384 cxxxvii. AMARYLLiDEiE (baker). \Cryptostephanu8. 



the limb oblong, acute, half as long as the tube, spreading or reflexing. 

 Scales linear, yellow, half as long as the perianth-segments. Stamens 

 inserted above the middle of the perianth-tube ; anthers lanceolate, 

 exserted from the perianth-tube. Style long, exserted from the 

 perianth tube. 



vile Xiand. British East Africa : Taita, Hildehrandt, 2578. 



No specimen at Kew. 



2. C. densiflorus, Welw. ex Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, 193,^. 197. 

 Rootstock a bulb, with membranous tunics. Leaves 6-8, contemporary 

 with the flowers, lorate, obtuse, erect, glabrous, glaucous, sessile, 1 ft. 

 long, J-J in. broad. Peduncle stout, 2-angled, about as long as the 

 leaves. Flowers 20-30 in a dense umbel ; spathe-valves many, unequal, 

 lanceolate, green, reflexing, under 1 in. long; pedicels very short. 

 Perianth dark purple, f in. long; tube subcylindrical, more or less 

 curved, J in. long; segments of the limb ovate, \ in. long. Scales 

 linear, minute. Anthers oblong, nearly sessile, oblong, inserted above 

 the middle of the tube. Style short, not exserted from the perianth- 

 tube. Berry J in. diam. — Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 1 ; Engl. Hoch- 

 gebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 170. 



Iiower Guinea* Angola : mountains of Huilla, 4000-5000 ft,, Welwitsch, 

 4027! 



No specimen at Kew. 



4. CYRTANTHUS, Ait.; Eenth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 729. 



Perianth funnel-shaped ; tube narrow, with a naked throat ; seg- 

 ments 6, subequal, shorter than the tube. Stamens inserted below the 

 throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments filiform, sometimes very short ; 

 anthers oblong, dorsifixed, versatile. Ovary ovoid, 3-celled; ovules 

 many, superposed ; style long, filiform ; stigma distinctly or indistinctly 

 3-lobed. Capsule oblong, membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds 

 flat, black, winged at the base. — Rootstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves 

 rather fleshy, flaccid, linear or lorate. Flowers umbellate, rarely 

 solitary, erect or pendulous, red, yellow or white ; spathe-valves 2-4, 

 lanceolate. 



Species 20, the others all South African. 



* MoNELLA. Leaves sessile, linear. Perianth-tube 

 cylindrical. 



The only Tropical African species . . . . 1. C. Wehvitschii. 



** Gastrgnema. Perianth-tube much dilated on the 

 upper half. 



The only species . . . . . . . 2. C. sanguineus. 



1. C. Welwitschii, Hiern ex Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, 197. 

 Bulb ovoid, 1 in. diam. ; tunics brown, membranous. Leaves about 4, 

 contemporary with the flowers, linear, glaucous, 1-lJ ft. long, \-^ in. 



