242 AMAEYLLIDEX (Baker). [Hemanthus. 
flowers, lorate, suberect, 6-9 in. long, 14-2 in. broad above the middle, 
narrowed to }—3 in. at the base, minutely ciliated, glabrous or finely 
pilose on the face and back, blotched with red on the back towards 
the base ; peduncle compressed, dark red, 3—4 in. long ; umbel dense, 
globose, 1-14 in. diam. ; pedicels very short; bracts usually 4, rarely 
5-6, oblong, red, ascending, 1}-2 in, long, overtopping the flowers ; 
perianth bright red, 3-7 in. long; tube short; segments linear ; 
stamens distinctly exserted ; anthers yellow, oblong ; style overtopping 
the stamens. Thunb. Prodr, 59; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 299; Baker, 
Handb. Amaryllid. 73. H. quadrivalvis, Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 30, 
t. 58; Bot. Mag. t. 1523; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. ii. 208; Herb. 
Amaryllid. 235, t. 31, fig. 4; Kunth, Enum. v. 594; Salisb. Gen. 131. 
Soutn Arrica: without locality, Masson ! 
Coast Rea@ion: Malmesbury Div.; Groene Kloof, Thunberg! Worcester 
Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, Drége, 8552 ! 
I have seen the type specimens of H. pubescens both in the Linnean and 
Thunbergian herbaria. 
XIX. BUPHANE, Herb. 
Perianth erect, hypocrateriform, with a short campanulate or sub- 
cylindrical tube and equal spreading linear or lanceolate segments. 
Stamens inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube; filaments 
straight, filiform ; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, versatile. Ovary tur- 
binate, 3-celled ; ovules 2-4, attached to the middle of the placenta ; 
style simple, obscurely 3-lobed at the stigmatose apex. Capsule 
membranous, turbinate, Joculicidally 3-valved. Seeds solitary, globose, 
bulbiform, 
Rootstock a large tunicated bulb; leaves ensiform or lingulate, coriaceous, 
peduncle short, stout, solid; flowers aggregated in dense umbels; spathe of two 
opposite deltoid valves, 
DistaiB. One of the two Cape species extends its range to the mountains of 
Equatorial Africa. . . 
Perianth-tube short ; leaves linear, not ciliated .» (1) longipedicellata. 
Perianth-tube suboylindrical; leaves ensiform, not eucinn 
ciliated ... =r aks va a say .. (2) disticha. 
Perianth-tube campanulate; leaves lingulate, ciliated ee 
ies .. (3) ciliaris. 
with scales... ee 
1. B longipedicellata (Pax in Engl. Jahrb. x. 4) ; bulb not seen ; 
leaves linear, erecto-patent, glaucous, glabrous, 4—5 in. long, crisped at 
the edge ; peduncle stout, as long as the leaves ; umbel 8 in. or more 
in diameter ; spathes deciduous at the flowering-time ; pedicels 5 in. 
long ; perianth-tube very short; segments linear, recurved, rose-red, 
vittate, 1) in. long; stamens as long as the perianth-segments ; 
capsule turbinate ; seeds 1-2 in a cell. 
Katanaki Recion: Griqualand West; i a ak a 
Marloth, 974! ™ 3 in sandy soil at Barkly West, 871 . 
eee ase 
2. B. disticha (Herb. in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2578) ; bulb subglobose, 
6-8 in. diam., with many hundreds of tunics, the outer brown and 
