Plate 159.
CYRTANTHUS Galpini.
Transvaal.
Amaryllidaceae. Tribe Amarylleae.
Cyrtanthus, Ait.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 729.
Cyrtanthus Galpinii, Baker in Kew Bull. 1892, p. 83; Fl. Cap. vol. vi. p. 227.
We have pleasure in figuring for the first time this charming little Cyrtanthus from the Barberton District of the Transvaal. According to Mr. G. J. Hofmeyr, B.Sc., of the Forest Department, who collected the flowers, the plants are found growing in long grass at Kaapse Hoop. The plant is subsocial, and forms conspicuous pink patches in the veld. Mr. Hofmeyr informs us that the flowers at Barberton are scarlet, and not alizams pink (R. C. S), as in the Kaapse Hoop plants.