Cyrtanthus.] AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker). 225 
13-2 in. long, yellowish at the base, passing gradually upwards into 
deep blood-red ; tube curved, dilated gradually from the base to a 
throat 4 in. diam: ; segments oblong, }-3 in. long, persistently con- 
nivent ; stamens biseriate, the three lower not exserted from the 
perianth-tube ; filaments as long as the anthers; ovary oblong, } in. 
diam.; style just overtopping the anthers; stigma tricuspidate. 
Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 57; Gard. Chron. 1892, xii. 155, fig. 28. 
CenTrat REGion: Somerset Div.; summit of Bosch Berg, 4500 ft., Mac- 
Owan, 2133 ! 
17. C. lutescens (Herb. Amaryllid. 129, t. 33, fig. 14); bulb 
globose, about 1 in. diam. ; leaves 2—4, produced with or after the: 
flowers, linear, green, straight, flaccid, a foot long, } in. broad; 
peduncle slender, 3-1 ft. long; flowers 2-3 to an umbel; pedicels 
slender, erect, }—} in. long; spathe-valves 2, lanceolate, greenish, 
#~1 in. long ; perianth subereet, yellowish, 2 in. long; tube slightly 
curved, very slender in the lower half, dilated gradually to a throat 
3 in. diam. ; segments oblong, +-} in. long; stamens distinctly 
biseriate ; filaments very short; anthers minute, oblong, the three 
upper placed at the throat of the perianth-tube, the three lower a 
short space below; style exserted from the perianth-tube; stigma 
tricuspidate. Kunth, Enum, v. 539; Baker, Handb, Amaryllid, 58. 
C. alboluteus, Burch. MSS. Monella ochroleuca, Herb. App. 29. 
Van. Cooperi (Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 58) ; peduncle more robust; umbel 
sometimes 6—-10-flowered; pedicels and spathe-valves longer; perianth-segments 
ovate, not more than $-} in. long, more spreading. C. lutescens, Hoek. ia Bot. 
Mag. t. 5374. 
Coast Reeron : Riversdale Div.; on or near the Lange Bergen, Burchell, 
7144! Var. 6, mountains near King Williamstown, Mrs. Barber ! y 
Flanagan, 294! 300! Stockenstrom Div.; southern spurs of Katberg, Mrs. 
Barber ! Hutton! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 1806! 3225! Mrs. Hutton! 
Karanari REGion: 'l'ransvaal; mountain , Barberton, 5000-5500 ft., 
Galpin, 654! and without precise locality, Sa nf : 
Eastern RuGion : Var. 8, Tembuland; Bazeia, in low moist places, 2000 ft., 
Baur, 242! 
18. ©. Mackenii (Hook. fil. in Gard. Chron. 1869, 641, with 
figure) ; bulb ovoid, 1-1} in. diam. ; tunics brown, membranous ; 
leaves 2-6, contemporary with the flower, linear, green, suberect, 
straight, 9-12 in. long, }-} in. broad; peduncle about a foot long, 
subterete, slightly glaucous, red-brown towards the base; flowers 
4-10 in an umbel, pure white; pedicels slender, erect, j-1 in. long ; 
spathe-valves 2, lanceolate, greenish, 1-14 in. long; perianth sub- 
erect, 2in. long; tube slightly curved, dilated gradually esd the base 
toa throat 2 in, diam. ; segments oblong, ascending, {-j in. long ; 
stamens distinctly biseriate ; filaments very short ; anthers ae 
oblong, the 3 upper placed opposite the throat of the tube, the 
_ lower a little below it ; ovary oblong, 4-4 in. diam. ; style exserted 
from the perianth-tube ; stigma tricuspidate. Baker in Saund. Ref. 
Bot. t. 355. a <o 
; ; Tyson, 2103! and without precise locality, 
Gent tase) pose tae Weed, 1936! Adlam, 152! 
