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Fruit capsular . : e S - 8. BUPHANE, 
Seeds globose, with a green testa, 
Fruit indehiscent. 
Perianth-tube long ` . : . . , 9. CRINUM. 
Perianth-tube short . . S . . 10. AMMOCHARIS, 
Fruit a 3—valved capsule, 
Capsule turbinate, acutely angled . . . 11. Brunsviera. 
Capsule globose, obtusely angled . : , 12, NERINE. 
Filaments united in a basal cup. 
Seeds flat, with a black or brown testa i . 13. PANCRATIUM. 
Seeds globose, with a green testa. ` . 14. HYMENOCALLIS, 
TRIBE III. Vellosieæ. Undershrubs or herbs, with solitary flowers, glandular 
outside, Rootstock none. 
The only genus . . P e e e . e 15. VELLOSIA, 
1. HYPOXIS, Linn., Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI iii. 717. 
Perianth cut down to the ovary; segments 6, subequal, spreading. 
Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the perianth-segments ; filaments 
short, subulate; anthers linear or lanceolate, basifixed or obscurely 
dorsifixed. Ovary clavate or turbinate, 3-celled, not rostrate ` ovules 
superposed, few or many in a cell; style short, columnar. Stigmas 3, 
connate or distinct. Capsule usually 3-celled, membranous, splitting 
round the middle or into 3 valves. Seeds small, globose ; testa crusta- 
ceous, usually black and shining; hilum lateral, more or less distinctly 
beaked ; embryo included in the fleshy or farinaceous albumen,—Root- 
stock a tuber or corm. Leavesall radical, persistent, linear or ensiform. 
Flowers solitary, corymbose or racemose, in the Tropical African species 
yellow and tinged with green and hairy outside. 
Species 60, spread widely through both hemispheres, concentrated in South Africa. 
Flowers solitary. 
H. monanthos. 
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2. H. kilimandscharica. 
H. Schimperi. 
Perianth-segments ¢ in. long . 
Perianth-segments + in. long . : . 
Perianth-segments 4—4 in. long . . : 
Flowers corymbose. 
Flowers small. 
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4. H. angustifolia. 
Leaves not rigid e e . . 
Leaves rigid. 
Leaves subterete . i : 4 . H. canaliculata. 
. H. malosana, 
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Leaves narrowly linear S mmer 
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Leaves linear . 
Flowers larger. 
Peduncle short e S 
Peduncle long e . 
Flowers racemose. 
Raceme lax. 
Leaves 1—4 in. broad. 
Bracts minute : : 
Bracts large . ° : 
. H. villosa, 
. H. gregoriana. 
. 10. H. nyasica. 
. 11. H. angolensis. 
