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wide ; peduncles 1-2, slender, hairy, 1-5 in. long, 1-2 
dowered ; perianth J in. long, pale yellow, greenish and hairy 
outside ; stamens half as long as perianth, anthers deeply 
sagittate ; ovary densely hairy, stigmas concrete. 
Saddleback Range, near Barberton, 4500-5000 ft., Galpin, 
1101 ; Makapansgat, Zoutpansberg, in vleis, flowering Sep- 
tember and October, Miss Leendertz, 894 ; Engelsche Doorn- 
boom, Pretoria District, flowering December, Janse in 
Transvaal Museum Herbarium, 3023; Dalriach, near ’Mbabane, 
Swazieland, Bolus, 12359. 
2. H. Kraussiana , Buck. (F.C. VI.,-. p. 180,, No. 14.) 
Johannesburg, Galpin, 6177 ; Swazieland, Galpin, 984. 
3. H. argentea , Harv. Corm ovoid with a long neck, 
crowned with a ring of bristles ; leaves 6-12, linear, 
acuminate, firm in texture, 4-6 in. long, 1-1^ line wide ? 
densely silky with long hairs on both sides ; peduncles 2, 
slender, densely silky, shorter than the leaves ; flowers 2, 
corymbose, pedicels hairy, \ in. or more long, bracts small, 
narrow ; perianth-segments \ in. long, the outer ones densely 
hairy ; stamens very short, anthers deeply sagittate ; ovary 
silky, stigmata concrete. 
Pretoria, flowering in November, common in good soil 
and stony places, Burtt-Davy, 716; plains round Pretoria, 
4000 ft., Bolus, 176 ; Irene, flowering October, Miss Leendertz, 
916. 
Var . flaccida, Baker. (F.C. VI., 182, var.) 
4. H. Gerrardi , Baker. Corm oblong, 2 in. long, \ in. 
diam., crowned with many long bristles and with a long 
neck ; leaves 6-10 linear, rigid, strongly ribbed, 4 in. long at 
the flowering time, 1 line wide, short and softly pilose all 
over ; peduncles 2 or 3, slender, hairy, longer than the leaves; 
flowers 2-4, pedicels densely hairy,' \ in. long, bracts small, 
linear ; perianth-segments in. long, the outer ones densely 
hairy on the back ; stamens short ; ovary densely pilose. 
Koedoespoort, near Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 645 ; with- 
out precise locality, McLea in Herb., Bolus, 12594. 
5. H. membranacea , Baker. Corm very small with a 
long neck ; leaves 4-8, oblong-lanceolate, membranous, 1-3 
in. loog, \ wide at the middle, thinly hairy with long, soft 
hairs ; peduncles 1-2, very slender, hairy, two-flowered, 
pedicels as long as the peduncle ; perianth ^ in. long, whitish- 
yellow, hairy on the outside ; stamens nearly as long as the 
perianth-segments ; ovary hairy. 
Swazieland, Galpin, 1049. 
6. H. jjarvifolia , Baker. Corm oblong, \ in. diam., 
crowned with a dense ring of bristles ; leaves 4-8, oblong- 
lanceolate, firm, strongly ribbed, slightly hairy, 1-2, in. long ; 
