il. HAEMODORACEAE— 22. AMARYLLIDACEAE. 63. 



28. ANDROCYMBIUM Willd. 



1. decipiens N.E.B. Coastbelt. 



2. melanthoides Willd. Drakensberg. 



3. natalense Baker. Coast to Drakensberg. 



29. WURMBEA. 



1. kraussii Baker. Midlands and Drakensberg, 9,500 ft. 



2. pusilla Phillips. Mont aux Sources, 10,000 ft. 



30. GLORIOSA L 'Hlamvu." 



virescens Ldl. Sand dune and coast bush. Climber. 



31. SANDERSONIA Hook. 



aurantiaca Hook. Midlands and Drakensberg. Common. 



32. LITTONIA Hook. 



modesta Hk. Coast and Midland. Scrub and bush. 



33. SANSEVIERA Thunb. "isiKholo kotho." 



thyrsiflora Thb. Edges of bush and Thorn veld. Coast and 

 Midlands. Common. 



FAMILY 21--HAEMODORACEAE. 



Herbs. Perianth segments 6 free or united. Ovary superior 

 or inferior, 3 celled (sometimes 2 sterile). Fruit a capsule. 

 1 genus 1 species. 

 BARBERETTA Harv. 



aurea Harv. York Bush, in damp shady places. 

 (Sanseviera Thb. is included in this family in the Flora 

 Capensis). 



FAMILY 22— AMARYLLIDACEAE. 



Herbs with radical leaves. Flowers more or less regular, 

 hermaphrodite. Perianth segments 6. Stamens 6. Ovary in- 

 ferior or half inferior, 3 celled. Endosperm fleshy I4 genera 75 

 species. 



1. Rootstock a corm or tuber or woody. Flowers solitary or 



not subtended by a spathe. 2. 



Rootstock a bulb (imperfect in Ciivia). Flowers usually in 



an umbel subtended by a spathe, rarely solitary. 4. 



2. Stem woody or herbaceous with leaves all down. Flowers 



white or tinged with purple. 14 VELLOSIA. 



Leaves all radical. Flowers usually yellow, rarely white. 3. 



3. (a) Ovary narrowed into a long beak. Fruit indehiscent. 



2 CURCULIGO. 



(b) Ovarv not beaked. Fruit capsular. Flowers yellow. 



1 HYPOXIS. 



(c) Perianth tube short. Flowers red or white. 



1 A. RHODOHYPOXIS. 



4. Anthers basifixed. (Deeply sagittate in Anoiganthua). 5 



