PLATE 2259, 
A.—HYPOXIS CURCULIGOIDES, Bolus. 
B.—HYPOXIS SCHLECHTERI, Bolus. 
AMARYLLIDER. Tribe Hyroxmpes. 
ovario oblongo-c avat 
Has, Sandy heathy flats, Kenilworth, near Cape Town, April-May 
(after the first winter rains), Iv. Schlechter (No. 627). 
Folia 3-7 em. longa. Perianthti limbus 1-2-1'8 em. longus. 
from that species. The corm of the latter is usually—and I sup : 
‘nvariably—globose. It is so described by Baker ‘ Journ. Linn. Soe. 
XVil. p it is so in the specimens in erbarium; and 
nt ; in th e m 
though it is differently represented in some of the older figures 
really be variable to so great an extent. The leaves and flowers of 
this plant are smaller and fewer the latter strikingly resembling in 
shape and colour those of Cureuligo plicata), the habit is somewhat 
different, and, finally, while this plant flowers in April and May, 
H. stellata does not appear until July and August.—H. Boxus. 
A.—H. cur ig. i; . 2, Same, longitudinal section. 3. Trans- 
Verse section ot nat, "Ld, heise ace 6. eik, the perianth-segments 
removed, - 7, Longitudinal section of ovary, xcept figs. 1 and 2, enlarged. 
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