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flowers, lorate, suberect, ^ ft. long, li-2 in. broad, glabrous on the 

 face, softly ciliated, mottled with red on the back towards the base. 

 Peduncle 3 in. long, compressed, green, mottled with red. Umbel 

 dense, globose; pedicels short; spathe- val ves 5-G, oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, reddish, ascending, 1^ in. long. Perianth pale red, 

 f-|- in. long ; tube short ; segments linear. Stamens exserted. 



Hab. Cape Colony; Southern provinces. Known to me only from Jacquin's 

 figm-e. 



38. H. PUBESCENS Linn. fil. Suppl. 193. H, quadrlvalcis Jacq. 

 Hort. Schoen. i. 30, t. 58 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1523. — Bulb compressed, 

 2 in. diam. ; tunics thick, bifarious. Leaves 2, produced after the 

 flowers, lorate, suberect, 6-9 in. long, 1^-2 in. broad above the 

 middle, narrowed to i-^- in. at the base, minutely ciliated, glabrous 

 or finely pilose on the back and face, blotched with red on the back 

 tow\ards the base. Peduncle compressed, dark red, 3-4 in. long. 

 Umbel dense, globose, 1-1-| in. diam. ; pedicels very short ; spathe- 

 valves usually 4, oblong, red, ascending, 1|~2 in. long, overtopping 

 the flowers. Perianth bright red, f-l in. long ; tube short ; seg- 

 ments linear. Stamens distinctly exserted. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; Southern provinces. I have seen specimens collected 

 by Thunberg and Masson, and from the garden of Dr. Gwyn in 1783. This and 

 not albiflos is the x>ul>escens of the Linnean and Thunbergian herbaria. 



27. BuPHANE Herb. 



Perianth erect, hypocrateriform ; tube short, subcylindrical or 

 campanulate ; segments equal, linear or lanceolate. Stamens 

 inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments straight, 

 filiform ; anthers oblong, versatile. Ocanj turbinate, 3-celled ; 

 ovules 2 in a cell, collateral, sessile at the middle of the placenta ; 

 style simple ; stigma obscurely 3-lobed. Capsule turbinate, mem- 

 branous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds solitary, green, globose. — 

 Eootstock a very large tunicated bulb. Leaves coriaceous, ensiform 

 or Ungulate. Peduncle short, stout, solid. Flowers in an umbel 

 very numerous, red; spathe of two large ovate valves. 



1. B. DisTicHA Herb, in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2578. Amaryllis 

 disticha Linn. fil. B. toxicaria Herb. Ha:manthus toxicarius Thunb. ; 

 Jacq. Fragm. t. 39-40 ; Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1217. Bruusvigia 

 toxicaria Gawl. in Bot. Pieg. t. 567. — Bulb subglobose, 6-9 in. 

 diam., with many hundreds of thin brown tunics. Leaves 8-16, 

 distichous, ensiform, suberect, not ciliated, finally 1-1^ ft. long, 

 often undulated. Peduncle stout, compressed, glaucous, |— 1 ft. 

 long. Umbel dense, i-l ft. diam. ; pedicels 2-4 in. long; spathe- 

 valves ovate, deciduous, 2-3 in. long. Perianth tube subcylindrical, 

 i-| in. long ; segments linear, |-1 in. long. Stamens equalHng or 

 a little exceeding the perianth-segments. Capsule turbinate, f in. 

 long. 



Hab. Eastern provinces of Cape Colony northward to Angola, Lake 

 Nyassa, and Lake Tanyanika, where it was found by Lieut. Cameron and Mr. 

 Joseph Thomson. Fruited by Sir C. W. Strickland in August, 1879. 



