Amaryllis.] AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker.) 208 
superposed ; style filiform, declinate; stigma capitate. Capsule 
globose, bursting irregularly. Seeds few, globose, bulbiform. 
The name Amaryllis is universally given in gardens to the species and numerous 
hybrids of the large American genus Hippeastrum, which differs from Amaryllis 
in its fruit and seeds, 
Distris. Endemic; monotypic. 
1. A. Belladonna (Linn. Sp. Plant. edit. 2,421); bulb the size of a 
swan’s egg ; tunics fibroso-membranous ; Jeaves 7-9, produced after the 
flowers, lorate, bifarious, dull green, 1-1} ft. long, 4-8 in, broad ; 
scape a foot or more long, solid, compressed; flowers 6-12 in an 
umbel, produced in spring in a wild state ; pedicels 1-12 in. long; 
spathe-valves 2, large, deltoid; perianth rose-red or whitish, 
3-33 in. long ; tube under } in, long; segments permanently con- 
nivent, oblong, acute, }- in. broad above the middle; stamens 
rather shorter than the limb; ovary green, oblong; style as long as 
the limb ; capsule globose, membranous, about 1 in. diam. L’Herit. 
Sert. Angl. 12; Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 417 ; Bot. Mag. t. 783; Red. 
Til. t.180; Herb. Amaryll, 275 ; Salish. Gen. 117; Kunth, Enum. 
v. 601; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 95. A. rosea, Lam. Encye. i. 122. 
Callicore rosea, Link. Handb, i. 193. A. pallida, Red. Lil, t. 479. 
A. pudica, Gawl. in Journ. Sci. & Arts ii. 348. Coburgia Belladonna 
and pudica, Herb. in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2113. (C. pallida, Herb. in 
Trans, Hort. Soc. iv, 181. 
Var. 8, A. blanda (Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1450); leaves longer and broader, 
reaching 2-3 ft., sheathing each other at the base; pedicels 2-3 in. long; flowers 
larger, lighter coloured than in the type, and opening wider, with an infundibuli- 
form tube 4-%in. long, and ents 3=4 in. long, 1-1} in. broad. Herb. 
Amaryll. 277, t. 36, fig. 10; Kunth, Enum. vy. 601. Coburgia blanda, Herb. 
in Bot. Mag. sub t. 2113. 
Sourn Arrica : without locality, Thunderg / i 
Coast Reaion : near Cape Town, on the sides of mountains, MacOwan, 2561 ! 
Camps Bay, Burchell, 857! Cape Flats near Wynberg, MacOwan and Bolus, 
Herb. Norm., 296! near Bredasdorp, Kitching ! 
A. pallida, Red., figured also in Bot. Reg. t. 714, is a form with whitish flowers, 
Hemanthus longifolius, Hort. Nymph., mentioned in Kunth, Enum. v. 600, is a 
spurious species made up from a mixture of Amaryllis with Crinum variabile. 
XI. AMMOCHARIS, Herb. 
Perianth infundibuliform, with a short cylindrical tube above 
the ovary, and 6 equal, ascending, oblanceolate-unguiculate segments. 
Stamens inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube, about as long as 
the segments ; filaments filiform, equally divergent; anthers linear- 
oblong, dorsifixed, versatile. Ovary ampulleform, narrowed into a 
distinct neck, 3-celled; ovules numerous, superposed, sessile ; style 
filiform, a little longer than the perianth-segments ; stigma capitate. 
Fruit unknown. 
Rootstock a large tunicated bulb ; leaves many, bifarious, produced before the 
densely umbellate flowers. 
Has. Endemic. 
