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spread-out flowers look like yellow stars and are called, 
“Wilde Morgenster ” and “Wilde Tulp.” Leaves more or 
less hairy, linear, lanceolate and plicate, persistent. 
The very long, tough and strong leaves of some species 
are used by the Kaffirs in making ropes with which they tie 
up the bundles of grass for the roof of their huts. Largely 
spread at the Cape, extending to tropical Africa, Australia 
and a great part of America. More than 50 known species, of 
which 14 occur in the Transvaal. 
Key to the Species. 
Perianth small, in. long. 
Leaves subterete. 
Flowers one or two, corm very small, j-J diam. 
1. H. fill for mis. 
Flowers 2-5. corymbose, corm 14-2 in. diam. 
2. H. Kraussiana. 
Leaves linear. 
Leaves silky. 3. H. argentea. 
Leaves hairy, but not silky. 4. H. Gerrardi. 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate. 
Flowers corymbose. 
Leaves membranous. 5. H. memhranacea. 
Leaves rigid. 
Leaves shorter than the peduncles. 
6. H. parvlfolia. 
Leaves longer than the peduncles. 
7. H. villosct. 
Flowers racemose. 8. H. ohtusa. 
Perianth larger, in. long. 
Leaves linear. 
Leaves weak ; peduncle single. 
9. H. acuminata. 
Leaves rigid : peduncles 2-3. 
10. H. rigidula. 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate. 
Flowers corymbose, few. 
11. H. multi ceps. 
Flo’' ers racemose, many. 
Lower pedicels very short. 
Leaves nearly glabrous. 12. H. Galpini. 
Leaves densely ciliated on the margin. 
13. If. cost at a. 
Lower pedicels 1 in. long, leaves glabrous or 
nearly glabrous above, hairy on the back and 
margin. 14. H. Rooperi. 
1. H. fUiformis , Balter. Corm very small, [-^ in. diam. 
with a long neck and membranous tunics ; leaves (>, subterete, 
strongly ribbed, loosely hairy, 3-9 in. long, under 1 line 
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