76 TWO NEW GENERA OF AJMARYLLIDACEiE FROM CAPE COLONY. 



Anoiganthus, Baker. Flowers iii an umbel, or reduced to one, 

 bracteated by a spatlie of one or two large lanceolate valves. 

 Perianth erect, symmetrical, with a short funnel-shaped tube above 

 the ovary, and an erect funnel-shaped limb with six equal 

 ascending, lanceolate, acute segments, about three times as long as 

 the tube, laxly nerved all over the back. Stamens six, distinctly 

 biseriate ; filaments filiform, straight, ascending, longer than 

 the anthers, those of the three upper inserted at the throat of the 

 tube, those of the three lower a little below. Anthers small, 

 oblong, versatile. Ovary oblong, three-celled ; ovules horizontal, 

 very numerous. Style filiform, reaching finally nearly to the top 

 of the perianth-segments. Stigma trifid, with short falcate 

 spreading branches. Fruit a capsule, with loculicidal dehiscence. 

 Seeds compressed, tightly packed in the cells. Acaulescent herbs, 

 with a bulbous root- stock and moderately large, whitish, or pale- 

 yellow flowers. 



From Cyrtanthus, with which this has been associated, this 

 recedes widely in the character of the perianth, which resembles 

 that of Hmmanthns or Buphane. In habit and stature, the common 

 species recalls our European Leucojiun cBstivum. 



Tall, umbellate, with lorate leaves . . . 1. A. brevijiorus. 

 Dwarf, 1-flowered, with filiform leaves . . 2. A. luteus. 



1. A. BREviFLORUS, Baker ; Cyrtanthus breviforus, Harvey Thea. 

 t. 139 (a poor figure). Bulb ovoid, an inch in diameter, with 

 a short neck, and very dense tuft of slender root-fibres. Produced 

 leaves generally three, cotemporary with the flowers, lorate, 

 obtuse, half to three-quarters of an inch broad, above a foot long 

 when fidly developed. Scape slender, terete, varying in length 

 according to situation fi-om a couple of inches to a foot or a foot 

 and a half. Umbel two to ten-flowered. Bracts one or two, 

 lanceolate, one and a half to two inches long. Pedicels finally 

 one to two inches long, erect in all stages. Ovary green, oblong, 

 an eighth of an inch long ; tube a quarter to three-eighths of an 

 mch long, funnel-shaped ; limb half to three-quarters of an inch 

 long, whitish ; segments equal, lanceolate, acute. Three upper 

 stamens reachmg half-way up the limb, the three lower just out of 

 the throat. Anthers pale yellow, oblong, half an inch long ; 

 filaments a quarter to one-third of an inch. Style overtopping 

 the stamens, with three falcate stigmatose lobes, thickened at the 

 tip. Perianth persistent till the fruit is half formed. Capsule 

 membranous, oblong, or turbinate, half to three-quarters of an 

 inch long, each cell filled full of compressed seeds. Natal, 

 Krauss, 255 ! 394 ! Sanderson, 692 ! Plant, 106 ! At 5000 feet, on 

 Mount Kondewelde, of the Sneeuwbergen range, December, 1872, 

 in leaf and flower. Bolus, 2577! Damp places on the Baziya 

 hills, Transkeian Kaffraria, (type and a depauperated one to two- 

 flow^ered form, one to two mches high, without leaves present with 

 the flowers). Rev. it. Baur, 248 ! In marshy plains, Beaufort, 

 Cooper, 255 ! Damp table-land of Mount Boschberg, MacOwan, 

 2133! Aho Vreye, 3521! 



