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HEMANTHUS pubescens. 
Hairy Hamanthus. 
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HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Nancisst. Jussieu gen. 54. Div. IJ. Germen inferum. 
AMARYLLIDER. Brown prod. 296. Sect. J. Radix bulbosa. 
Flores spathacei, umbellati, raro solitarii. 
HZEMANTHUS. Supra vol. 3. fol. 181. 
H. pubescens, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, undique hirsutis, umbella fastigiato- 
rotundata, limbo staminibusque erectis. Hort. Kew. 1. 404. 
Hemanthus pubescens. Lin. suppl.193. Thunb. prod. 59. Willd. sp. pl. 
9.26. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.2. 208. Nobis in Curtis’s magaz. fol. 1523 in 
nota. 
Heemanthus albiflos. Jacq. hort. schaenb. 1. 31. t. 59. Willd. sp. pl. 2. 27. 
Nobis in Curtis’s magaz. 1239. Redouté liliac. 338. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 
2, 208. : 
Volia erectits opposita, subquaterna, oblonga, hirsutits villosa, ciliata, in- 
lense virentia, subbreviora scapo, subsemipedalia latitudine subbiunciali, florum 
contemporanea. Scapus tereti-compressus, hirsutus, obliquus. Spatha ine- 
uivalvis, umbelle subcequalis, albido-membranacea, viridi-venosa, pubescens. 
Flores multi, conferti, albi, brevissimé pedicellati, erecti. Cor. infundibuli- 
Sormis, angusta ; limbi lacinie erecta, lineares, triplo longiores tubo. Fila- 
menta corollam und tertid parte feré exsuperantia: anth. fulvo-flavicantes, 
ovato-rotunde. Stylus subcrassior subaltiorque staminibus, erectus ; stigma 
levissime trifidum, patulum. Bacca magnitudine feré pisi, subrotunda, 3-loc., 
miniata, nitida; loculamentis monospermis. 
Native of the Capé of Good Hope. Introduced by the 
late Mr. Francis Masson in 1774. Requires to be kept in 
the greenhouse. Of easy culture. 
The separation of pubescens and albiflos is clearly un- 
founded, as we have proved by the prototype specimen of 
the former in the Banksian Herbarium. 
The drawing was taken from an imported plant which 
flowered at Mr. Lee’s nursery, Hammersmith. 
Leaves opposite, inclining to upright, about 4, oblong, 
rather shaggily furred, fringed at the edge, deep green, 
somewhat shorter than the scape, about half a foot in length, 
with the breadth of about two inches, full grown at the 
time the plant is in flower. Scape compressed, shaggily 
furred, slanting. Spathe unequally valved, about even with 
the umbel, whitishly membranous, green-veined, furred. 
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