168 FLORA OF SOUTH 
Patersonia. 
Scape short; outer bracts of spikes striate; calyx- 
tube filiform, somewhat exsert 
Scape longer than the leaves; outer bracts almost 
smooth ; calyx-tube slender, enclosed 
Sisyrinchium. 
Spikes with several flowers, the outer bracts broad with 
scarious margins : aoe x 
ORDER AMARYLLIDEAE. 
Flowers solitary or in a few-flowered raceme, stamens 
free; calyx-lobes green outside, yellow within; 
petals yellow ... 7 : 
Flowers umbellate ; calyx and petals white or yellow ; 
stamens free ¥ 
Flowers umbellate, calyx petaloid ; filaments united 
into a wide tube; flowering scapes appearing 
before the leaves : Ph ae = rere 
Hypoxis. 
Leaves beset with long soft hairs; flowers 1 to 5 on 
the scape; anthers much divergent at the base ; 
capsule obovoid-globular 
Leaves glabrous; anthers parallel; flowers usually 
solitary. 
Flowers large, scape with a large bract about the 
middle ; fruit ovoid... nae 
Flowers small; scape with 2 opposite bracts ; fruit 
ovoid-globular 5 oh: ; 6 
Crinum. 
Flowers many, sessile in the umbel, or on stalks shorter 
than the beaked ovary ; leaves long, but narrow... 
Flowers on pedicels longer than the obtuse ovary. 
Flowers primrose-yellow, 6 to 12 in the umbel, the 
lobes about 3 in. long and nearly 1 in. broad 
Flowers yellowish-white, 4 in the umbels, lobes 
smaller 
Calostemma. 
Calyx-tube dilated; flowers purple 
Flowers yellow, larger about 4 inch long 
AUSTRALIA. 
glauca 
longiscapa 
cyaneum 
Hypoxis 
Crinum 
Calostemma 
hygrometrica 
glabella 
pusilla 
angustifolium 
fiaccidum 
pedunculatum 
purpureum 
luteum 
