Chris, The plant with a solitary subterranean bulb is interesting. Snijman (1984) says nothing about the bulbs of H. albiflos growing above or below ground but the commonly seen material in California grows with bulbs naturally above the soil. Is your Port Elizabeth plant representative of a population or is it just an odd individual? Pertinent to recent discussions, Snijman has this to say about variation in pubescence in H. albiflos: "*Recent collections have shown however, that the entire range, from hairy to glabrous forms, exists within a very small area*." This demonstrates the important point made here by various writers that often a species cannot be characterized by a single individual that is known in cultivation. Some variation seems "impossible" until it is witnessed in the field. Dylan Hannon