Tas. 5218. 
CYRTANTHUS (GASTRONEMA) saneurnevs. 
Red-flowered Cyrtanthus. 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE®.—HEXANDRIA Monoaynta. 
Gen, Char. Perigonium superum, corollaceum, elongato-tubuloso-infundibu- 
lare, limbo 6-fidum curvatum, interdum parum ventricosum ; laciniis brevibus, 
subequilongis, multinerviis; exterioridus calloso-acutis ; interioribus latioribus, 
obtusis. Stamina 6, supra medium tubi libera, recta (in Gastronemate conni- 
ventia, 3 deflexa), inclusa, alterna longiora. Anthere lineares, dorso infra medium 
affixee, mobiles. Ovarium inferum, trigonum, triloculare ; ovu/a in loculis crebra, 
biseriata, funiculata, horizontalia (in siceo adscendentia, Endl.). Columna stylina 
filiformis, erecta vel declinata, stamina superans, exserta. Stigma leviter trifidum. 
Capsula trigono-ovata, trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina plurima, paleaceo- 
compressa, testa nigra.—Herbze Capenses, bulbifere, scapigere. Bulbus tuni- 
catus. Folia elongata, angusta, plana vel subcanaliculata. Scapus teretiusculus 
vel compressiusculus, fistulosus. Spatha 2-polyphylla, uni-multiflora. Flores pedi- 
cellati, bracteis linearibus scariosis interstincti, sepée penduli. Kth. 
ae 
CyRTANTHUS (GASTRONEMA) sanguineus ; foliis solitariis lineari-spathulatis ob- 
tusis viridibus, caule unifloro longioribus, spatha diphylla tubo perianthii 
eequali, flore sessili vel pedunculato suberecto, tubo tereti in faucem obco- 
nicam ampliato, limbi patuli recurvi laciniis oblongis equalibus concolo- 
ribus. Lindl. 
GASTRONEMA sanguineum. Lindl. in Journ. of Hort. Soc. of Lond. v. 3. p. 315 
(with a woodcut). 
This is, as Dr. Lindley says, who first named and described 
it, a very handsome plant, deserving general cultivation, even in 
the most select collections. It is a native of Caffraria, and was 
imported by Messrs. Backhouse, the eminent nurserymen of 
York, and presented by them to the Horticultural Society of 
London in 1846. Dr. Lindley adopts the genus Gastronema of 
Herbert, which scarcely differs from Cyrtanthus but in the “ fila- 
ments of the stamens being connivent, of which two are de- 
flexed ;” so that it is now generally considered a section of Cyr- 
tanthus. It flowered in the greenhouse at Kew in August of 
the present year (1860). 
Descr. The bulbous root we have not seen. The /eaves are 
dark green, scarcely glaucous, radical, lanceolate, tapering into a 
DECEMBER lst, 1860. 
