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various times throughout the year, but with the greatest luxuriance 

 during the Rains ; the scapes are as thick as a child s wrist, above 

 three feet long, and of a dark reddish-purple colour. The umbels 

 bear about thirty, sweetly fragrant, rosy flowers, on pedicles from 

 one to two inches long, and coloured like the scape." 



13. C. scabrum. A small plant; bears in March umbels of 

 about five erect dingy- white flowers. 



Haemanthus. 



The several species of this genus are natives of the Cape ; 

 and Mrs. Loudon states that the only really beautiful one is 

 H. multiflorus. Dr. Voigt enumerates four species introduced 

 into this country, which he says had not flowered. 



H. virescens : var. albinos. Mrs. Loudon says : " This certainly 

 has no pretensions to be considered ornamental at all." But, 

 in my opinion, its small size and neat ciliated leaves render it 

 a far more desirable plant than many of the Crinums, the flowers 

 of which its own much resemble. A most hardy plant, outliving 

 almost any treatment. Two bulbs I brought from the Cape, 

 and had in my possession six years, only blossomed once 

 during the time, and that was in August, after exposure to very 

 heavy rain. Mr. Villet states that it requires a moist light soil. 

 No doubt it should be encouraged to become dormant in the 

 Cold months. 



Cyrtanthus. 



A genus of very handsome Cape bulbs; rarely, if ever, 

 blossoms here. 



Eurycles. 



E. Amboinensis. A large bulbous plant ; native of Amboyna, 

 not uncommon in the gardens of Calcutta. Grown in a large 

 pot ; its principal point of ornament is its large, handsome, 

 roundish, cordate folding leaves. Bears in May and June 

 scapes with a head of several white middling-sized flowers. 

 Mrs. Loudon says : u It possesses the curious property of the 

 seeds germinating in the capsule, and even producing small 

 bulbs there, which protrude themselves- as soon as the capsule 

 becomes sufficiently ripe to burst/' In small or weakly plants 

 the leaves die down in the Cold season, and do not appear again 

 till late the following Hot season. In repotting the bulb care 



