194 NEW AMARYLLIDACE^. 



order for a comparison, tlie general habit is most like that of 

 a small Cyrtanthm, the narrowly funnel-shaped tube of the 

 perianth being quite similar, and, as in that genus, curving more 

 in the outer flowers of the umbel ; but the structure is totally 

 different from that of any Amaryllid already known. By its 

 corona, distinctly exterior to the whorl of stamens proper, the 

 genus to whicli it approximates most of all is Xarcissiis. Here 

 the staminodia palpably represent an outer whorl of stamens, for, 

 as Dr. Welwitsch has noted and one of his specimens shows, they 

 casually bear a small abortive anther at the tip. The alliance, 

 both in habit and structure, is very close with TulhagJiia, in 

 Liliacea, a genus the range of which Dr. Welwitsch found to 

 extend from the Cape to Angola, and a new species, which Lieut. 

 Caimeron has lately discovered on the shores of Lake Tanganika. 

 In TuJharfhia, however, the fruit is capsular, whilst here it closely 

 resembles that of Hannanthus. It is scarcely needful for me to 

 explain that here, as in other cases, these descriptions are greatly 

 indebted for their completeness to the careful notes which Dr. 

 "Welwitsch made from the living specimens. 



HyEMANTHUs (Nerissa) angolensis, Welw. MSS., n.'sp. Bulb nar- 

 row, with a long neck ; outer sheaths spotted with pm-ple. Leaves 

 developed on a special stem, as in H. multiflorus and abyssiniciis, 

 produced after the flowers ; fully- developed channelled petioles six 

 to nme inches long; lamina thin, oblong, acute, abruptly narrowed 

 at the base, nine to twelve inches long, three to four inches broad ; 

 central main veins one-sixth to one-eighth of an inch apart; 

 obhque cross-bars about half a line apart. Scape lateral, six to 

 eight inches long. Umbel three to four inches in diameter, not so 

 densen or so many-flowered as m multiflorus and ahyssinicus. Bracts 

 many, linear, reddish ; pedicels three-quarters to an inch long. 

 Ovary globose, perianth bright red ; tube cylindrical, one -third of 

 an inch long ; segments linear, three-quarters of an inch long. 

 Filaments rather longer than the perianth-segments. Anthers 

 yellow, oblong, under a line long. 



Golungo Alto, in primaeval woods, 1000-2400 feet, flowering 

 in February, Wehritsch, 4008 ! The species of this section of 

 Hcemanthm have rapidly increased lately. There are two in 

 Kunth, and another has been in cultivation several years. I 

 described three new ones, not long ago, in the ' Gardeners' 

 Chronicle.' We have now two more in cultivation at Kew, of 

 which plates will be given in the ' Botanical Magazine ;' and now 

 here are two others, raising the total number to ten. This group 

 is almost endemic in Tropical Africa, only one of the species 

 reachmg into Natal. 



H^MANTHUs (Nerissa) filiflorus, Hiern MSS., n. sp. Leaves 

 five to six, as in the last, produced on a special stem about a foot 

 long, which is developed after the flowers ; sheathing petiole not 

 more than tw^o to three inches long ; lamina thin, oblong, finally 

 a foot long by half a foot broad ; central veins three-eighths to 

 half an inch apart ; oblique cross-bars much closer than in 



