ffypoxis.] CXXXVII. AMARYLLIDEiE (bAKER). 



Fruit capsular 8. Buphane. 



877 



Seeds globose, with a green testa. 

 Fruit indehiscent. 



Perianth-tube long 



Perianth-tube short 

 Fruit a 3-valved capsule. 



Capsule turbinate, acutely angled . 



Capsule globose, obtusely angled . 

 Filaments united in a basal cup. 



Seeds flat, with a black or brown testa 

 Seeds globose, with a green testa 



Tribe III. Vellosleae. 

 outside. Rootstock none. 



The only genus . 



Undershruhs or herhs, 



9. Crinum. 

 10. Ammocharis. 



. 11. 

 . 12. 



Brunsvigia. 

 Nerine. 



. 13. Pancratium. 

 . 14. Htmenocallis. 



loith solitary flowers, glandular 

 • 15. Vellosia. 



1. HYPOXIS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 717. 



Perianth cut down to the ovary ; segments 6, subequal, spreading. 

 Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the perianth-segments ; filaments 

 short, subulate; anthers linear or lanceolate, basifixed or obscurely 

 dorsifixed. Ovary clavate or turbinate, 3-celled, not rostrate ; ovules 

 superposed, few or many in a cell ; style short, columnar. Stigmas ^^, 

 connate or distinct. Capsule usually 3-celled, membranous, splitting 

 round the middle or into 3 valves. Seeds small, globose ; testa crusta- 

 ceous, usually black and shining ; hilum lateral, more or less distinctly 

 beaked ; embryo included in the fleshy or farinaceous albumen. — Root- 

 stock a tuber or corm. Leaves all radical, persistent, linear or ensiform. 

 Flowers solitary, corymbose or racemose, in the Tropical African species 

 yellow and tinged with green and hairy outside. 



Species 60, spread widely through both hemispheres, concentrated in South Africa. 



Flowers solitary. 



Perianth-segments i in. long . . . . . 1. -ff. monanthos. 



long . . . . . 2. H. kilimandscharica. 



in. long . . . . ^. H. Schiynperi. 



6 



Perianth-segments \ 



Perianth-segments ^ 

 Flowers corymbose. 

 Flowers small. 



Leaves not rigid . . . . . . 4-. S. anqusfifoUa. 



Leaves rigid. 



Leaves subterete . . . . . . b. H. canalirulata. 



Leaves narrowly linear , . . . . Q. H. malosana. 



Leaves linear 1. H. cuanzensis. 



Flowers larger. 



. 8. IT. villosa. 



. 9. H. gregoriana. 



Peduncle short 

 Peduncle long 

 Flowers racemose. 

 Raceme lax. 



Leaves \-^ in. broad. 

 Bracts minute 

 Bracts large . 



10. n.. nyasica. 



11. H. angolensis. 



