56 Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
mostly broad, lying nearly on tlie ground. Flowers generally 
very long-stalked, from which peculiarity the vernacular 
name of “ Candelabra Flower ” is derived. 
A South African genus with 9 known species, of which 
one occurs in the Transvaal. 
1. B. Cooper i, Baker. Bulb large, ovoid, with pale 
brown, membranous tunics ; leaves 4-6, lingulate, spreading 
almost horizontally, 9 in. long, 4 in. wide at the middle, thick, 
many and closely veined, margin thickened and scabrous ; 
peduncle round, a foot or more long ; flowers many in an 
umb-1, bright red, pedicels 3-4 in. long ; bracts two, ovate, 
nearly 2 in. long ; perianth 2-2\ in. long ; stamens as long as 
perianth-segments ; style a little longer. 
Barberton, Galpin, 422,2 ; Nelspruit, Rogers, in Transvaal 
Museum Herbarium, 2276 ; Belfast, Bolus, 42365. 
8. Buphane, Herb. (F.C. VI., 242.) 
Perianth regular with short, straight tube ; segments 
narrow, spreading, linear or lanceolate ; stamens inserted at 
the throat of the tube, filaments long, filiform, anthers dorsi- 
fixed ; ovary turbinate, ovules few, round, style filiform, 
stigma slightly three-lobed, capsule membranous, indehiscent, 
seeds few, bulbiform. — Plants with large bulbs and rose-red or 
dark red, small flowers in very dense umbels ; leaves many, 
lorate or lingulate, firm in texture, appearing after the flowers. 
A South African genus with few species, of which one 
occurs in the Transvaal, extending to Tropical Africa. 
4. B. toxicaria , Thunb. “ Poison bulb ” or “ Giftbol 
Bulb very large, 6-8 in. diam. with many hundreds of tunics, 
the outer, brown, firm in texture ; leaves appearing after the 
flowers, ensiform, distichous, firm, bluish-green, closely ribbed, 
acuminate, hairy on the margin, 4-4 \ fii long, 4-4J in. wide ; 
peduncle short, stout, flattened ; bracts deltoid, longer than the 
pedicels, perianth dark red, segments linear, reflexed ; filaments 
red, longer than the segments, anthers yellow, dorsifixed ; 
ovary turbinate, tapering gradually into the angular pedicels, 
style red, nearly as long as the stamens. 
The inflorescence in fruit is called the u Windwaaier ”, 
consisting of very many triangular capsules on very long 
stalks, the pedicels having grown out to six times their length. 
Seeds in a capsule 3 or less, white, bulbiform. The seed 
germinates in the closed capsule, the young root breaks through 
the thin fruitwall and gradually the first leaves to appear 
through the opening, which becomes larger, thus giving 
opportunity to the young plant to become free and to grow on, 
