244 AMARYLLIDEE (Baker). [ Buphane. 
Var. 8, B. guttata (Herb. Amaryllid. 240, t. 22, fig. 1); leaf narrrower, the 
bristles subulate, 3-4 in. long, variously directed. Kunth, Enum, v. 605. 
SourH AFRICA: without locality, Villette! Var. 8, Thunberg/ and a sketch by 
Masson in the British Museum ! 
Coast Ree@ion: hills near Cape Town, Thunberg! near Tulbagh, Burchell, 
1038! Caledon Div.; near Genadendal, Burchell, 7929 ! 
XX. VELLOZIA, Vand. 
Perianth cut down to the ovary; segments equal, lanceolate or 
oblong, spreading, marcescent. Stamens 6 in all the Cape species 
(sometimes indefinite) ; filaments very short; anthers linear, basi- 
fixed. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules numerous, superposed ; style columnar ; 
stigma capitate, 3-lobed. Capsule globose or turbinate, coriaceous, 
laterally 3-lobed, finally dehiscing loculicidally. Seeds numerous, 
angled or compressed; testa black; albumen firm in texture ; 
embryo minute, remote from the hilum. 
Stems generally thick and woody, surrounded by many fibrous sheaths; leaves 
linear or subterete, coriaceous, persistent; peduncles slender, elongared, 
1-flowered ; flowers white or tinged with blue or purple. 
Distris. The headquarters of the genus is in Central Brazil, In Africa it 
extends to Abyssinia and Madagascar. Species about 50. : 
Stems thick and woody, with numerous fibrous coats : 
Ovary echinate : 
' Leaves smooth on the edge... cae ... (1) retinervis. 
Leaves bristle-ciliated ... —... w- ae (2) clavata. 
Ovary viscose, not echinate ;: 
Perianth not glandular outside se ase (8) equisetoides. 
Perianth glandular outside... we .» (4) viscosa. 
Ovary densely villose Si ia ao. a ee ee 
Herbaceous, with shorter, slender stems i ... (6) elegans. 
Acaulescent ; flowers very small ta * igests eee. 
1. V. retinervis (Baker); fruticose, reaching a height of many 
feet, with branches 14-2 in. diam., clothed with many sheaths of 
wiry, brown, parallel fibres with clathrate interspaces ; leaves linear or 
linear-subulate, 3-1 ft. long, 4,1 in. broad, closely and finely ribbed, 
smooth upon the margins and keel; peduncles 1-3-nate, stiffly erect, 
3-5 in. long, not at all viscid, smooth except the very top ; perianth- 
limb 13-1} in. long; segments purplish-white, lanceolate, neither 
glandular nor hairy outside; anthers linear, $ in. long ; ovary turbi- 
nate, } in. long, densely echinate with subulate, drab, wiry, ascending 
bristles ; style cylindrical, as long as the anthers. Xerophyta 
retinervis, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1875, 233; Gard. Chron. 1876, vi. 
836, fig. 153; Regel, Gartenfl. xxvi. 161, t. 903. 
Kavanart Recion: Transvaal ; Magalies Berg, Burke ! Zeyher, 1672! plains 
near Pretoria, 4100 ft.,° Bolus, 5802! hills near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4317! near 
Barberton, Galpin, 438! 
Introduced into cultivation by Haage and Schmidt in 1876. 
2. V. clavata (Baker) ; fruticose ; leaves linear-subulate, glabrous, 
coriaceous, acuminate, 3-4 in. long, closely ribbed, margined with 
short ascending bristles; peduncles 1-2-nate, 4—6 in. long, smooth 
exeept towards the tip, where they are black and bristly ; perianth- 
