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reaching to the tip of the segments. V. elata Roem. {Amaryllis 

 elata Jacq. Hort. Schoen. i. t. 62) is a form with smaller cherry-red 

 flowers. Var. minor Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 552, is a similar form. 

 Var. magnifica Hort. is a form with large bright scarlet flowers, 

 with a whitish throat. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; Southern provinces. Introduced into cultivation by 

 Masson m 1774:. There is a white-flowered variety. Cyrtanthus hybridus N. E. 

 Brown in Gard. Chron. 1885, vol. xxiv. p. 391, is a hybrid between Vallota and 

 Cyrtanthus sanyuineus, most resembling the former. 



23. Cyrtanthus Ait. 



Perianth funnel-shaped, with a narrow tube with a naked 

 throat, two or three times the length of the oblong segments. 

 Stamens inserted below the throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments 

 filiform, sometimes very short; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, versatile. 

 Ocarij 3-celled ; ovules numerous, superposed ; style long, filiform ; 

 stigma distinctly or indistinctly 3-lobed. Capsule oblong, loculi- 

 cidally 3-valved. Seeds flat, black, produced into a wing at the 

 base. — liootstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves persistent, linear or lorate. 

 Peduncle hollow. Flowers erect or pendulous, usually red or white, 

 with green stripes. Spathe-valves 2-4, green, lanceolate. 



Subgenus Cyrtanthus proper. Flowers many in an umbel, 

 pendulous. Leaves lorate. . Sp. 1-3. 



Subgenus Monella. Flowers many in an umbel, usually 

 pendulous. Leaves linear. 



Flowers red . . Sp. 4-13. 

 Flowers white . . Sp. 14. 

 Flowers yellow . . Sp. 15. 



Subgenus Gastronema. Flowers 1 or few in an umbel, erect or 

 slightly decurved. Perianth-tube more open. 



Leaves linear . . Sp. 16-19. 

 Leaves lanceolate . Sp. 20. 



1. C. oBLiQuus Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 414; Jacq. Hort. Schoen. i. 

 t. 75 ; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 265 ; Bot. Reg. t. 1133 ; Red. Lil. t. 381. 

 Crinum ohllquum Linn. fil. Agapantlius Umbrella L'Herit. — Bulb 

 ovoid, 3-4 in. diam. Leaves 10-12, lorate, distichous, produced 

 after the flowers, 1-|— 2 ft. long. Peduncle stout, subterete, mottled, 

 1-2 ft. long. Flowers 10-12 in an umbel, very drooping, bright 

 red, with a yellowish base, inodorous, 2-3 in. long; pedicels |— 1 in. ; 

 spathe-valves usually 4, lanceolate, reflexing. Perianth-tube curved, 

 twice as long as the oblong segments, ^-^ in. diam. at the throat. 

 Stamens biseriate ; filaments short, an inch long. Style reaching 

 to the tip of the segments ; stigma capitate. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; Southern provinces. Flowers in May and June. 

 Introduced into cultivation by Masson in 1774. 



2. C. carneus Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1462.— Bulb ovoid, 2-3 in. 

 diam. Leaves 8-10, lorate, produced after the flowers, glaucous. 



