408 cxxxvn. amaryllide^ (baker). [HymenoccUlis. 



14. HYMENOCALLIS, Salisb. ; Benth. et Hook f. Gen.Pl. iii. 734. 



Perianth hypocrateriform ; tube cylindrical ; segments equal, linear 

 or lanceolate. Stamens united in the lower part in a distinct cup; 

 free portion of filaments filiform; anthers linear, versatile. Ovary 

 8-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; style long, filiform ; stigma capitate., 

 obscurely 3-lobed. Capsule large, globose, finally dehiscent. Seeds 

 large, globose, usually solitary, with a thick spongy testa, — Rootstock a 

 tunicated bulb. Leaves sessile, lorate or oblong, narrowed to a petiole. 

 Peduncle solid, compressed. Flowers usually pure white, many in an 

 umbel. 



Species 30 ; all the others are Americai), and the African plant may have been 

 introduced from the New World. 



1. H. senegaxnbica^ Kujith <i' Bouche in Ind. Sem. Hort, Berol. 

 1848, 12. Leaves sessile, ensiform, acute, arcuate, 2 ft. long, lJ-2 in. 

 broad at the middle, narrowed to 1 in. at the base. Peduncle about as 

 long as the leaves. Flowers 0-8 in an umbel, sessile ; spathe-valves 

 ovate. Perianth-tube slender, 5-G in. long; segments narrowly linear, 

 about 4 in. long. Staminal cup funnel-shaped, 1 in. long; free 

 filaments 2-2J in. long ; anthers linear, 1 in. long. — Kunth, Enum. 

 V. 670. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : cultivated at the Berlin Botanic Garden in 

 1 848 ! Lagos : cultivated specimen. Carter 1 



IiO\eer Guinea. Angola : sandy shores between Ambriz and Quizembo, Wel- 

 icUsch, 4029 ! 



Messrs. Dickson, of Chester, sent to Kew in 1892 a bulb of H. paludosa, Salisb. 

 {Pancratium mexicanum, Linn.), a native of the Southern United States, sent to them 

 from Lagos. 



15. VELLOZIA, Vand. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 739. 



Perianth funnel-shaped, without any tube above the ovary ; segments 

 subequal, ovate-lanceolate. Stamens in the Tropical African species 

 (section Xerophyta), inserted at the base of the segments; filaments 

 filiform, often appendiculate with a lacerated scale at the base ; anthers 

 linear, basifixed, dehiscing laterally. Ovary clavate, 3-celled ; ovules 

 many, superposed ; style filiform ; stigma terminal, 3-lobed or trifur- 

 cate. Capsule coriaceous, dehiscing at the apex. Seeds angled or flat- 

 tened; testa black; embryo small, included in albumen. — Usually shrubs, 

 with linear rigid leaves in a tuft at the end of the branches. Peduncles 

 1-flowered. Ovary and flower often viscous outside. Flowers usually 

 white. 



Species 60, mostly Tropical American. Found also in Madagascar, and 1 species 

 in Arabia. 



Caudex not produced. 



Leaves 1-2 in. long 1. F. hmnilis. 



Leaves 4-5 in. long . . . . . . 2. F. Ilildehrandtii. 



Leaves 6-12 in. long. 



