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Hexmanthus.] AMARYLLIDEE (Baker). . 237 
pilose, 3}~4 in. long and broad, not mottled nor specially ciliated ; 
peduncle scarcely any; umbel compressed, 13 in. in the long 
diameter ; bracts 5-6, subequal, ascending, obovate-oblong, obtuse, 
white, 1}~-1} in. long; pedicels } in. long; perianth white, nearly 
an inch long; tube } in. long ; segments linear, Zin. long; stamens 
longer than the perianth-segments; anthers oblong, yellow; style 
as long as the stamens. Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 69. 
Eastern Reaion: Natal, McKen! 
Described from a specimen that flowered at Kew in March, 1871. 
16. H. Mackenii (Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 69); bulb 3-4 in. 
diam. ; tunies thick, green, bifarious; leaves 2, contemporary with 
the flowers, round-oblong, spreading, 6-8 in. long, 4—5 in. broad, 
glabrous on the face, clothed on the margin and under surface witu 
soft, whitish, spreading hairs; peduncle scarcely any; umbel few- 
flowered, compressed, about 2 in. in the long diameter ; bracts oblong, 
the outer greenish, densely pubescent, the inner white, veined with 
green ; pedicels very short; perianth white, nearly an inch long; 
tube cylindrical, } in. long; segments linear; filaments white, { in. 
long; anthers oblong, yellow ; style as long as the stamens. 
Eastern Recion: Natal, McKen! 
Described from a plant that flowered with Mr. Bull, Nov., 1870. 
17. H. Cooperi (Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 70) ; bulb compressed, 
4 in. diam.; leaves 2, produced in October, spreading orbicular, 
4-5 in, long and broad, shortly ciliated on the margin ; scape com- 
pressed, glabrous, as long as the leaves, } in, diam.; umbel dense, 
globose, 3 in. diam., produced in July; pedicels } in. long; bracts 
5—6, ovate, red, an inch long, ascending ; perianth deep flesh-coloured, 
an inch long; segments lanceolate, twice as long as the tube ; stamens 
distinctly exserted; anthers minute, oblong, yellow; style over- 
topping the stamens. 
Sour Arrica: without locality. 
Described from a sketch of a plant from Mr. Cooper, which flowered at 
Kew in 1863. rae 
18. H. hirsutus (Baker in Gard. Chron, 1878, ix. 756); bulb com- 
pressed, 3 in. diam. ; tunics thick, bifarious, brownish ; leaves 2, 
contemporary with the flowers, round-oblong, 5-6 in. long at the 
flowering-time, 34-4 in. broad, suberect, very obtuse, shortly hairy 
all over both sides, dark green on the face, paler green on the back, 
the hairs at and near the edge longer than those of the surface ; 
peduncle a little longer than the leaves, } in. diam., greenish in the 
upper, reddish in the lower, densely clothed with spreading, soft, 
whitish hairs; umbel globose, 3~4 in. diam. ; pedicels about } in. 
long; bracts 6-8, oblong, membranous, bright red, ascending or 
spreading ; perianth white or pink, an inch long ; segments oblan- 
ceolate, obtuse, twice as long as the tube ; filaments white, an inch 
