210 AMARYLLIDEH (Baker). [Nerine. 
globose, 4 in. diam. ; style straight, nearly 2 in. long. Kunth, 
Enum, v. 617 ; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 99. Amaryllis sarniensis, 
Lann. Sp. Plant. 293; Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 294; Red. Lil. t. 33; 
Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 34, t. 66. <A. dubia, Houtt. Hand, xii. 
181, ¢. 84, jig. 1. Hamanthus sarniensis, Thunb. Prodr. 58; 
Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 298. A. Jacquini, Tratt. Gartenpfl. 43. 
N. Jacquini, Roem. Amaryllid. 105. Imhofia sarniensis, Salisb. 
Gen. 118. (Lilium sarniense, Dougl. Deser. Guern. Lil. tt. 1-2.) 
Vaz. 8, N. Plantii (Hort.); differs from the type by the colour of the flower 
being a duller crimson, the segments more distinctly unguiculate, and the 
peduncle longer. 
Var. y, N. venusta (Herb. App. 19); leaves green; flowers bright scarlet, 
produced earlier than in any of the other varieties, Ker in Bot. Mag. t, 1090.. 
Imhofia venusta, Salisb. Gen. 118. 
Van. 5, N. rosea (Herb. App. 19); leaves darker green than in the type; 
— rose-red ; seeds oblong. Bot. Mag. t. 2124. Imhofia rosea, Salish. Gen. 
118. 
Var. ¢, N. corusca: (Herb. App. 19); bulb tunics not chaffy ; leaves broader 
than in the type, bright green, with distinct cross-bars between the main veins; 
flowers large, bright scarlet, resembling those of N, curvifolia. Herb. Amaryllid. 
283; Kunth, Enum. v. 617. Amaryllis corusca, Gawl. in Bot. Mag. sub 
. — A, humilis B, Gawl.in Bot. Mag. t. 1089. Imhofia corusca, Salisb. Gen. 
Coast Recron: Table Mountain, Thunberg! Rogers! Ecklon ! 
Commonly cultivated in European gardens under the name of Guernsey lily. 
2. N. curvifolia (Herb. App. 19); bulb ovoid, 13-2 in. diam. ; 
tunies pale brown; leaves 6, developed after the flowers, lorate, 
obtuse, curved laterally, thicker in texture than in J. sarniensis, 
glaucous, closely veined, a foot long, }-$ in. broad; peduncle 
slender, glaucous, 1-14 ft. long; umbel 8-12-flowered, centripetal ; 
pedicels 1-1} in. long; spathe-valves about as long as the pedicels ; 
perianth erect, bright scarlet, 1}-14 in. long; segments oblan- 
ceolate, } in. broad, equally falcate, but little crisped; stamens 
suberect, about as long as the perianth-limb; ovary globose, $ in. 
diam.; style suberect, finally 2 in. long. Herb. Amaryllid. 283, 
t. 36, fig. 4, § t. 45, fig. 3; Kunth, Enum.v. 616; Baker, Handb. 
Amaryllid. 100. Amaryllis curvifolia, Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 33, 
t.64; Gawl.in Bot. Mag. t.725; Red. Lil. t. 274. Imhofia glauca, 
Salish. Gen. 118. 
Van. B, N. Fothergillii (Roem, Amaryllid. 104); more robust in all its parts 
than in the type; leaf broader; flowers in sn umbel more numerous, between 
crimson and scarlet, <Amaryllis Fothergillii, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 163. 
Sour Argica : without locality. 
—— in European gardens, where it flowers from the middle to the end of 
8. N. Moorei (Leichtl. in Gard. Chron. 1886, xxvi. 681); 
leaves produced a little after the flowers, 9-12 in. long, 4-? in. 
broad, much curved, slightly twisted, blunt-pointed, bright green ; 
peduncle stout, compressed, shorter than the leaves; flowers 6-9 
in a centripetal umbel pedicels }-1 in, long; spathe-valves 
