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HABRANTHUS^^ Andersoul 

 Anderson's Habranf/ms. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Amaryllide;e. 



HA BRANTHUS Hevhert. — German medio constrictum ; tubus oequalis. 

 Filamenta declinata, fasciculata, recurvata, quateina longitudiue. Stylus 



declinatus, recuivatus. Semina cumulata, complanata nigra. Flos sub 



sole patentior. — Herbert MSS. 



H . Andersoni ; bulbo parvo obovato, foliis angustis 5-6-uncialibus, scapo 

 unifloro subrubescente 3-4-unciali, spatha unciali apice diviso, pedunculo 

 l|-unclali, gennine subrubescente, corolla 12-unciali aurea v. cupreu, 

 striis externis et fundo subfusco-rubescente. tubo -i -unciali menibrana 

 intus clauso, laciniis externis imbricantibus, filamentis internis longiori- 

 bus : sumnio brevissimo stylo longiore. — Herbert MSS. 



Var, «; aurea. 



Var. /3 ; cuprea. 



Var. y. obscura ; alabastrum extus aterrimum. 



Var. ^. brevilimba ; foliis latioribus. 



" This bright-coloured Habranthus was sent to Mr. Mackay by 

 his collector, Mr. Anderson, with some other species, from Monte 

 Video, in the spring of 1829. The bulbs flowered abundantly in the 

 greenhouse of Mr. Mackay, at Upper Clapton, in April and May 

 1830; but the flowers do not expand well unless the sun shines 

 bright and warm. They are either golden or copper coloured, with 

 brownish red streaks on the outside, and forming within a dark eye 

 to the flower. The specimens of the golden variety, which seems 

 to be the most plentiful, vary a little in the breadth and colour of 

 the leaves. The upper filament is the shortest of the three shorter, 

 and the lowest is a little the shortest of the three longer filaments. 

 If the weather is cold and gloomy, the flowers do not expand, and 

 the filaments do not acquire their proper posture and proportions ; 

 and in that imperfect state it would be very difficult to decide 

 whether the flower belonged to Habranthus, or the nearly allied 



* So named from «/3go?, delicate, and «y.^o?, a flower. 



