204 AMARYLLIDEH (Baker). [Ammocharis. 
1, A. falcata (Herb. App. 17; Amaryll. 241); bulb ovoid, 
reaching a diameter of 6-9 in., not produced into a neck ; tunies 
very numerous, brown, membranous ; leaves 6-12, bifarious, lorate, 
spreading, produced before the flowers, in summer or autumn, 
reaching a length of 1-2 ft., about an inch broad, green, glabrous ; 
peduncle stout, lateral, ancipitous, 4-1 ft. long; flowers 20-40 
in an umbel, fragrant, bright red, produced in December in the 
wild plant; pedicels 1-14 in. long ; spathe-valves 2, large, deltoid, 
perianth-tube 4 in. long; segments 13-2 in. long, narrowed gradually 
into a filiform claw, reflexing at the top; ovary-} in. long. Baker, 
Handb. Amaryllid. 96. Amaryliis falcata, L’ Herit. Sert. Angl. 13; 
Ait. Hort. Kew.i. 418. Hemanthus falcatus, Thunb. Prodr. 58 ; 
Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 297. Crinum falcatum, Jacq. Hort. Vind. 
iii. 34, ¢. 60. A. coranica, Herb. App. 17; Amaryllid. 241, t. 44, 
Jig. 22; Kunth, Enum. v. 613. Amaryllis coranica, Burchell in 
Bot. Reg. t. 139 and t. 1219 (var. pallida). Palinetes falcata and 
coranica, Salish. Gen. 116. 
Coast Rreton: near Cape Town, Thunberg! Uitenhage Div.; Coega River, 
MacOwan, 1850! Cathcart Div.; Blesbok Flats, near Windvogel Mountain, 
3000 ft., Drége, 8544! 
CrntTRat Recion: Beaufort West Div.; Nieuwveld Mountains, 3000-5000 ft., 
Drége, 8543! Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 2800 ft., MacOwan, 1815! meadows 
a East, MacOwan, 1850! Albert Div.; by the Orange River, 
uUrke ; b 
Katanaki RecIon : Griqualand West ; Klip Fontein, Burchell, 2638! Orange 
Free State; by the Caledon River, Burke! Bechuanaland ; between Hama- 
pery, near Kuruman and Kosi Fontein, Burchell, 2532! 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Pietermaritzburg and Mooi River Valley, 2000- 
8000 ft., Sutherland ! 
2. A. coccinea (Pax in Engl. Jahrb. x. 8); bulb ovoid- 
spherical, 8 in. diam.; leaves lorate, subglaucescent, striated, an 
inch broad, crisped at the edge; peduncle 4 ft. or more long; 
umbel 4 ft. or more in diameter; spathe-valves large, ovate- 
lanceolate ; pedicels above an inch long; flowers bright crimson, 
produced in December ; perianth-tube above 3 in. long ; segments 
oblong-lanceolate, three times the length of the tube, 
Katanari ReGion: Griqualand West, in sandy soil at Kimberley Boshof, 
3500 ft., Marloth, 784. 
XII. BRUNSVIGIA, Heist, 
Perianth suberect or decurved, cut down to a campanulate or 
short cylindrical tube above the ovary ; segments subequal, falcate, 
oblanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong. Stamens more or less declinate, 
inserted in the perianth-tube; filaments filiform, three shorter; 
anthers oblong, dorsifixed, versatile. Ovary turbinate, 3-celled ; 
ovules numerous, superposed; style filiform, declinate; stigma 
capitate. Capsule large, turbinate, acutely triquetrous, narrowed 
gradually into the long ancipitous pedicel, loculicidally 3-valved. 
Seeds subglobose, with a conspicuous funiculus. 
