AMARYLLIDACE^E. 
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which is erased by a line of the pen, and Amaryllis clavata 
added by Dryander. It is memorandumed as growing in 
the fields beyond Camtours rivier. In the MS. catalogue 
pumilio is also erased and clavata substituted by Dryander. 
A. pumilio was the name given to this plant in the Hort. 
Kew. when it had been ascertained that it was not the tubi- 
flora of L’Heritier ; and when Dryander afterwards per- 
ceived its identity with A. clavata of L’Heritier, the right 
name was substituted. Whether the description in the Hort. 
Kew. be correct or not, these entries are decisive as to their 
identity, and Southern Africa has not produced auy other 
one-flowered plant of this suborder, except gethyllis. In 
plate 21. fig. 2. I have given an exact outline of the specimen 
in the Banks, herb, marked Amaryllis pumilio Hort. Kew. 
It is a garden specimen from Kew, which seems to have been 
shrivelled before it was laid in, and is much damaged ; with 
it there is a fragment of a leaf reversed, with top and bottom 
written by Dryander. There is no entry concerning this 
specimen in any of the MS. books. Fig. 3. I have placed 
beside it an exact outline of a flower of Oporanthus luteus 
better preserved, and it will be apparent to the most unprac- 
tised eye that they are specimens of the same species. 
Whether the erroneous description of A. pumilio in the 
Hort. Kew. be from the pen of the younger Linnaeus, as cited 
by Mr. Ker, or (as I have been told) from that of Dr. 
Solander, it is needless to inquire ; it will be evident to any 
person who will examine and compare it with G. clavatum 
and the specimen marked A. pumilio in the Banks. Herb, 
of which I have given an outline, that the description is an 
amalgamation of the two, probably in consequence of an 
attempt to reconcile the description first made from G. 
clavatum with the garden specimen of Oporanthus, erro- 
neously laid in under name of A. pumilio, and so confounded 
with it. At all events Amaryllis pumilio must be expunged 
as a non-entity. 
G. clavatum requires to be kept dry in the winter. Dr. 
Burchell’s bulbs flowered well in his garden border, having- 
been set there in the spring, but they all perished afterwards. 
30. Vallota. — Germen erect; tube straight, wide; limb 
funnel-shaped ; filaments conniving, adhering by one 
side only to the tube (the petaline to the summit of 
the tube or even to the petals, the sepaline lower ;) 
