380 CXXVII. AMARYLLIDER. 
Seeds compressed, black, winged.—Kunth, Enum. v. p. 531 ; 
Bot. Mag. t. 1430. 
A handsome bulbous plant. Leaves distichous, linear-strapshaped, ap- 
pearing with the flowers. Scape fistular, bearing a few-flowered umbel. 
Spathe 2-leaved ; flowers pedicellate, about 3 in the spathe, bright scarlet. 
—Hastern district. 
2. CYRTANTHUS, Ait. 
Perianth tubular- funnelshaped, with an erect or spreading, 
6-fid, subequal limb, the inner lobes wider; tube straight or 
curved. Stamens 6, inserted above the middle of the tube, 
straight or deflexed, included, the alternate longer ; anthers 
incumbent. Style erect or declined, exserted ; stigma slightly 
3-lobed. Capsule 3-angled. Seeds compressed, black.—Kunth, 
Enum. v. p. 583; Bot. Mag. t. 271, 1133, 2471, 2634, 2291, 
3779, 5374. 
Bulbous plants, of which there many species in the Eastern district and 
at Natal. Leaves flat or channelled, linear. Scape fistular; spathe 1- or 
many-flowered. Flowers pedicellate, often pendulous or cernuous, scarlet 
yellow or white, rarely striped. 
3. CYPHONEMA, Herb. 
Perianth with a straight tube, slender and cylindrical below, 
bell-shaped above; limb regular, reflexed. Filaments in- 
curved, the sepaline in the middle of the tube, the petaline in- 
serted higher. Style slender; stigma 3-lobed.—Kunth, l. c. 
541. 
C. Loddigesianum, Herb., is a bulbous plant, with a solitary, vernal leaf 
and a 2-flowered, autumnal, hollow scape. Flowers whitish, striped with 
green, 1$ inches. Pedicels erect. ’ 
4. CRINUM, Linn. 
Perianth-tube long and slender, not much widening in the 
throat; limb 6-parted; segments subequal, many-nerved, 
erect, spreading or reflexed. Stamens on the summit of the 
tube, elongate, spreading or declined; anthers versatile, in- 
cumbent. Style erect or declined; stigma obtuse. Capsule 
membranous, depressed, irregularly bursting, few-seeded. 
Seeds angular-globose, often viviparous.—Kuwnth, lL. ¢. 547 ; 
Bot. Mag. t. 2352. 
Bulbous plants. Leaves multifarious. Scape solid, many-flowered.—3 
Cape species, Hastern. 
5. CLIVIA, Lindl. 
Perianth with a short tube, funnel-shaped, subequally 6- 
parted, the inner lobes a little longer. Stamens on the sum- 
mit of the tube, erect, slightly exserted ; anthers fixed above 
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