386 cxxxvii. AMARYLLiDE^ (baker). [Eippeastrum. 



6. HIPPEASTRUM, Herb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. 724. 



Perianth funnel-shaped ; tube usually short, rarely long, often 

 furnished with minute scales or a distinct neck at the throat ; segments 

 ovate, subequal or the lowest of the inner row narrower. Stamens 

 declinate, inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers linear or linear-oblong, versatile. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules many, 

 superposed; style long, filiform, declinate; stigma capitate or trifid. 

 Capsule globose, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds flattened, with a thin 

 black testa. — Rootstock a bulb with membranous tunics. Leaves 

 lorate or linear. Peduncle hollow. Flowers large and showy, few 

 in an umbel. 



Species 30, all inhabiting the tropical and subtemperate regions of the New 

 World. 



1. H. Reginse, Herb. Append. 31. Bulb globose, 2-3 in. diam. 

 Leaves lorate, fully developed after the flowers, 2-3 ft. long, IJ in. 

 broad at the middle. Peduncle 1 J ft. long, umbel 2-4- flowered ; 

 spathe-valves lanceolate. Perianth bright red, 4-5 in. long ; tube 

 funnel-shaped, | in. long; throat with a large greenish-white star ; 

 segments ovate, acute, 1-1 J in. broad. Style as long as the perianth- 

 limb; stigma faintly 3-lobed. — Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 48. Ama- 

 ryllis Regince, Linn. Syst. ed. x. 977 ; Bot. Mag. t. 453. Eippeastrum 

 africanumy Welw. ex Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 49. 



3tower Guinea. Princes Island, in aboriginal woods, 3500 ft., Welwitsch, 

 4023! 



Dr. Wehvitsch regarded this as indigenous, but I cannot distinguish it from one of 

 the best known American species. 



7. H-ZEMANTHUS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 730. 



Perianth erect, hypocrateriform ; tube subcylindrical ; segments 

 equal, linear or lanceolate, usually spreading. Stamens inserted at the 

 throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments filiform, often longer than the 

 segments ; anthers small, oblong. Ovary globose, 3-celled ; ovules 1-2, 

 large, pendulous from the centre of the axile placenta; style long, fihform ; 

 stigma minutely tricuspidate. Fruit globose, baccate. Seeds often 

 solitary ; testa pale, membranous. — Rootstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves 

 oblong or lorate, membranous in all the Tropical African species. 

 Flowers densely umbellate, usually bright red ; bracts more than 2, mem- 

 branous, reflexing or ascending. 



Species 40, all the others in South Africa, except one in Arabia and one in Socotra. 

 **Nerissa. Perianth -segments and spathe-valves 

 spreading. 

 Peduncle lateral as regards the tuft of leaves. 

 Perianth-segments 1-nerved. 



Perianth-segments i-f in. long . . . .1. H.filiflorus. 



Perianth-segments 1 in. long . . . . 2. H. zambesiacus. 



