214 AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker). [Verine. 
nearly flat towards the top, +;—;’5 in. diam. ; peduncle robust, terete, 
2 ft. long; umbel 10—20-flowered, centripetal ; spathe-valvés lanceo- 
late, an inch long ; pedicels 1-1} in. long, densely pubescent ; peri- 
anth pure white, #-1 in. long ; segments oblanceolate, $ in. broad, 
not crisped ; stamens less than half as long as the perianth ; filaments 
filiform, alternating with large square bifid scales; anthers small, 
black, oblong; style very short. 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; in a ravine on a hill near Greytown, 4000-5000 ft., 
yg 4311! and Weenen County, at Waterfall No. 7, 5000-6000 ft., Evans, 
410! 
Originally described from a plant flowered Nov. 1891 by Mr. R. A. Todd, of 
Foots Cray. 
13. N. lucida (Herb. Amaryllid. 283, t. 36, fig. 3) ; bulb 3-4 in. 
diam., with the membranous tunics produced round a neck 2-3 in. 
above its apex; leaves 6-8, contemporary with the flowers, linear, 
bright green, spreading, flaceid, a foot or more in length, }—} in. broad, 
scabrous on the edge; peduncle stout, ancipitous, 3-8 in. long, 
i-3 in. diam. ; flowers 20-40 ina centripetal umbel ; peduncles stiff, 
moderately stout, 3-4 in. long; spathe-valves ovate-lanceolate, much 
shorter than the pedicels; perianth-limb 14-2 in. long, pale or bright 
red, cut down to a cup } im. long; segments oblanceolate-unguicu- 
late, } in. broad, hardly at all crisped ; stamens and style declinate, 
nearly as long as the perianth-segments ; ovary globose-trigonous, 
z in. diam. ; capsule depresso-globose, 3-2 in. diam. Kunth, Enum. v. 
620; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 102. Amaryllis lucida, Burchell, 
Travels, i. 536 Brunsvigia lucida, Herb. App. 16; Roem. et 
oe Syst. Veg. vii. 847. Amaryllis laticoma, Ker in Bot. Reg. 
Karanart Region: Griqualand West; between Griqua Town and Witte 
Water, Burchell, 1969! Orange Free State; Sand River, Burke! Transvaal, 
aren Bechuanaland ; Pellat Plains near Kuruman, Burchell, Bulb No. 
14, N. duparquetiana (Baker); leaves lorate, contemporary with 
the flowers, 8-12 in. long, straight or arcuate ; peduncle as thick as 
a man’s finger ; flowers 20 to an umbel ; pedicels 4 in. long; perianth 
2 in. long; tube very short, funnel-shaped ; segments linear-lanceo- 
late, acuminate, not undulated, white with a many-nerved carmine 
keel ; stamens nearly as long as the segments; ovary as broad as 
long, strongly angled ; ovules 2 in each cell; style papillose. Jm- 
hofia duparquetiana, Baill. in Bull. Linn. Soc. Paris 1132. 
z Le Rearon: Kalahari, Duparguet, 120, 122, 196, 197 (Herb. Mus. — 
* Faris), 
15, N. marginata (Herb. Amaryllid. 283); bulb ovoid, 2-3 in. 
diam., with imbricated, dark brown, membranous tunics and very 
strong root-fibres; leaves 4, produced after the flowers, spreading, 
lingulate, obtuse, 6-9 in. long, 2-24 in, broad, with a reddish erisped 
cartilaginous margin; peduncle stout, compressed, } ft. long; flowers 
