Kuktcmakranka 



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found, and there, in the rich brown carpet under the pines, 

 the stars were glowing in profusion. Several inches below 

 the pine-needles a slender ovary was unearthed, concealed 

 in the dry brown scale-leaves of a bulb, from which were 

 extended some long, dried-up, brown remnants of last year's 

 green leaves. 



The flower had a long slender style, leading down through 

 the tube to the ovary. It was 

 crowned with a cushion-shaped 





Fig. 170. — Flower of Gethyllis 

 ( Kukutnakranka). 



Fig. 171. — Bulb and leaves 

 of Gethyllis. 



stigma. There were six filaments borne at the throat of the 

 tube, divided near the middle into two branches, each bearing 

 an anther. 



On looking for it in Flora Capensis among the Amaryl- 

 lideae, its book name was found to be Gethyllis. There are 

 nine different species bearing the name, the number of stamens 

 varying from six to twenty. The leaves of some are spirally 

 twisted, others are rolled back spirally from the tip like a 



