a ES Wu T por eu. ym 
Mob T 
Be CXXIII. AMARYLLIDER. 449 
e ie as Wight's C. malabarica. The South pene (Guiana W odia] 
ypoxis scorzonerifolia, Lam., is scarcely distinguishable from the pon ip ies 
qula, jd tin for reasons unexplained it is still retained in Hypoxis by Seubert in 
nsis, 
Var. longifolia. Ts may prove to be a iras jets if the characters are found 
constant. It is more slender and n ku glabrous. Leaves rigid, 13 ft. long and only 
i 
but pedicel of 4. in. or rather more. tube not so slender as in the ber de "cie 
N. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n 
9. HYPOXIS, Linn. 
Perianth persistent, — to the ovary into 6 rarely 4 nearly equal 
spreading s ies Stamens 6, rarely 4, inserted at the ba - of the 
segments; anth blong or linear, more or less lobed at the base. 
Ovary 3-celled sandy 2-celled, with many ovules in 2 rows in wat cell. 
Style short, with 3, rare 2 oblong or linear erect stigmas connate or 
free, papillose outside. apsule globular oblong or linear, crowned by 
lian species) “at length falls ies Yee. with it the ars - M c eher 
i Ive u arg 
—Her th bulbous or tuberous eea covered with s paoe 
mbranous or fibrous scales.. Leaves radical, flat or terete, usuall 
hair em leafless or Mn a mo ne leaf. Flowers white 
nia Asia -— Atia a, more abundant in South Africa, 
e genus is spread over t 
sg dst species, one is also in New 
The 
with two or three American cive Of dec 
Zealand, the others are all believ: i to be e 
Capsule M pen or oblong, not yin twice as s Img a as broad. 
Anthers deeply divided at the . . + l. H. hygrometrica. 
nthers scarcel s or very s Adr ished at the base 
th-se ts 3 to 5 lines TE Stamens nearly equal. 
Capsule dt or 2. H. glabella. 
Perianth-segments scarcely 2 lin es long. “Stamens alter: : 
nately shorter. Capsule y globular 3. H. pusilla. 
he Y linear, 4 or 5 times as long as 
eaves subulate. Pani: alternately longer. Stigmas - 
and narrow . H. leptantha. 
Leaves linear-terete. Stamens nearly equal. ` Stigmas short s H. occidentalis. 
mts s narrow-linear but flat with Veios nerve-like ma À 
6. H. marginata. 
H. h hygro ometrica, La bill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 82, t. 108. Rhizome 
belt into a small tuber emitting thick clustered roots and covered 
at the top by the membranous leaf-sheaths not splitting into fibre es. 
Leaves narrow-linear or almost filiform, from under 6 in. to se ly ift; 
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