Tap. 6547. 
NERINE pritrrorta. 
Native of the Orange Free State. 
Nat. Ord. AMaryLLipacem.—Sub-order AMARYLLIDER. 
Genus Nexine, Herbert ; (Kunth Enum. vol. v. p. 615.) 
NERINE filifolia ; bulbo parvo ovoideo, foliis 6-10 synanthiis subulatis flaccidis 
glabris scapo brevioribus facie canaliculatis, scapo gracili tereti subpedali 
glanduloso-puberulo, umbellis centripetalibus 8-10-floris, spathe valvis parvis 
lanceolatis, pedicellis glandulosis flore sepe longioribus, ovario globoso profunde 
lobato, perianthii limbi uncialis rosei segmentis anguste oblanceolatis crispatis, 
genital tian perianthio subsquilongis, capsulis orbicularibus profunde lobatis, 
seminibus in loculo 2-3. 
This pretty little new Nerine belongs to the group called 
Distorte by Herbert, and in its centripetal inflorescence 
agrees with N, fleewosa and pulchella, A narrow-leaved 
form of the latter, with the same glandular pedicels, dis- 
covered by Mr. Thos. Cooper in the Orange Free State, will 
be found figured in Saunders’s Refugium Botanicum, Tab. 
329. The present plant, which is also from the Orange 
Free State, is much less robust in habit than Mr. Cooper’s, 
and differs essentially from all the species already known 
by its numerous weak slender filiform leaves. We received 
it at Kew from Mr. Chas. Ayres, Seedsman and Florist, of 
Cape Town. Our drawing was made from specimens that 
flowered at Kew in October, 1880. I do not think that 
Nerine can be well separated as a genus from Ammocharis 
and Lycoris. 
Descr. Bulbs ovoid, densely czespitose, under an inch in 
diameter ; outer tunics brown, very thin. Leaves six to 
ten from a bulb, contemporary with the flowers, slender, 
subulate, grass-green, glabrous, six or eight inches long at 
the flowering time, weak in texture, rounded on the back, 
channelled down the face. Scape about a foot long, slender, 
MARCH Ist, 1881. ie 
