228 AMARYLLIDEZ (Baker). [Cyrtanthus. 
Karawari ReGion: Transvaal; rocky hill sides, Berea Ridge near Barberton, 
3000 ft., Galpin, 409! 
Near C. sanguineus. 
XVII. CLIVIA, Lindl. 
Perianth infundibuliform, curved or straight ; tube infundibuliform, 
short; segments connivent, oblanceolate or . oblanceolate-oblong, 
obtuse, much longer than the tube, the three outer narrower than 
the three inner. Stamens inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube ; 
filaments filiform, about as long as the segments; anthers oblong, 
dorsifixed, versatile. Ovary globose, 3-celled: ovules 5—6 in a cell, 
fascicled at the centre of the placenta; style long, very slender, 
tricuspidate at the stigmatose apex. Fruita bright red pulpy berry. 
Seeds:one or few, large, globose, bulbiform. 
Bulb imperfect, consisting only of the dilated bases of the leaves; root-fibres — 
very thick ; leaves numerous, lorate or oblanceolate, distichous, persistent ; 
peduncle stout, solid, ancipitous; flowers bright red-yellow, scentless, many in 
an umbel; spathe-valves several, unequal, green, lanceolate, membranous, 
imbricated, 
Distris. Endemic. 
Subgenus Evctivia. Perianth curved. 
Leaf not narrowed to the apex ... sil i (1) nobilis. 
Leaf narrowed to the apex... Ber Bs ses .. (2) Gardeni. 
Subgenus IMANTOPHYLLUM, Perianth straight. 
The only species vas . as ts (3) miniata. 
1. C. nobilis (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1182); leaves about a dozen, 
lorate, very obtuse, bright green, not narrowed below the middle, 
1-1} ft. long, 1j-1} in. broad, firm in texture, scabrous on the 
margin; peduncle ancipitous, about a foot long; flowers often 40-60 
in an umbel; pedicels }-1 in. long; spathe-valves several, unequal, 
lanceolate, greenish ; perianth reddish-yellow, curved ; tube infun- 
dibuliform, j—4 in. long; segments oblanceolate, tipped with green, 
i-1} in. long, 3-4 in. broad; stamens a little exserted ; anthers 
oblong, yellow, :,-in. long; ovary globose, } in. diam, ; style finally 
a little longer than the stamens. Roem, et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 892. 
Herb. Amaryllid. 230, t. 36, fig. 6, and t.44, fig. 29; Kunth, Enum. 
v. 585; Baker, Handb. Amaryilid. 61, Imantophyllum. Aitont, Hook. 
in Bot. Mag. t. 2856. 
Coast Recion: Bathurst Div.; near Kaffir Drift, Burchell, 3873! and 
between Riet Fontein and the source of Kasuga River, Burchell, 4131! Eastern 
Frontier, Mrs. Barber ! 
Katanart Reorion: Transvaal; Saddleback Range, near Barberton, 4000- 
4650 ft., Galpin, 1102! 
EastRRN REGION: Natal; near Murchison, Wood, 3066! Zululand ; Eshowe, 
Mrs. Saunders, 8! 
Introduced into cultivation in 1828, 
2. ©. Gardeni (Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 4895); leaves 10-12, 
lorate, distichous, bright green, 13-2! ft, long, 1-13 in. broad, 
