ready noticed. ‘To this mass is generally added the express 
ed juice of the bulb of Hamanruus (BRunsviata) toxicarius, 
an alkali supposed to add most powerfully to the activity of 
the poison, and known in the colony by the Dutch name 
of Bolletje’s Gift (bulb-poison.)” 
The bloom of this species, which is of a dull pink, dif- 
fuses a grateful fragrance, not unlike that of new-made hay. 
The umbel which at first is hemispherical and close, by the 
time the fruit is ripened, has become loose and completely 
globular, having lengthened the footstalks to twice or thrice 
the length they were at when in flower. The stem, as is 
usual in the genus, is dwarf in proportion to the rest of the 
plant. 
Bulb tunicate, ovately oblong, coated by a thick rind 
formed by innumerable thin fibrously membranous integu- 
ments (the probable accumulation of ages) of the thickness 
of aiman’s arm or more, and deeper than the stem is high. 
Leaves several or many, bifarious, uprightly spreading, lo- 
rately elongated, lanceolate and taper-pointed, glaucous, 
oblique, coming after the flowers. Scape robust, hardly 
longer than the umbel, roundedly compressed and flatter on 
one side, pale and glaucous. Spathe 2-valved, even with 
the footstalks, valves ovately oblong, taper-pointed, reflex- 
ed; footstalks filiform, 3-cornered, rather thicker than the 
tube of a sparrow-quill, green, shining, clavately continuous 
with the germen, flowerbearing about 2 inches or little 
more in Jength, fruitbearing from 4 to 6 incheslong. Um- 
bel numerously flowered: corolla about 14 inch in diameter, 
revolutely funnelform, regular; tube stiff, straight, thick, 
greenish white, about the length of the germen, more than 
twice shorter than the limb; limb 6-parted, turbinate and 
revolute, segments standing starwisely apart, narrowly li- 
gulate, even in length, pointed, 3 outer ones rather the nar- 
rowest, convolutely channelled, with a barbedly-hooked 
point slightly downy at the base, iner ones flatter and ob- 
soletely mucronate. Stamens protruding, even, uprightly 
spreading, slightly curved; filaments white, subulately fili- 
form, prominently decurrent along the tube: anthers ba- 
lanced and traversing, narrowly and clongatedly oblong, 
at first pink, afterwards of purplish black; pollen cream- 
coloured. Style even with the stamens, 14 inch long, } 
longer than the corolla, from upright inclining, slender, fili- 
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