Farm and the Leadmine, near Glassen Point, 
Burchell, 4472! and Cragga Kamma, Zeyher, 573! 5 
CENTEAL Reeion: Somerset Div.; Bruintjes Hoogte, Burchel/, 3019! 3072! 
and Bosch Berg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1890! 
Eastzrw Reeion: Tembuland; Bazeia, in forests, 2000-2500 ft., Bawr, 729! 
Var. 6, Natal; Umymyati, Wood, 1219! and without precise locality, Peddie! 
Gerrard, 735! Cooper, 3230! 
Introduced into cultivation before the end of the seventeenth century. 
3. H. natalensis (Pappe ex Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 5378) ; bulb 
globose, oblique, 2-3 in. diam. ; scale-laaves about 4, round-ovate, 
pale green, much dotted and tipped with red-brown; leafy stem 
produced, about a foot long; leaves 8-9, oblong, membranous, bright 
green, not petioled, but narrowed to a clasping base, above a foot long, 
4-5. in. broad, the outer tipped and spotted on the back with 
red-brown ; peduncle produced from the axis of one of the scale- 
leaves, distinct from the leafy stem, compressed, sulcate, about a foot 
long, #-1 in. thick; umbel very dense, globose, capitate, 3-4 in. 
diam.; pedicels 1-14 in. long; braets about 6, oblong, bright red, imbri- 
cated, permanently ascendirg, 13-2 in. long; perianth greenish, | in. 
long ; tube cylindrical, ? in. long ; segments linear, ? in. long; fila- 
ments yellowish, above an inch long; anthers minute, oblong ; ovary 
globose, 4 in. diam; style overtopping the anthers ; berry subglobose, 
red, usually l-seeded, $ in. diam. Baker, Handb. Amaryllid, 66. 
Eastern Reeion: Natal, Buchanan! Griqualand East; moist places near 
Kokstad, 5000 ft., Tyson, 1843 ! : 
Described from living plants in the Kew collection. 
4. H. magnificus (Herb. in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 71, No. 153); 
bulb globose, 3-4 in. diam. ; scale-leaves 6-8, orbicular ; leafy stem 
reaching @ length of 2 feet, not developed till after the peduncles, _ 
spotted with red-brown ; produced leaves 6-8, oblong, membranous, 
bright green, undulated, 12-15 in. long, 4—5 in. broad, not petioled, 
narrowed to a clasping base ; main veins 8-10 on each side of the 
distinct midrib, tranverse veinlets close and very oblique ; peduncle 
lateral, very stout, about a foot long; umbel globose, very dense, 
sometimes 5-6 in. diam. ; pedicels slender, 1-1 in. long; bracts 6-8, 
ovate, ascending, imbricated, bright green, about 2 in. long, plain 
or spotted with red-brown; perianth bright scarlet, 1 in. long; 
tube cylindrical; segments ascending, twice as long as the tube; 
filaments bright scarlet, an inch long; anthers oblong, yellow; style 
overtopping the anthers; berry bright red, the size of a small cherry. 
Kunth, Enum. v. 589. Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 66. H. puniceus, 
var, magnifica, Herb. in Bot. Mag. sub t. 3870. H. Rouperi, Floral 
Mag. 1875, t. 148. 
Var. 8, H. insignis (Hook. in Bot. . t. 4745); b lai much 
overtopping the flowers, 5-6 in. | ong, Mag ); bracts plain green, 
Var. y, Gumbletoni (Baker ; leafy stem about a foot long ; leaves orbicular, 
