406 CXXXVII. AMARYLLIDEiE (bAKER). [iWiwe. 



1. N, undulata, Herh, Apj?. 19. Bulb ovoid, J-1 in. diam. ; 

 tunics pale, membranous. Leaves 4-6, contemporary with the flowers, 

 linear, bright green, 1-1 J ft. long. Peduncle slender, terete, as long as 

 the leaves. Flowers 8-12 in a centrifugal umbel ; pedicels slender, 

 1-1 J in. long ; spathe-valves as long as the pedicels. Perianth-limb 

 pale pink, |-1 in. long ; segments oblanceolate, much crisped. Stamens 

 declinate, as long as the perianth. Capsule deeply lobed, \ in. diam. ; 

 cells 1-seeded. — Kunth, Enum. v. 621. Amaryllis undulata, Linn. 

 Syst. Nat. edit. 12, 237. Imkojia urodulata, Kuntze, Revis. Gen. 704; 

 Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 46. 



Iiower Guinea. Hereroland, BelcJc, 59b (ex Schinz). 



Widely spread in South Africa. 



No specimen from Tropical Africa at Kew. 



2. N. lucida. Herb. Amaryllid, 283, t. 36, fig. 3. Bulb globose, 

 3-4 in. diam., with brown membranous tunics produced along its neck. 

 Leaves 6-8, contemporary with the flowers, linear, bright green, 1 ft. 

 or more long, |^-| in. broad, scabrous on the edge. Peduncle stout, 

 ancipitous, 3-8 in. long. Flowers 20-40 in a centripetal umbel ; 

 pedicels stiff, moderately stout, 3-4 in. long ; spathe-valves ovate- 

 lanceolate. Perianth-limb 1 J-2 in. long, pale or bright red ; segments 

 oblanceolate, \ in. broad, hardly at all crisped. Stamens and style 

 declinate, as long as the perianth. Capsule depresso-globose, J-J in. 

 diam. — Kunth, Enum. v. 620. Amaryllis laticoma, Ker in Bot. Ileg. 

 t. 497. Imkq/ia laticoma, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 46. 



Ziow^er Guinea. Hereroland and Amboland (ex Schinz). 

 Also in the Kalahari region of South Africa. 

 No specimen from Tropical Africa at Kew. 



13. PANCRATIUM, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 733. 



Perianth-tube cylindrical, funnel-shaped at the apex ; segments 

 linear or lanceolate, equal, spreading. Stamens inserted at the throat of 

 the perianth-tube ; filaments united in a conspicuous cup at the base, 

 filiform above it ; anthers linear, versatile. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules 

 many in a cell, superposed ; style long, filiform ; stigma capitate, 

 obscurely 3-lobed, Capsule loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds angled by 

 pressure; testa black. — Rootstock a tunicated bulb. Leaves sessile, 

 linear or lorate. Peduncle solid. Flowers white, many or few in an 

 lunbel ; outer spathe-valves 2, lanceolate. 



Species 14, widely spread through the subtemperate and tropical regions of the 

 Old World. 



Leaves much twisted . . . , . . . 1. P. iortuosum. 



Leaves not twisted. 



Staminal cup 1 in. long . . . . . . 2. P. trianthum. 



Stamiual cup 2 in. long . . . . . . 3. P. maximum. 



1. P. tortaosum. Herb, m Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1, iv. 28. Bulb 

 globose, 1 J-2 in. diam., with a long cylindrical neck. Leaves 6-12, linear. 



