406 CXXXVII. AMARYLLIDE (BAKER). | Verine. 
1. N. undulata, Herb. App. 19. Bulb ovoid, #-1 in. diam. ; 
tunics pale, membranous. Leaves 4—6, contemporary with the flowers, 
linear, bright green, 1-14 ft. long. Peduncle slender, terete, as long as 
the leaves. Flowers 8-12 in a centrifugal umbel; pedicels slender, 
1-1} in. long; spathe-valves as long as the pedicels. Perianth-limb 
pale pink, 2-1 in. long ; segments oblanceolate, much crisped. Stamens 
declinate, as long as the perianth. Capsule deeply lobed, + in. diam. ; 
cells 1-seeded.—Kunth, Enum. v. 621. Amaryllis undulata, Linn. 
Syst. Nat. edit. 12, 237. Imhofia undulata, Kuntze, Revis. Gen. 704; 
Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 46. 
Lower Guinea. Hereroland, Belck, 59B (ex Schinz). 
Widely spread in South Africa. 
No specimen from Tropical Africa at Kew. 
2. N. lucida, Herb. Amaryllid. 283, t. 36, fig. 3. Bulb globose, 
3—4 in. diam., with brown membranous tunics produced along its neck. 
Leaves 6-8, contemporary with the flowers, linear, bright green, 1 ft. 
or more long, 4—2 in. broad, scabrous on the edge. Peduncle stout, 
ancipitous, 3-8 in. long. Flowers 20-40 in a centripetal umbel; 
pedicels stiff, moderately stout, 3-4 in. long; spathe-valves ovate- 
lanceolate. Perianth-limb 14-2 in. long, pale or bright red ; segments 
oblanceolate, } in. broad, hardly at all crisped. Stamens and style 
declinate, as long as the perianth. Capsule depresso-globose, 4—4 in. 
diam.—Kunth, Enum. v. 620. Amaryllis laticoma, Ker in Bot. Reg. 
t. 497. Imhofia laticoma, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 46. 
Lower Guinea. Hereroland and Amboland (ex Schinz). 
Also in the Kalahari region of South Africa. 
No specimen from Tropical Africa at Kew. 
13. PANCRATIUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 738. 
Perianth-tube cylindrical, funnel-shaped at the apex; segments 
linear or lanceolate, equal, spreading. Stamens inserted at the throat of 
the perianth-tube ; filaments united in a conspicuous cup at the base, 
filiform above it; anthers linear, versatile. Ovary 3-celled; ovules 
many in a cell, superposed; style long, filiform; stigma capitate, 
obscurely 3-lobed, Capsule loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds angled by 
pressure; testa black.—Rootstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves sessile, 
linear or lorate. Peduncle solid. Flowers white, many or few in an 
umbel; outer spathe-valves 2, lanceolate. 
Species 14, widely spread through the subtemperate and tropical regions of the 
Old World. 
Leaves much twisted . 2 : S S S . 1. P. tortuosum. 
Leaves not twisted. 
Staminal cup 1 in. long . 4 : S S Ee E a trianthum. 
Staminal cup 2 in. long . : - . . 3. P. maximum. 
1. P. tortuosum, Herb. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, iv. 28. Bulb 
globose, 13-2 in, diam., with a long cylindrical neck. Leaves 6-12, linear, 
