404 CXXXVII. AMARYLLIDEÆ (BAKER). [Crinum. 
38. C. giganteum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t.169. Bulb globose, 5-6 in. 
diam.; neck short. Leaves 12 or more to a bulb, lanceolate, mem- 
branous, laxly veined, 2-3 ft. long, 3—4 in. broad at the middle, narrowed 
gradually to the point and to a narrow base. Peduncle stout, green, 
compressed, 2-3 ft. long. Flowers generally 4-6, rarely 8-12 in an 
umbel; pedicels none or very short ; spathe-valves ovate, green, 3—4 in. 
long. Perianth-tube slender, curved, 5-7 in. long ` segments oblong, 
pure white, 3—4 in. long, ascending, much imbricated, 1-1} in. broad. 
Filaments pure white, 1 in. shorter than the perianth-segments ; 
anthers linear, 4—3 in. long. Style reaching to the tip of the perianth- 
segments.—Red. Lil. t. 181; Bury, Hexand. t. 17 ; Hook. in Bot. Mag. 
t. 5205; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 91. ©. vanillodorum, Welw. 
ex Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, 196; N. E. Br. in Ill. Hort. 1886, 
t. 617. C. petiolatum, var. spectabile, Herb. Amaryllid. 260. Amaryllis 
gigantea, Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 226. A. latifolia, Lam. Encye. 
i. 124. <A. candida, Tratt. Tab. t. 488. 
Upper Guinea, Sierra Leone, Babingion! Ashantee : Assin-yan-Coomassie, 
Cummins, 158! and without precise locality, Lanyon! Lagos: Eppah (Epé), on the 
Kradu Lagoon, Barter, 3264! and without precise locality, Moloney ! Niger Terri- 
tory: Nupe, Barter, 1500! 1503! 
Lower Guinea, Gaboon: Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyauz, 359 ! Angola : 
Golungo Alto, 1000-2400 ft., Welwitsch, 4020! 4021! Congo, cultivated specimen, 
Linden! 
South Central. Monbuttu: Munza, Schweinfurth, 3487 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Zomba, Buchanan ! 
Magomero, Meller ! 
Var. nobile, Baker. Peduncle and flower suffused with a tinge of red.— C. nobile, 
Bull, Cat. 1888, 21 with fig. 
Country not stated, 
10. AMMOCHARIS, Herb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 727. 
Perianth funnel-shaped ; tube short above the ovary, cylindrical ` 
segments 6, equal, ascending, oblong, unguiculate. Stamens 6, inserted 
at the throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments filiform, about as long as 
the segments, equally divergent; anthers linear-oblong, dorsifixed, 
versatile. Ovary ampulliform, narrowed into a distinct neck, 3-celled ; 
ovules many, superposed; style filiform; stigma capitate. Fruit a 
loculicidal, membranous capsule. Seeds globose.— Rootstock a large 
tunicated bulb. Leaves many, bifarious, not contemporary with the 
flowers. Peduncle stout. Flowers many in a dense umbel. 
Species 3, all found in South Africa. 
1. A. taveliana, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Branden. XXXL. 
214. Bulb very large; tunics horizontally truncate at the apex. 
Leaves oblong, acute, 15 in, or more long, above 2 in. broad.  Peduncle 
8-10 in. long, nearly 1 in. diam. Umbel dense, globose, 4-5 1m. diam. ; 
pedicels 1} in, long; spathe-valves oblong, 1 in. broad. Perianth-tube 
