58 Annals op the Transvaal Museum. 
Leaves thick and fleshy. 
Bracts white, veined with green, flowers pure white. 
4. H. albifos. 
Bracts reddish ; flowers pink or white. 
Bracts and perianth-segments spreading. 
5. H. dinar ylloides. 
Bracts and perianth-segments permanently 
ascending. 6. II. hirsutus. 
1. H. Katharinae , Baker. Bulb globose ; leaves 3-5, pro- 
duced with the flowers, oblong, membranous, bright green, 
distinctly many veined, petiolated, lamina 6 in. long and 2-3 
in. wide, petiole 3 in. long, spotted ; leafy stem short ; 
peduncle distinct from the leaves, spotted low down, long ; 
umbel globose, 6 in. in diam. ; pedicels 1 in. long ; bracts 
5-6, lanceolate, thin, reflexed ; perianth bright red, segments 
lanceolate, narrow, reflexing ; filaments flattened, ascending, 
bright red, longer than' the perianth-segments, anthers yellow; 
ovary round, green, style ascending, longer than the filaments. 
Barberton, stony ground at base of hills, 2000 ft., Galpin, 
711. 
2. H. puniceus , L. (F. C. VI., 231. No. 2.) Barberton, 
Galpin, 673. 
3. H. magni ficus, Herb. Bulb globose, 2^-3 in. diam. 
with many long, very fleshy rootlets ; leafy stem spotted with 
red brown, 5-6 in. long at the flowering time ; leaves 6-8, 
oblong, membranous, bright green, undulated, distinctly 
many-veined, transverse veinlets close and oblique, 12-15 in. 
long, 3-5 in. wide, narrowed to a clasping base; peduncle 
lateral, stout, about a foot long ; umbel globose, very dense, 
large ; bracts 6-8, oblong, ascending, 2-2J in. long, 
greenish, reddish to dark red, shorter, as long or overtopping 
the flowers ; perianth bright red, segments twice as long as 
tube ; filaments bright red, longer than the perianth, anthers 
yellow ; style as long as stamens ; berry bright red, as big as 
a small cherry. 
Common round Pretoria, Miss Leendertz, 650 ; Irene, 
Miss Leendertz, 920 ; Rietfontein (Zoutpansberg), Miss Leen- 
dertz, 871. Flowering time, October and November. 
The vernacular name is “ Oogzeer-bloem ”. 
Note. — The mostly bright-coloured Amaryllids, often standing in dense 
inflorescences, are of course entomophilous, but nowhere have I found any- 
thing about their being ornithophilous. In a kloof at Rietfontein, Zoutpans- 
berg, I saw the above described Hmmanthus visited by a Sun-Bird. The bird 
placed itself upon the middle of the umbel and turning round and round, it 
sucked the honey from out the flowers. 
4. H. albiflos , Jacq. (F.C. VI., 235, No. 11.) A variety 
at Barberton, Moodies, 4000 ft., Thorncroft, 361. 
