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long, 1-5-3 mm. broad, linear, acute, membranous and clasping at 

 the base, prominently 5-nerved, glabrous, the margins membranous 

 near the base and sometimes crisped. Perianth 6 cm. long ; tube 

 narrow-cylindric, 4*5 cm. long; lobes 2\5 cm. long, elliptic, sub- 

 obtuse. Filaments 5 mm. long, linear ; anthers 6 mm. long, linear, 

 sagittate at the base. Ovary 9 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, oblong, 

 membranous ; style 5*5 cm. long, linear-filiform ; style-branches 

 3 mm. long, linear, slightly broadened above, papillose at the 

 apex. 



Quite distinct from any other species in the genus. 



AMAEYLLIDACEAE. 



Nerine Ridley i, Phillips, sp. nov. Cormus 3-4 cm. longus, 3-4 

 cm. latus, superne attenuatus. Folia 7-9 cm. longa, 1*3-2 cm. lata, 

 lanceolata, apice obtusa, basi angustata, supra pustulata, glabra. 

 Pedunculus circa 23 cm. longus, 3 mm. latus, glaber. Pedicelus 

 3-4 cm. longus, 1*5 mm. latus, subtrigonus. Segmenta perianthii 

 3 cm. longa, 5 mm. lata, linearia, apice subobtusa recurvaque. 

 Filamenta 2-2 - 5 cm. longa ; antherae 6 mm. longae, oblongae. 

 Ovarium 3 mm. longum, globosum ; stylus 3-3 cm. longus, apice 

 glandulosus. 



Described from a fresh specimen cultivated in the Municipal 

 Gardens, Cape Town, May, 1913. Locality unknown. 



Bulb globose, 3-4 cm. long, 3-4 cm. in diameter, produced into a 

 neck about 4 cm. long, covered with brown membranous tunics. 

 Leaves 4-5, contemporary with the flowers, 7-9 cm. long above 

 the neck, 1-3-2 cm. broad in the widest part, lanceolate, obtuse, 

 narrowed at the base, pustulate above, glabrous, dark green above, 

 lighter beneath. Peduncle about 23 cm. long, 3 mm. in diameter, 

 terete, glabrous, purplish below, becoming green above. Spat lie 

 valves 3 cm. long, linear-oblong, acuminate, acute, pink. Floivcrs 5, 

 diclinate. Pedicels 3-4 cm. long, 1-5 mm. in diameter, sub- 

 trigonous. Perianth segments about 3 cm. long, 5 mm. broad, 

 the two anterior segments much wider apart than the others, 

 linear, subobtuse, recurved, crisped, with a small glandular 

 papilla at the apex, pale pink, with a prominent midrib beneath 

 of usually a slightly deeper pink, and with a distinct red streak 

 on the lower half of the inner face of the segments. Stamens 

 unequal, almost horizontal, recurved upwards at the ends ; filaments 

 of shorter stamens 2 cm. long, those of the longer 2 - 5 cm. long, all 



