192 AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker). [ Hessea. 
ovary green, globose ; style as long as the stamens, cylindrical from 
an ovoid base ; capsule depresso-globose, membranous, deeply 3-lobed. 
Strumaria spiralis, Zeyher, exsic. non Ait. 
WEstTEEN Rearon: Little Namaqualand ; Hardeveld, Zeyher, 1662 ! 
§. H. gemmata (Benth. Gen. Plant. iii. 721); bulb globose, 1 in. 
diam., with pale brown membranous tunics, produced 13-2 in. above 
its neck; leaves 2-3, developed after the flowers, lorate, flaccid, 
ft. or more long, }—4 in. broad, pilose towards the margin ; peduncle 
stout, 3-1 ft. long; flowers 10-20; pedicels 1-3 in. long; spathe- 
valves 2, lanceolate, greenish, reflexing; perianth-limb j{-4 in. long, 
cut down to the base; segments oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 
3-nerved in the centre; stamens nearly as long as the perianth- 
segments ; ovary green, globose, », in. diam.; style. as long as the 
stamens, with a slightly dilated conical base ; capsule depresso-globose, 
membranous, deeply 3-lobed, 4 in. diam. Baker, Handb. Amarylilid. 
23.  Strumaria gemmata, Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1620; Potr. Encye. 
Suppl. v. 259. Imhofia gemmata, Herb. Amaryll. 291; Kunth, 
Enum. v. 628. I. burehelliana, Herb. Amaryllid. 290, t. 29, jig. 5. 
Kunth, Enum. v. 627. JI. bergiana, Kunth, loc. cit. Hessea 
burchelliana, Benth. Gen. Plant. loc. cit. 
Coast Recton : Uniondale Div: ; Lange Kloof, Burchell, 4954! 4967! 4978! 
eee Div.; Grass Ridge, between Coega R. and Sunday R., Zeyher: 
CenTRAL Recion: Graaff Reinet Div.; Sneeuw Berg, 5000 ft., Bolus, 1817 ! 
Colesburg Div. ; near Hondeblats River, Burchell, 2702! between Riet Fontein 
and Plettenbergs Beacon, Burchell, 2727! and without precise locality, Bolus, 
1817! Albert Div., Cooper, 575! Drége, 3517! Hopetowa Div., Burchell, 2683. 
V. CARPOLYZA, Salisb. 
Perianth with a short funnel-shaped tube above the ovary ; seg- 
ments linear-oblong, subequal, patent, laxly 3-nerved in the middle. 
Stamens inserted in the perianth-tube; filaments short, filiform ; 
anthers subglobose, minute, basifixed. Ovary globose, 3-celled ; 
ovules few in a cell, superposed; style filiform, tricuspidate at the 
stigmatose apex. Capsule globose, membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. 
Seeds few in a cell, subglobose, greenish, 
Disteis, Monotypic, endemic, 
1. C. spiralis (Salisb. Parad. t. 63); bulb ovoid, }-2 in. diam., with 
a long neck; tunics brown, membranous; leaves 4-6, contemporary 
with the flowers, subulate, very slender, 2-4 in. long; peduncle fili- 
form, spirally twisted, 2—4 in. long ; flowers 1-3, rarely 4-6 ; pedicels 
1-2 in. long; spathe-valves 2, small, linear, membranous; perianth 
pinkish-white ; tube 4} in. long ; segments 3 in, long ; stamens emerg- 
ing but little from the perianth-tube ; ovary globose, 1; in. diam. ; cap- 
sule in. diam. Salish. Gen. 119; Herb. Amaryll. 292, t. 29, fig. 
9; Baker, Handb, Amaryllid. 23. Hessea spiralis, Berg. in Linnea 
1826, 252. Strumaria spiralis, Ait. Hort. Kew. edit, 2, ii. 213; 
