Hamantivs, as at present defined, has no spontaneous 
species without the continent of Africa; and there only 
within or near the tropics. Its nearest kindred in the cor- 
responding climates of Asia and America are comprized 
under Crinum. In Europe one or two yellow species of Ama- 
RYLLIs are its nearest relatives in that quarter of the world, 
Hamantuus dubius of Humboldt and Bonpland is an 
evident anomaly in the group; and a plant we suspect 
not reducible to any established genus, without compli- 
cating the character of the same, so as to perplex more 
than an additional new name will encumber. “We believe it 
to be a congener of the Crinum urceolatum of the Flora 
Peruviana, another heterogeneously assorted species. 
- Coarctatus was introduced from the Cape of Good 
Hope by Mr. Masson, in 1795, 
Bulb oblong-ovate, compressed, bifariously tunicated, 
minas in two opposite compactly imbricated series, 
broad, fleshy, truncated, outermost shortest. Leaves 
2-3, posterior to the inflorescence, broadly lorate, wide 
pointed, smooth-edged, spotless, nearly flat, divergent, a 
foot or morein length. Stipules 2, radical, one on each 
side next the scape, broad as the foliage but very short, 
party-coloured, having the appearance of nascent leaves, 
but are membranous, and decay without elongating. Scape 
much compressed, green, thickly speckled with crimson 
dots, 629 inches high. Leaflets of the spathe 6-8, large, 
upright, of a dark orange-scarlet colour, oblong, of unequal 
breadth, veined, obtuse, even with the numerous-flowered 
pedicled crowded wmbel, Corolla narrow-funnelform, white 
below, pale vermilion above; tube short, dilated upwards 
with six small protuberant corners; base of the limb con- 
tracted and narrower than the mouth of the tube; segments 
linear, turbinately connivent, obtuse, concave at the upper 
part, equal, nearly an inch long. Filaments subulate, up- 
right, of the same colour as the border or limb, which they. 
overtop by the distance of about one third of their whole 
length. Style upright, equal to the stamens, and of the 
same colour: stigma obtuse. . 
The drawing was taken last autumn from a plant in 
Mr, Griffin’s conservatory at South Lambeth. By no means 
common in our collections. Does not require any peculiar 
care, and will thrive in a greenhouse. 
