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tuber or corm. Leaves all radical, usually plicate. Flowers solitary or 
many, spicate, yellow. 
Species 12, spread throngh the Tropical and Subtropical regions of the old world 
1. C. gallabatensis, Schweinf. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
ser. 2, Bot. i. 266. Tuber oblong, perennial, 14-2 in. long; root-fibres 
many, cylindrical. Outer rudimentary leaves membranous or splitting 
into fibres; produced leaves 3-4, linear, plicate vertically, subpetiolate, 
1-2 ft. long, EE in. broad, more or less pilose. Flowers solitary ; 
peduncle short, hidden; tube-like beak of the ovary 14-2 in. long; 
bracts linear or lanceolate; limb 4—? in. long; segments lanceolate ; 
3 outer hairy outside and tinged with green. Stamens half as long as 
the perianth-limb ; anthers lanceolate, as long as the filiform filaments. 
Style subulate ; stigmas united. Fruit oblong, sessile, crowned by the 
tube-like beak. Seeds black, with a white fleshy strophiole.—Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xvii. 123. Gethyllis pilosa, Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. 
EE 172. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea: Farana, on the River Niger, 3300 ft., Scott- 
Elliot, 5374! Gold Coast: Upper Volta ; Salaga, Krause! Togoland: Bismarck- 
burg, Büttner, 381! Niger Territory : Nupe ; Ilorin, Rowland ! and without pre- 
cise locality, Barter, 1506 ! 
Wile Land. Galabat: bank of the River Gendua, Schweinfurth, 39! Jur: 
Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, ser. iii. 220! by the River Wau, Schweinfurth, 1054! 
Somaliland, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 
Lower Guinea, Angola: Golungo Alto, Welwitsch! Lower Congo: Lutete, 
2000 ft., Hens, 352! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; in an Elephant marsh, 
near the River Nsessi, Scott ! 
3. CRYPTOSTEPHANUS, Welw.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. 
Pl. iii. 718. 
Perianth-tube subcylindrical; segments 6, ovate or oblong, much 
shorter than the tube. Corona of 12 linear fleshy scales inserted at the 
throat of the perianth-tube. Stamens 6, inserted in one row above the 
middle of the perianth-tube ; filaments short ; anthers oblong or linear. 
Ovary 3-celled; ovules many in a cell, superposed; style filiform ; 
stigma capitate. Fruit a globose berry. Seeds turgid, 1-2 in a cell. 
—Rootstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves sessile, lorate, obtuse. Flowers 
small, many in a dense umbel; spathe-valves several, lanceolate, 
reflexing. 
Endemic. 
Stamens and style exserted from the perianth-tube . 1. C. hemanthoides. 
Stamens and style included in the perianth-tube . , 2 C. densiflorus. 
1. C. heemanthoides, Pax in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 142, t. 7, figs. 5-7. 
Rootstock and leaves unknown. Peduncle short, stout, nearly 1 in. 
diam. Flowers dark purple, more than 100 in a dense umbel; spathe- 
valves several, linear, reflexing, nearly 1 in. long; pedicels }-1 in. 
long. Perianth-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, ł in. long ; segments of 
