236 AMARYLLIDEA (Baker). [Hemanthus. 
glabrous, green, slightly compressed, 4-6 in. long, 3—$ in. diam. ; 
umbel dense, globose, 2 in. diam.; bracts 6-7, oblong, imbricated, 
white with green veins, about 14 in. long; pedicels 3-j in. long; 
perianth white, an inch long; tube cylindrical, $ in. long; segments 
lanceolate, twice as long as the tube; filaments white, an inch long; 
anthers oblong, pale yellow; style as long as the stamens. Baker, 
Handb. Amaryllid. 69. 
Eastern Recion: Pondoland, Bachmann, 293! Natal; Mount Moreland, 
Wood, 1006! near Durban, Wood, 1989! 
Described from plants that fowered with Messrs. Low at Clapton, November, 
1875, and Messrs. Henderson, Maida Vale, December, 1877. 
18. H. Baurii (Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6875); bulb compressed, 
oblong, 3-4 in. in the long diameter; tunics thick, green; leaves 2, 
suborbicular, truncate at the apex, 3 ft. long, 7-8 in. broad, glabrous 
on the surface, densely ciliated on the margin with minute spreading 
whitish hairs; peduncle under 2 in. long, } in. diam., glabrous; 
umbel dense, about 2 in, diam. ; bracts 5-6, oblong, white, mem- 
branous, imbricated, very obtuse, 2 in. long, overtopping the flowers ; 
pedicels about } in. long; perianth pure white, above an inch long; 
tube infundibuliform, 4 in. long; segments lanceolate, 2 in. long; 
stamens as long as the perianth-segments; anthers oblong, bright 
yellow, ~, in. long; ovary green, oblong; style just exse 
Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 69. 
Eastern Region: Griqualand East; Shawbury, close to the Tsitsa Falls, 
1500 ft., Baur, 231! 
Flowered at Kew, Nov., 1885. Included amongst the drawings of Natal 
plants exhibited by Miss Large at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition of 1886. 
14. H. Arnottii (Baker in Gard, Chron. 1878, x. 492); bulb. 
globose, 3 in. diam. ; tunics thick, green, bifarious; leaves 2, pro- 
duced after the flowers, round-oblong, spreading, very obtuse, 4-5 in. 
long, 3-4 in. broad, dull green on the face, very pale green on 
the back, glabrous except on and near the margin, ciliated with 
long, soft, whitish hairs; peduncle 4—5 in. long, rather com- 
pressed, purplish red, glabrous; umbel 13-2 in. diam. ; pedicels 
$-{ in, long; bracts 5-6, oblong-lanceolate, ascending, whitish with 
conspicuous green veining, 14-14 in. long; perianth white, § in. 
long ; tube} in. long; segments lanceolate, twice as long as the tube ; 
filaments distinctly exserted ; anthers minute, oblong, yellow ; ovary 
green, globose; style a little overtopping the anthers. Baker, Handb. 
Amaryllid. 68, 
Czntrat Rzeion : Colesberg Div., Arnot ! 
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in June, 1878, the leaves not 
being fully developed till September. | 
15. H. deformis (Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 5903); bulb slightly 
compressed, 3-4 in. diam. ; tunics thick, green, bifarious; leaves 4, 
distichous, spreading, contemporary with the flowers, orbicular, 
