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Antholyza.] AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker). 171 
spike lax, many-flowered, a foot long; spathe-valves green, lanceolate, 
the outer reaching 2 in. long; perianth bright-red; tube curved, 
dilated at the middle where the stamens are inserted, 1} in. long, 
% in, diam. at the throat; 8 upper segments of the limb obovate-. 
cuneate, 7 in. long, 3 lower smaller; stamens reaching nearly to the 
tip of the upper segments. Gladiolus antholyzoides, Baker in Journ. 
Bot. 1891, 70; Handb. Trid. 227. 
KatawarRi Region: Transvaal; damp ground near Pretoria, Elliot, 1447! ; 
Near A. revoluta. 
Oxper CXXXV. AMARYLLIDEZ, 
(By J. G. Baxz.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or nearly so. Perianth corolline, 
with or without a funnel-shaped tube above the ovary; segments 6, 
biserial. Stamens usually 6, one opposite each segment of the 
perianth, rarely 3 or numerous ; filaments filiform, free or united in 
a cup; anthers long or short, basifixed or versatile, dehiscing 
usually by introrse longitudinal slits. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; 
placentation axile; style entire; stigmas 3, distinct or confluent ; 
ovules usually numerous and superposed. Fruit usually a 3-valved 
capsule with loculicidal dehiscence, sometimes indehiscent. Seeds 
usually numerous and superposed, with a black membranous or 
crustaceous testa; albumen fleshy, rarely horny ; embryo small, 
central, 
Usually acaulescent herbs, with all the leaves radical, rarely shrubs, with leafy 
stems; rvotstock a tunicated bulb in the largest typical tribe, not so in the 
others ; flowers usually umbellate, sometimes solitary, corymbose or racemose. 
Distris. Genera 64; species 650; spread widely in the temperate and 
tropical regions of both hemispheres. Two tribes out of five restricted to the 
new world, 
Tribe 1. HYPOXIDEZX. Rootstock a tunicated corm, Leaves all radical, dry, 
persistent. Inflorescence not subtended by a spathe. Flowers usually yellow 
and hairy outside. 
I. Pauridia —Stamens 3. ? 
II. Cureuligo.—Stamens 6, Perianth with a tube. Fruit indehiscent. : 
Ill. Hypoxis.—Stamens 6. Perianth without a tube. Fruit a capsule with 
circumscissile dehiscence. 
ibe 2. LEZ. Rootstock a tanicated bulb. Leaves all radical, 
oar weet meee various in colour, never hairy on the outside, usually 
in an umbel subtended by a spathe. Stamens free. 
* Anthers basifized. 
IV. Hessea.—Anthers small, subglobose. Periantn cut down nearly or quite to 
th . : ee 
Wa Gaxpelyis,- dative small, subglobose, Perianth with a distinct tube, 
VI. Anoiganthus.—Anthers oblong, deeply sagittate. Flowers uubellate. : 
VIL. Gethyllis.— Flowers solitary. Perianth hypocrateriform, Stamens uni- 
seriate ; anthers linear. ; : 
VIII. Apodolirion.—Flowers solitary. Perianth funnel-shaped. Stamens bi- 
seriute ; anthers linear. 
