NERINE. 99 



middle, thick in texture, closely ribbed, rough all over the surface ; 

 edge thickened, scabrous. Flowers and fruit unknown. 



Hab. Central district of Cape Colony, near the Nu-Gariep, Burchell ! 



10. B. ? KiRKii Baker. — A plant sent home by Sir John Kirk 

 from the Usagura Mountains, in East Tropical Africa, is probably 

 a new genus near Brunsvitjia. It has a small acutely triquetrous 

 turbinate capsule, just like that of J)runsvi(/la, but with only a 

 single globose bulbiform green seed sessile near the apex of the 

 placenta. There are very numerous flowers in an umbel, with 

 slender acutely-angled pedicels -^-l ft. long. Perianth an inch long, 

 with a short tube and lanceolate segments. Stamens and stylo 

 exserted ; anthers small, oblong. Bulb and leaves unknown. 



82. Nerine Herb.*' 



Perianth funnel-shaped, cut down nearly or quite to the ovary, 

 erect or decurved ; segments oblanceolate, obtuse, subequal, more 

 or less crisped. Stamens inserted at the base of the perianth- 

 segments ; Ulaments filiform, thickened at the base, suberect or 

 declinate, 3 shorter ; anthers oblong, versatile. Ovary globose, 

 3-lobed; ovules few in a cell, superposed; style filiform, suberect 

 or declinate, obscurely tricuspidate. Cajmile globose, deeply 

 3-lobed, membranous, loculicidally 3-valvcd. t:ii'pds 1 or few in 

 a cell, globose, green. — Bulb tunicated, not produced into a neck. 

 Leaves long, linear, produced with or a little after the flowers. 

 Peduncle usually slender. Flowers few or many, pale or deep red, 

 aiTanged in a centripetal or centrifugal umbel ; spathe-valves 2, 

 lanceolate. 



Peduncle long, slender. Perianth-limb suberect; 



stamens and style nearly straight . . Sp. 1-3. 



Peduncle loug, slender. Perianth limb slightly 

 irregular ; stamens and style dccliuate. 

 Umbel centripetal ...... Sp. 4-G. 



Umbel centrifugal ...... Sp. 7-8. 



Peduncle short, stout Sp. 9-10. 



1. N. SARNiENSis Herb. App. 19. Ainari/Ilis sarniensis L. ; Curt, 

 in Bot. Mag. t. 294 ; Bed. Lil. t. 35 ; Jaeq. Hort. Schoen. t. 66. 

 A. duhia Houtt. A. Jacquinii Tratt. Htcniantlius sariiieiisis Thunb. 

 .Y. insignis Hort. — Bulb ovoid, l-|-2 in. diam. ; tunics pale brown. 

 Leaves about G, bright green, suberect, not curved laterally, 

 developed after the flowers, linear, obtuse, finally a foot long, 

 -|-f in. broad. Peduncle slender, rather compressed, 1-1^ ft. long. 

 Umbel 10-20-flowered, centripetal ; pedicels 1-2 in. long ; spathe- 

 valves ovate-lanceolate, 1^ in. long. Perianth erect, 1^-1^ in. 

 long, bright crimson ; segments oblanceolate, ^-^ in. broad, equally 

 falcate, hardly at all crisped. Filaments erect, bright red, ^ in. 



* Reprinted, with slight alteration, from Gard. Chron. 1885, pp. 779 — 810. 



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