BULBOUS PLANTS 



Curator of the Cambridge Botanic Gardens, from Natal, and flowered in 

 this country in the autumn of 1878. The plant suited to greenhouse 

 culture, is, when in bloom, very ornamental. The flowers on the upper 

 portion of a spike 1 ft. or more high, are greenish-white margined purple. 



EUEYCLES SYLVESTEIS, Salisb. 



Syns. E. australasica, Loud. 

 Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1879, p. 25, fig. p. 13. 



A bulbous plant allied to Pancratium, re-introduced from the South Sea 

 Islands by P. C. M. Veitch in 1877. 



The pure white flowers in umbels open during the months of February 

 and March. 



FEITILLAEIA VEETICILLATA, var. THUNBEEGII, Baker. 

 Syns. F. Thunbergii, Miquel. 



Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. xiii. p. 532, with fig. ; The Garden, 1880, vol. xvii. p. 313, 



with fig. 



A Japanese species introduced through Charles Maries, remarkable 

 for a long, narrow, linear leaf, terminating in a tendril, the flowers small, 

 bell-shaped, greenish and mottled with pale purple. 



H^MANTHUS CINNABAEINUS, Desne. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1878, p. 23 ; Fl. and Pom. 1878, p. 155, fig. ; The Florist, 1877, 



col. pi. 



A gorgeous flowering bulbous plant from the West Coast of Tropical 

 Africa, with very dense globular heads of flower of an unusually brilliant 

 cinnabar-scarlet, with the lustre of the familiar Guernsey lily, remaining in 

 perfection for a long period. 



HvEMANTHUS (DIACLES) HIESUTUS, Baker. 



Baker in Gard. Chron. 1878, vol. ix. p. 756. 



Sent from the Transvaal by Mudd and flowered in April 1878. It 

 resembles the hairy variety of Haemanthus virescens, but has leaves of a 

 different shape, longer pedicels, and a differently constructed bract. 



H^MANTHUS KALBEEYEEI, Baker. 



Baker in Gard. Chron. 1878, vol. x. p. 202 ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1880, p. 30, fig. ; The 

 Garden, 1879, vol. xvi. p. 438, col. pi. 



Discovered on the West Coast of Africa by Kalbreyer, after whom 

 Mr. Baker, late of the Herbarium, Kew, named the bulb. 



The splendid flower-head fully 8 in. in diameter, has a somewhat 

 dense and remarkably striking umbel of upwards of one hundred flowers 

 of the brightest vermilion-red. 



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