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AMARYLLIDACEjE. 
Hessea in preference, seeing that Mr. Salisbury had very 
many years before published the character of his genus Car- 
polyza, with a figure and dissections of the plant, in the 
Parad. Londin. The name Hessea was given, as I understand, 
in compliment to Mr. Hess, a most respectable Missionary at 
the Cape, and I am glad to be able to transfer the name, 
which cannot stand in the place of Carpolyza, to a closely 
allied genus. 
72. Imhofia. — Spathe 2-valved ; limb patent ; style erect, 
strumous or thicker below, furrowed ; stigma simple 
or just trifid ; filaments equal, enlarged at the base, 
separate, inserted in the disk, patent. (Quaere, whe- 
ther sometimes adhering to the base of the style.) An- 
thers short, attached at the base, erect, after expan- 
sion circular. Seeds (like those of Nerine) green, with 
one angle and a rounded back. 
1. Filifolia. — PI. 29. f. 8. Strumaria filifolia. Jacq. ic. 
r. 2-14. Bot. Reg. 4. 440. Leucojum strumosum, 
Jacq. ic. t. 361. in icone, non in textu. — Hort. Kew. 
Leaves almost filiform, channelled; flowers 5-11, 
segments acute, not undulated, white, lined without 
with red ; style with a great 3-furrowed protrusion 
below the middle ; stigma with 3 short lobes ; an- 
thers purple. I have neglected to examine this 
plant minutely, when in flower ; it is said to have a 
nectareous membrane adhering to the base of the 
style. It ripens seed freely, and is easily cultivated, 
if not watered in the summer. Grows near the Cape 
and Nyland, in sandy places. 
2. Crispa. — Strumaria Crispa. Bot. Mag. 33. 1363. 
Amaryllis Crispa. Jacq. H. Sell. 1. 37. t. 72. Am. 
Cinnamomea. L’Herit. S. A. 16. 27. Leaves fili- 
form ; flowers 7 or more, undulated, white and rose- 
coloured; anthers purple; filaments subulate; style 
thick and 3-furrowed. 
3. Burchelliana. — PI. 29. fig. 5. Specim. Burch. Herb. 
4954 et 4967. Scapo 4 \ unc. spatha f, pedunc. 
1^-1^, florib. 7-11, albis, lin. dorsal, (viridi ?) peri- 
antliio vix 4, subundulato, staminibus longiore ; 
filamentis et stylo basi incrassatis ; antheris albis ; 
stigmate simpl. aut vix trifido. Circa Langkloof. 
