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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ Novkmdee, 
H-emantitus Kaleeetebi, inflorescence. "£3 
Africa, for Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea 
—by whom it was found in the Isles de Los, 
growing in open spaces under trees. Mr. W. 
Bull has subsequently imported the same plant 
in considerable quantity. It has been exhibited 
on several occasions from the establishments 
of both these celebrated cultivators, winning 
certificates of merit both at the Eoyal Horti¬ 
cultural and Eoyal Botanic Societies, and both 
Messrs. Veitch and Mr. Bull have published 
illustrations in their New Plant Cafaloguea, that 
which we here introduce, having been obligingly 
lent to us by the Messrs. Veitch. 
The plant produces a globose root-stock, or 
bulb, furnished with stout, fleshy fibres. The 
spotted flower-scape is robust and appears before 
the leaves ; it grows from the side of the crowm, 
whence the oblong leaves afterwards emerge, 
and is marked by copious spots of claret-red on 
a green ground, grows a foot or more in height 
(two to three feet, according to the discoverer), 
and supports a large, round umbel, 8 in. in 
diameter, consisting of from fifty to a hundred 
bright vermilion-red flowers, the perianth of 
which has a cylindrical tube half-an-inch long, 
and six narrow, spreading linear segments, an 
inch long, surrounding the bright red erecto- 
patent filaments, which are as long as the 
perianth segments, and each tipped by a deep 
yellow anther. The leaves are nearly a foot 
long, bright green on both sides, wfith a dotted 
base. Its closest botanical affinities are with 
TI. multijlorus and H. Mannii. It is a bril¬ 
liantly ornamental plant, flowering freely 
during the early summer months, its flowers 
being exceedingly effective, on account of their 
glowing colour, and the large globose heads in 
wdrich they are produced ; indeed, the plant 
again becomes very ornamental towards the 
autumn, as its flower-heads are succeeded 
