262 Plants and their Ways in South Africa 



always cymose. Flowers in umbels, corymbs, or single. Distinguished 

 from the Lily family by the inferior ovary. 



Tribe I. Hypoxide/E. — Rootstock a corm. Flowers without a spathe 



below, usually yellow, and hairy outside. 

 Pauridia. —Stamens 3, opposite inner segments. 

 CurculigO.— Stamens 6. Fruit indehiscent, produced into a long 



beak beneath the perianth. 

 Hypoxis. — Stamens 6. Capsule splitting around at the centre, 



not produced into a beak, or rarely beaked. 



Tribe II. Amaryllide^. — Rootstock a bulb. Leaves all radical. 



Flowers never hairy outside, usually in an umbel with a spathe 



below. 

 * Anthers basifixed. 



Hessea. — Anthers small. Perianth cut down to the base. 

 Carpolyza. — Anthers small. Perianth with a tube. 

 Anoiganthus. — Anthers long, arrow-shaped. Flowers in umbels. 

 Gethyllis. — Flowers solitary, with a long tube and a flat spread- 

 ing limb. Stamens in a single row ; anthers linear. 

 Apodolirion. — Flowers solitary ; perianth funnel-shaped. Stamens 



in two rows ; anthers linear. 

 ** Anthers attached at the back, swinging. 



Fruit indehiscent, bursting regularly. Seeds one or few, bulb-like. 

 Crinum. — Segments of the perianth broad. Stamens declinate 



(filaments bending down toward the lower side of the flower, and 



then curving upward toward the anthers). Leaves persistent 



(with the flowers). 

 Amaryllis. — Lobes of the perianth broad. Stamens declinate. 



Leaves short-lived, withering before flowering. 

 Ammocharis. — Lobes of the perianth narrow. Stamens erect. 

 Fruit a 3-parted capsule. Seeds many, flattened. 

 Brunsvigia. — Perianth cut down to the ovary. Style not swollen at 



the base. Capsule turbinate (top-shaped), sharply angled. 

 Nerine. — Perianth cut down to the ovary. Style not swollen near 



the base. Capsule globose, obtusely angled. 

 Strumaria. — Perianth cut down to the base. Style swollen, and 



3-angled near the base. 

 Vallota. — Perianth with a tube rather shorter than the limb. 

 Cyrtanthus. — Perianth with a tube longer than the limb. 

 Fruit a berry or capsule. Ovules 2 or 3, clustered at the middle of 



the placentas. 

 Clivia. — Bulb imperfect. Bracts below the umbel, several. Fruit 



a berry. 

 Haemanthus. — Bulb large, with thick scale leaves in two ranks. 



Bracts under the umbel, several. Fruit a berry. 

 Buphane. — Fruit a capsule. Bracts 2. 



