NEW AMARYLLIDACE^. 197 



BupHANE ANGOLENsis, Baker, n. sp. Bulb large, ovoid; tunics 

 firm, brown. Leaves about six to a stem, lorate, bifarious, curved 

 and adpressed to the ground, six to eight inches long, half to three- 

 quarters of an inch broad, glaucous, fimbriato-ciliate. Scape stout, 

 lateral, not more than one to two inches long ; umbel six to eight- 

 flowered ; outer bracts lanceolate, one and a half to two inches 

 long ; pedicels very short. Flowers dull red. Ovary small, oblong. 

 Perianth-tube cylindrical, two inches long ; segments spreading, 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, about an inch long. Filaments inserted at 

 the throat of the tube, a quarter of an inch long. Anthers oblong, 

 one-eighth of an inch long. 



Huilla, in bushy, dampish pastures of the sub-temperate region 

 (3800-5500 feet), flowering in October, Welivitsch, 4012! Very 

 different from the two Cape species already known. Dr. Welwitsch 

 found B. toxicaria in several provinces of Angola, and Lieutenant 

 Cameron got it on the shores of Lake Tanganika. 



Cyrtanthus (Monella) WELWiTscmi, Hiern MSS., n. sp. Bulb 

 ovoid, an inch in diameter. Leaves about four, cotemporary with 

 the flowers, fleshy, linear, glabrous, glaucous, one to one and a half 

 feet long, a quarter to one-third of an inch broad. Scape slender, 

 as long as the leaves. Umbel three to eight-flowered ; outer bracts 

 linear, one and a half to two inches long ; bracteoles subulate ; 

 pedicels one to two inches long. Ovary oblong, a quarter of an 

 inch long ; perianth red, one to one and a half inches long ; 

 segments linear, about as long as the more or less curved narrowly 

 funnel-shaped tube. Stamens a little exserted from the perianth- 

 tube, distinctly biseriate ; anthers yellow, oblong, a line long. 

 Style overtopping the anthers, with three spreading subulate 

 branches. Capsiile oblong, three-quarters of an inch long, tkree- 

 valved down to the base. Seeds in a long row in each cell, 

 oblique, discoid, black, half an inch long, a quarter of an inch 

 broad. 



Huilla, m damp places of the sub-temperate region (3800- 

 5500 feet), in company with Typha and Bichardia, flowering in 

 November, Welwitsch, 4028 ! General habit of the well-known 

 C. angustifolius. Ait., of the Cape, from which it differs by the 

 perianth- segments reaching half-way down to the ovaiy. 



ExPLAHATiON OF Tab. 197. — Fig. 1. Cryptostephamis densifloriis, Welw. 

 2. Longitudinal section of flower (enlarged.) 3. Transverse section of ovary 

 (enlarged.) 4. Cluster of fruit (natural size.) 5. Vertical section of berry 

 (natural size.) 



