404 cxxxvii. AMARYLLiDEiE (baker). [Crinum, 



88. C. giganteum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 169. Bulb globose, 5-0 in. 

 diam. ; neck short. Leaves 12 or more to a bulb, lanceolate, mem- 

 branous, laxly veined, 2-3 ft. long, 3-4 in. broad at the middle, narrowed 

 gradually to the point and to a narrow base. Peduncle stout, green, 

 compressed, 2-3 ft. long. Flowers generally 4-6, rarely 8-12 in an 

 umbel ; pedicels none or very short ; spathe- valves ovate, green, 3-4 in. 

 long. Perianth-tube slender, curved, 5-7 in. long ; segments oblong, 

 pure white, 3-4 in. long, ascending, much imbricated, 1-H in. broad. 

 Filaments pure white, 1 in. shorter than the perianth-segments ; 

 anthers linear, J-| in. long. Style reaching to the tip of the perianth- 

 segments. — Red. Lil. t. 181 ; Bury, Hexand. t. 17 ; Hook, in Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5205; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 1)1. C. vanillodoi'um, Welw. 

 ex Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, 196 ; K E. Br. in 111. Hort. 1886, 

 t. 017. C . petiolatum, var. spectabile, Herb. Amaryllid. 200. Amaryllis 

 gigantea, Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 226. A. latifolia, Lam. Encyc. 

 i. 124. A. Candida, Tratt. Tab. t. 488. 



Vpper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Bahington ! Ashantee : Assin-yan-Coomassie, 

 Cummins, 158 ! and without precise locality, Lanyon ! Lagos : Eppah (Epe), on the 

 Kradu Lagoon, Barter, 3264 ! and without precise locality, Molonei/ ! Niger Terri- 

 tory : Nupe, Barter, 1500 ! 1503 ! 



Iio-wer Guinea. Gaboon : Munda ; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 359 ! Angola : 

 Golun^o Alto, 1000-2400 ft., Wehvitsch, 4020 ! 4021 ' Congo, cultivated specimen, 

 Linden ! 



South Central. Moubuttu : Munza, Schweinfurth, 3487 ! 



Blozamb. I>ist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Zouiba, Buchanan ! 

 Magomero, Meller 1 



Var. nohile, Baker. Peduncle and flower suffused with a tinge of red. — C. nobile, 

 Bull, Cat. 1888, 21 with fig. 

 Country not stated. 



10. AMMOCHARIS, Herb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 727. 



Perianth funnel-shaped ; tube short above the ovary, cyhndrical ; 

 segments 6, equal, ascending, oblong, unguiculate. Stamens 6, inserted 

 at the throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments filiform, about as long as 

 the segments, equally divergent ; anthers linear-oblong, dorsifixed, 

 versatile. Ovary ampulliform, narrowed into a distinct neck, 3-celled ; 

 ovules many, superposed ; style filiform ; stigma capitate. Fruit a 

 loculicidal, membranous capsule. Seeds globose. — Rootstock a large 

 tunicated bulb. Leaves many, bifarious, not contemporary with the 

 flowers. Peduncle stout. Flowers many in a dense umbel. 



Species 3, all found in South Africa. 



1. A. taveliana, Schinz in Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Branden. xxxi. 

 214. Bulb very large ; tunics horizontally truncate at the apex. 

 Leaves oblong, acute, 15 in, or more long, above 2 in. broad. Peduncle 

 8-10 in. long, nearly 1 in. diam. Umbel dense, globose, 1-5 in. diam. ; 

 pedicels \l in. long; spathe- valves oblong, 1 in. broad. Perianth-tube 



