218 AMARYLLIDEE (Baker). [ Vallota. 
oblong, 3-celled; ovules numerous, superposed; style filiform, 
obscurely tricpspidate at the stigmatose apex. Capsule ovoid-oblong, 
obtusely angled, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds black, compressed, 
produced into a wing at the base. 
DistRiB. Endemic; monotypic. 
1. V. purpurea (Herb. App. 29); bulb ovoid, with brown 
membranous tunics; leaves 6-18, subdistichous, developed with the 
flowers, lorate, green, finally 14-2 ft. long, 1-1} in. broad, dying 
down in autumn; peduncle 2-3 ft. long, slightly compressed, sub- 
terete, hollow, glaucous; flowers 6-9 to an umbel, bright scarlet ; 
pedicels 1-2 in. long; spathe-valves oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 in. long ; 
perianth erect, with a greenish tube 1}-13 in. long, ? in. diam. at 
the throat, the divisions about 2 in. long and 1 in:. broad; stamens 
less than an inch shorter than the perianth-segments; anthers 
oblong, 4 in. long; ovary oblong-triquetrous, }-} in. long. Herb. 
Amaryliid, 134, 414, t. 31, fig. 15, ¢. 1, fig. 52; Kunth, Hnum. v. 
531 ; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid.53. Amaryllis purpurea, Ait. Hort. 
Kew. i. 417; Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1430. A. speciosa, L’ Herit. Sert. 
12. Crinum speciosum, Linn. fil. Suppl. 195 ; Thunb. Prodr. 59. 
Cyrtanthus purpureus, Herb. in Bot. Mag. sub ¢. 2113. Amaryllis 
elata, Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 32, t. 62. Vallota elata, Roem. 
Amaryllid. 110. 
Var. magnifica, Hort., is a form with large (4 in. long) bright scarlet flowers, 
with a white eye. Introduced into cultivation by Masson in1774. There is 
white-flowered form. V. elata, Roem., is a form with smaller cherry-red flowers 
and shorter anthers, 
Coast Recion : Hartequas Kloof, Thunberg / on the Post Borg. near Geo 
Burchell, 5949-2 ! : . : = 
XVI. CYRTANTHUS, Ait. 
Pertanth infundibuliform, with a narrow tube two or three times 
as long as the segments, dilated gradually upwards to the throat; 
segments oblong, subequal. Stamens inserted in the perianth-tube ; 
filaments filiform, sometimes very short; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, 
versatile, Ovary 3-celled ; ovules numerous, crowded, superposed ; 
style long, filiform, indistinctly or distinctly 3-lobed at the stigmatose 
apex. Capsule oblong, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds flattened, 
numerous; testa black. ; 
Rootstock a tunicated bulb; leaves persistent, linear or lorate; peduncle 
fistulose ; flowers umbellate, pendulous or erect, usually red or white with green 
stripes; spathe-valves 2-4, greenish, lanceolate. 
DistRrs. In addition to the Cape species there is one in Tropical Africa. 
eT CYRTANTHUS PROPER. Leaves lorate. Flowers pendulous, many in 
an umbel. 
Leaves 1j-8 instead 665 tas oe > Re, 4) ee 
