202 AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker). [Crinwm. 
edit. Schult. 302, non Roxb.; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 98. Ama- 
ryllis longifolia, Linn. Sp. Plant. 421; Att. Hort. Kew.i. 419; Jacq. 
Te, t. 362; Red. Lil. t. 347; Gawl. in Bot. Mag. ¢. 661; Bot. Reg. 
tt. 303 and 546. O. capense, Herb. Amaryllid. 269; Kunth, Enum. 
v. 579. Amaryllis capensis, Miller, Gard. Dict. edit. 8, No. 12. A. 
bulbisperma, Burm. Prodr, Cap.9. Crinum riparium, Herb. App. 23. 
Coast Recion: near Cape Town, between the foot of Lion Mountain and the 
sea-shore, Thunberg! Cathcart Div.; between Windvogel Berg and Zwart Kei 
3000-4000 ft., Drége, 4519b ! 
CrentraL Reaion : Colesberg Div., Shaw! 
Western Reeron: Little Namaqualand; near the mouth of the Orange R. 
below 600 ft., Drége, 2653 ! 
Katanari Region: Hopetown Div. ; inundated banks of Orange River, Bur- 
chell, 2662! Bechuanaland ; between Hamapery, near Kuruman, and Kosi Fon- 
tein, Burchell, 2525! 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; Gekau, below 4000 ft., Drége, 4519a! Natal; Klip 
River, 3500-4500 ft., Sutherland ! : 
It is the most hardy in English gardens, and the most extensively cultivated 
of any species of the genus, and is one of the parents of numerous hybrids, of 
which the following have received Latin names:—C. Goweni, a hybrid with 
zeylanicum; C. Mitchamia, with pedunculatum ; C. Herberti, with scabrum; C. 
Puseye, with latifolium; C. Wallichii, with careyanum; C. Seymouri, with 
lineare; C. Rowburghti, with defivum; C. altaclara, with erubescens; CO. Shep- 
herdi, with cruentum ; and C. Powellii, with Moorei. OC. Lesemanni, Beck. in 
Wein. Illust. Gart. Zeit. 1876, 125, t. 1, is identical with C. Powellit. 
8. C. Macowani (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1878, ix. 298); bulb glo- 
bose, reaching a diameter of 9-10 inches, with a neck 6-9 in. long; 
leaves 12-15 to a bulb, spreading, lorate, bright green, thin in texture, 
2-3 ft. long, 3-4 in. broad in the middle, slightly scabrous on the 
margin; peduncles often 2-3 to a bulb, green, compressed, 2-3 ft. 
long, an inch thick at the top ; flowers 10-15 to an umbel ; spathe- 
valves very large; pedicels 1-2 in. long; perianth-tube curved, 
cylindrical, greenish, 3-4 in. long; limb funnel-shaped, of about 
equal length, with oblong, very acute pinkish, segments 1-13 in. broad 
at the middle; stamens red, deelinate, a little shorter than the 
perianth-segments ; anthers about 3 in. long; ovary oblong, } in. 
long ; style not longer than the stamens, Bot. Mag. t. 6381; Handb. 
Amaryllid. 94, 
EasTeen ReGion: Transkei; near Butterworth, MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. 
LA reine Griqualand East, MacOwan, 2122! Natal; Upper Tugela, Wood, 
Both this and C. Moorei are closely allied to the Asiatic C. latifolium, Linn. 
C. zeylanicum, Linn., which differs by its shorter pedicels and perianth-segments 
— a distinct keel of red down the centre, may perhaps also occur within the 
ape area, 
X. AMARYLLIS, Linn. 
Perianth infundibuliform, with a short funnel-shaped tube and 6 
subequal large, oblong, acute, ascending segments. Stamens inserted 
at the throat of the perianth-tube; filaments long, filiform, declinate ; 
anthers linear, versatile. Ovary oblong, 3-celled; ovules many, 
