Strumaria. ] AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker). 217 
without any neck; leaves 2, narrow, lorate, suberect, glabrous, 
5-6 in. long, $-4 in. broad, enclosed in a reddish-brown cylindrical 
sheath at the base, 14-2 in. long; peduncle slender, about a foot 
long ; flowers 8-10 in an umbel, sweet-scented ; pedicels 1-11 in. 
long; spathe-valves lanceolate, 3—# in. long; perianth-segments 
oblanceolate, } in. long, white with a pinkish tinge, plane; stamens 
exserted, united to the style towards the base; style swollen, 
acutely triquetrous towards the base ; capsule globose; seeds usually 
‘solitary. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 32; Act. Hort. Kew. 2,ii.212; Herb. 
Amaryliid. 287, t. 29, fig. 14; Kunth, Enum. v. 623 ; Baker, Handb. 
Amaryllid. 104. Pugionella angustifolia, Salisb, Gen. 128. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality. 
Known to me only from Jacquin’s figure. 
4. 8. rubella (Jacq. Ic. ii. t. 358); bulb ovoid, under an inch 
in diam. ; leaves 83-4, narrow lorate, suberect, 6-9 in. long, } in. 
broad, not enclosed in a produced funnel-shaped sheath at the base ; 
peduncle slender, terete, 1-1} ft. long; flowers 6-10 in an umbel, 
scentless ; pedicels about an inch long;. spathe-valves lanceolate, 
purplish ; perianth-segments pinkish, plane, lanceolate, 4-2 in. long ; 
stamens exserted ; filaments united to one another, and the style 
towards the base; style clavate-triquetrous in the lower third. 
Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 31; Ait. Hort. Kew. 2, ii. 212 ; Herb. Amaryllid, 
288, ¢, 29, fig. 12; Kunth, Enum. v. 624; Baker, Handb, Amaryllid. 
~ 104. Stylago rubella, Salish. Gen. 127. 
Sours Arrica: without locality. 
Known to me only from Jacquin’s figure, 
5.8. undulata (Jacq. Ic. ii. t. 360); bulb ovoid, 1-1} in. 
diam. ; leaves 3, narrow lorate, suberect, glabrous, 6-10 in. long, 
4-1 in. broad, enclosed at the base in a loose, red-brown, funnel-shaped, 
truncate sheath 2 in. long; peduncle slender, terete, 1} ft. long ; 
flowers about 6 in an umbel, scentless; pedicels 1-13 in. long; 
spathe-valves lanceolate, purplish, as long as the pedicels; perianth- 
segments pinkish, crisped, lanceolate, j in. long; stamens exserted ; 
filaments filiform, free to the base; style as long as the stamens, 
clavate-triquetrous below the middle. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 32 ; 
Herb, Amaryllid. 288, t. 29, fig. 18; Kunth, Enum. v. 624; Buker, 
Handb. Amaryllid. 104. Eudolon undulatum, Salish. Gen, 127. 
Sours Argica: without locality. 
Kaown to me only from Jacquin’s figure. 
XV. VALLOTA, Herb. 
Perianth erect, with an infundibuliform tube, and 6 equal, ascend- 
ing, oblong, connivent segments, with a pulvinate callus at the base. 
Stamens inserted in the upper part of the perianth-tube; filaments 
filiform, elongated; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, versatile. Ovary 
