384 CXXXVII. AMARYLLIDEZ (BAKER). [Crypiostephanus. 
the limb obloag, acute, half as long as the tube, spreading or reflexing. 
Scales linear, yellow, half as long as the perianth-segments. Stamens 
inserted above the middle of the perianth-tube; anthers lanceolate, 
exserted from the perianth-tube. Style long, exserted from the 
perianth- tube. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Taita, Hildebrandt, 2578. 
No specimen at Kew, 
2. C. densiflorus, Welw. ex Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, 193, t. 197. 
Rootstock a bulb, with membranous tunics. Leaves 6—8, contemporary 
with the flowers, lorate, obtuse, erect, glabrous, glaucous, sessile, 1 ft, 
long, }-} in. broad. Peduncle stout, 2-angled, about as long as the 
leaves. Flowers 20-30 in a dense umbel ; spathe-valves many, unequal, 
lanceolate, green, reflexing, under 1 in. long; pedicels very short. 
Perianth dark purple, 2 in. long; tube subcylindrical, more or less 
curved, 4 in. long; segments of the limb ovate, 4 in. long. Scales 
linear, minute. Anthers oblong, nearly sessile, oblong, inserted above 
the middle of the tube. Style short, not exserted from the perianth- 
tube. Berry E in. diam.—Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 1; Engl. Hoch- 
gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 170. 
Ee Guinea. Angola: mountains of Houilla, 4000-5000 ft., Welwitsch, 
4027! 
No specimen at Kew. 
4. CYRTANTHUS, Ait.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 729. 
Perianth funnel-shaped; tube narrow, with a naked throat; seg- 
ments 6, subequal, shorter than the tube. Stamens inserted below the 
throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments filiform, sometimes very short; 
anthers oblong, dorsifixed, versatile. Ovary ovoid, 3-celled ; ovules 
many, superposed ; style long, filiform; stigma distinctly or indistinctly 
3-lobed. Capsule oblong, membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds 
flat, black, winged at the base.—Rootstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves 
rather fleshy, flaccid, linear or lorate. Flowers umbellate, rarely 
solitary, erect or pendulous, red, yellow or white; spathe-valves 2-4, 
lanceolate. 
Species 20, the others all South African. 
* MONELLA. Leaves sessile, linear. Perianth-tube 
cylindrical, 
The only Tropical African species S S S . 1. CG Welwitschit. 
** GASTRONEMA, Perianth-tube much dilated on the 
upper half, 
The only species S S S 2 2 S . 2. O. sanguineus. 
1. C. Welwitschii, Hiern ex Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, 197. 
Bulb ovoid, 1 in. diam.; tunics brown, membranous. Leaves about 4, 
contemporary with the flowers, linear, glaucous, 1-14 ft. long, 4-4 in. 
