1878. ] 
HiEJIANTHUS mannii. 
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HtEMANTIIUS MANNII. 
GTpN this plant we have one of a set of hand- 
p some stove bulbs, represented by the old 
Hcemanthus multiflorus , which produce a 
roundish head of bright red Amaryllidaceous 
flowers. The plant of which an illustration 
is annexed, was introduced to our gardens last 
year by Mr. W. Bull, from Liberia, through his 
collector, Mr. Carder, and was flowered and ex¬ 
hibited by him during the past spring. At 
South Kensington it received a First-class 
Certificate under the name of II. rupestris. 
It has a large globose root-stock, with many 
fleshy fibres. The flower-scape is about a foot 
high, produced before the leaves, and is solid, 
terete, and striped with purple ; at the top it 
produces an umbel of from 30 to 40 flowers, 
