240 AMARYLLIDEX (Baker). [ Hemanthus. 
lines long; perianth ? in. long, the tube 14 line long, the segments 
linear, obtuse, pink ; stamens exserted ; anthers small, yellow. Baker, 
Handb. Amaryllid. p. 71. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Burchell, bulb No. 129. 
The specimen is from a bulb collected by Burchell, and grown in his garden at 
Fulham, in the years 1817-1819. 
26. H. moschatus (Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iv. 6, t. 410); bulb 
compressed, 3 in. diam.; tunics thick, bifarious, brown or reddish 
at the top; leaves 2, produced after the flowers, lingulate, 14 ft. long, 
4-41 in, broad at the middle, narrowed to 2 in. at the base, obseurely 
pubescent when young, glabrous when mature, marked on the back 
with interrupted transverse bars of darker green on a pale green 
ground ; peduncle glabrous, much compressed, § ft. long, pale green 
blotched with dark green; umbel dense, globose, 2-3 in. diam. ; 
_ pedicels }-2 in. long; bracts 6-8, oblong, subacute, bright red, 
ascending, about 2 in. long; flowers with a strong foxy or musky 
scent; perianth nearly an inch long, light scarlet; segments three 
times as long as the tube ; stamens distinctly exserted ; anthers oblong, 
bright yellow; style as long as the stamens. Poir. Encyc. Suppl. il. 
33 ; Roem. et Schulies, Syst. Veg. vii. 890; Herb. Amaryllid. 236, 
t. 31, fig. 7; Kunth, Enum. v. 596; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 72. 
Sourn AFrica: without locality. 
Described after Jacquin, and a plant sent in 1878 by Colonel Trevor Clarke. 
27. H. coccineus (Linn. Sp. Plant. 325) ; bulb compressed, 3 in. 
diam. ; tunics many, thick, bifarious, brown at the apex; leaves 2, 
fully developed in English gardens in December or January, lingulate, 
suberect, 13-2 ft. long, 6-8 in. broad above the middle, narrowed 
gradually to 3-4 in. at the base, green, not maculate, glabrous both 
upon the surfaces and margin ; peduncle 6-9 in. long, compressed, 
green, mottled with minute dots of purplish-brown ; umbel dense, 
globose, 2-3 in. diam.; pedicels }-} in. long; bracts 6-8, oblong, 
obtuse, imbrieated, bright red, permanently ascending, 2-24 in. long ; 
perianth bright red, about an inch long; tube short; segiments 
linear ; stamens exserted; anthers oblong, bright yellow; style as 
long as the stamens. Thunb. Prodr. 59; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 300 ; 
Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1075; Red. Lil. t. 39; Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
t, 240; Herb. Amaryllid. 236 ; Kunth, Enum. v. 596; Baker, Handb. 
Amaryllid. 71. 
Var. 8, H. coaretatus (Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr, i. 30, t. ; loped 
leaves about a foot esol 3-4 in. broad; bracts natal Pag Borie 1% 
pit i Sp. Plant. ii. 25; Poir. Encye. Suppl. iii, 82; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 
Var. y, H. carinatus (Linn. Sp. Plant. edit. 2, 413); leaves above a foot long, 
much narrower and more deeply channelled down the face than in the type- 
Lam, Encyc, iii, 102; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 27 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii, 209. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Villette! 
Coast Reeion: near Cape Town, Thunberg ! Burchell, 892! 
