Curculiffo.] cxxxvii. AMARYLLiDEiE (baker). 388 



tuber or corm. Leaves all radical, usually plicate. Flowers solitary or 

 many, spicate, yellow. 



Species 12, spread through the Tropical and Subtropical regions of tlie olci world 



1. C. gallabatensiSy Schweinf. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 ser. 2, Bot. i. 266. Tuber oblong, perennial, lJ-2 in. long; root-fibres 

 many, cylindrical. Outer rudimentary leaves membranous or splitting 

 into fibres ; produced leaves 3-4, linear, plicate vertically, subpetiolate, 

 1-2 ft. long, |-J in. broad, more or less pilose. Flowers solitary ; 

 peduncle short, hidden; tube-like beak of the ovary 1^-2 in. long; 

 bracts linear or lanceolate ; limb |^-f in. long ; segments lanceolate ; 

 3 outer hairy outside and tinged with green. Stamens half as long as 

 the perianth-limb ; anthers lanceolate, as long as the filiform filaments. 

 Style subulate ; stigmas united. Fruit oblong, sessile, crowned by the 

 tube-like beak. Seeds black, with a white fleshy strophiole. — Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xvii. 123. Gethyllis pilosa, Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin. 

 PI. 172. 



Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Parana, on the River Niger, 3300 ft., Scott- 

 Elliot, 5374 ! Gold Coast : Upper Volta ; Salaga, Krause ! Togoland : Bismarck- 

 burg, Bilttner, 381 ! Niger Territory : Nupe ; Ilorin, Rowland ! and without pre- 

 cise locality, Barter, 1506 ! 



irile Iiand. Galabat : bank of the River Gendua, Schweinfurth, 39 ! Jur : 

 Snv G\\?itt^?,, Schweinfurth, ser. iii. 220! by the River Wau, Schweijifurth, 1051! 

 Sonialiland, Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 



IiOwer Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto, Welwitsch ! Lower Congo : Lutete, 

 2000 ft., Hens, 352 ! 



IDKozamb. Blst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; in an Elephant marsh, 

 near the River Nsessi, Scott ! 



8. CRYPTOSTEPHANUS, Welw. ; Benth. et Hook, f . Gen. 



PI. iii. 718. 



Perianth-tube subcylindrical ; segments 6, ovate or oblong, much 

 shorter than the tube. Corona of 12 linear fleshy scales inserted at the 

 throat of the perianth-tube. Stamens 6, inserted in one row above the 

 middle of the perianth-tube ; filaments short ; anthers oblong or linear. 

 Ovary 3-celled ; ovules many in a cell, superposed ; style filiform ; 

 stigma capitate. Fruit a globose berry. Seeds turgid, 1-2 in a cell. 

 — Rootstock a tunicat'ed bulb. Leaves sessile, lorate, obtuse. Flowers 

 small, many in a dense umbel ; spathe-valves several, lanceolate, 

 reflexing. 



Endemic. 



Stamens and style exserted from the perianth-tabe • 1. C. haemanthoides. 



Stamens and style included in the perianth -tube . . 2. C. deusijlorus. 



1. C. haemanthoides. Pax in Engl. Jahrh. xv. 142, t. 7, Jigs. .5-7. 

 Rootstock and leaves unknown. Peduncle short, stout, nearly 1 in. 

 diam. Flowers dark purple, more than 100 in a dense umbel ; spathe- 

 valves several, linear, reflexing, nearly 1 in. long; pedicels ^-1 in. 

 long. Perianth-tube narrowly funnel-shaped, | in. long ; segments of 



