No. 702. 
HAMANTHUS PUBESCENS. 
Class. Order. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
A nativeof South Africa, whence it was 
first brought to this country about the year 
1774. The flower-stem is usually about a foot 
in length, supporting a kind of sguare 
shaped head, consisting of nearly a hundred 
flowers closely crowded together, and of an 
able ce. The stem and leaves 
near their edges are thickly clothed with a 
whitish kind of hairy down. The blossoms 
come out in April, if kept in the stove, 
which seems to be the most suitable place 
for it. It should be potted in sandy loam, 
and is but rarely increased by offsets from 
the bulb. 
