AMARYLLIDACEiE. 
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71. Hessea. — Spathe bifid; limb regular, tube short; fila- 
ments equal, subulate, erect at first, afterwards reflex, 
inserted at the mouth of the tube ; anthers short, 
erect, inserted at the base, after expansion circular ; 
style filiform ; stigma trifid, patent, fimbriated ; ger- 
men at first very small, swelling large prematurely, 
turbinate. 
1. Stellaris. — Am. stellaris. Jacq. H. Sch. 1. 37. t. 71. 
There are five specimens in Mr. Lambert’s Herb.; one 
in Dr. Lindley’s. The plant has never, I believe, 
been introduced into this country. The sepals and 
petals seem to differ a little in colour. 
2. Breviflora. — PI. 29. fig. 6. Specim. Herb. Banks. 
leaf PI. 43. f. 4 ; pedunc. unc. erectis, germine 
parvulo, floribus 14, tubo brevi, limbo (albo?) 
semipatente, staminibus vix longioribus, stylo 
breviore. This little plant, which has been long 
overlooked in the Banks. Herb., and is probably one 
of Masson’s, comes near to Thunberg’s Hsemantlms 
vaginatus, but differs in having the style shorter. 
Carpolyza spiralis vaginates, but is not his H. va- 
ginatus. 
Species vix dubia. 
3? Vaginata. — Haemanthus vaginatus. Thunb. Flor. 
Cap. p. 297. Leaves 4-6, linear lanceolate, sheathed 
at the base ; segments of the limb lanceolate, acute, 
shorter than the spathe ; scape solitary, smooth, 
round, a foot long or more, thick as a goose-quill; 
umbel about 20 flowered ; spathe 2-valved, ovate, 
lanceolate, concave, smooth ; peduncles filiform, 
erect, smooth, 1 inch long ; segments equal, acute, 
white ; filaments as long, style longer ; stigma 
trifid. 
This genus, as well as I can ascertain, is distinguished from 
Nerine and Brunsvigia, by its anthers erect and attached at the 
base, and the near equality of the stamens; from the former 
by their equal insertion, and from the latter, by the absence 
of their gibbous union. It is difficult to understand on what 
principle it could have been united with Strumaria. The name 
Hessea was given by Bergius to Carpolyza spiralis ; I know 
not with what view R. and Schultes can have taken the name 
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