Ammocharis. | CXXXVII. AMARYLLIDEZ (BAKER). 405 
above $in. long ; segments oblong-lanceolate, acute, 2 in. long. Capsule 
the size of a pigeon’s egg ; pericarp thin, membranous. 
Lower Guinea. Hereroland, Belch, 48a. 
Also Great Namaqualand. 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
11. BRUNSVIGIA, Heist.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 728. 
Perianth funnel-shaped, straight or slightly curved; tube very 
short; segments lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, subequal. Stamens 
long, declinate, inserted in the perianth-tube ; filaments filiform, free; 
anthers oblong, versatile. Ovary turbinate, 3-celled; ovules few or 
many in a cell; style filiform, declinate; stigma capitate. Fruit 
turbinate, acutely angled. Seeds green, globose, with a distinct funi- 
cule.—Rootstock a large tunicated bulb. Leaves lorate or lingulate, 
produced after the flowers. Peduncle stout, solid. Flowers bright red, 
many in an umbel ; spathes 2-valved. 
Species 10, the others all South African. 
1. B. Kirkii, Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 99. Bulb and leaves 
unknown. Apex of peduncle above 1 in. diam. Flowers 30-40 in an 
umbel ; spathe-valves lingulate, reflexed, 14 in. long; pedicels acutely 
angled, stiffly erect, 4—1 ft. long. Perianth 1 in. long; tube short; 
segments lanceolate. Filaments longer than the perianth-segments ; 
anthers small, oblong. Capsule turbinate, acutely angled, $—3 in. long. 
Seeds 1 in a cell, globose, green, the size of a small pea. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usagara mountains, Kirk! British 
Central Africa: Stevenson Road, between Lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika, 4000- 
5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8276 ! 
An unnamed species of Brunsvigia is stated by Dr. Schinz (Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 
App. iii. 47) to occur both in Amboland and Hereroland. 
12. NERINE, Herb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 728. 
Perianth funnel-shaped, cut down nearly or quite to the ovary, 
erect or rather decurved; segments equal, oblanceolate, falcate, usually 
more or less crisped. Stamens inserted at the base of the perianth- 
segments ; filaments filiform, thickened at the base, suberect or declinate, 
3 shorter ; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, versatile. Ovary globose, 3-lobed ; 
ovules few in a cell, superposed ; style filiform, straight or declinate ; 
stigma obscurely tricuspidate. Capsule globose, deeply 3-lobed, mem- 
branous. Seeds 1 or few in a cell, globose.— Rootstock a tunicated 
bulb. Leaves usually linear, produced with or a little after the flowers. 
Umbels few or many-flowered ; spathe-valves 2, lanceolate. Flowers 
pale or deep red.—Jmhojfia, Heist. 
Species 15, all South African. 
Peduncle long, slender, terete : . 1. N. undulata, 
Pedunele short, stout, angled S : : e . 2 N. lucida. 
