39S CXXXTIT. LTLTACE^. 



flexed glandular appendix at the apex, many-nerved, the outer 

 spreadijig, Hattisli, the inner converging. Stamens 6, at the 

 base of tlie sepals, the 8 outer shorter and often barren ; fila- 

 ments filiform, the 3 inner dilated at base. Ovary sessile, 3- 

 celled ; ovules numerous ; style erect, thick, 3-furrowed. 

 Capsule papery. Seeds many, black. — Kunth, I. c. p. 373. 



Bulbous plants, with the habit of Ornithogalum. Racemes lax ; flowers 

 oil long pedicels, cernuous, green yellowish or yellow or striped green and 

 white ; pedicels spreading, with a long, membranous bract at base.— Several 

 species. 



15. UROPETALUM, Gawl. 



Perianth tubular-campanulate, long persistent, at length 

 cut across the base and deciduous ; limb 6-parted, regular, 

 the segments several-nerved, the outer spreading, often long- 

 pointed, inner shorter, broader, more highly connate among 

 themselves, converging. Stamens 6, in the throat, included ; 

 filaments attached to the perianth-tube, free at the tips only. 

 Ovary sessile, oblong, triangular ; ovules numerous ; style 

 erect, bluntly 3-angled ; stigma 3-fid. Capsule papery, ob- 

 ovoid, depressed, sometimes narrowed at base, sharply 3- 

 angled. Seeds numerous, flattened, margin winged, black. — 

 Kunth, I. c. p. 377. 



Bulbous plants. Leaves linear, thickish. Eaceme simple, sparsely 

 flowered ; pedicels short, bracteate at base ; flowers nodding, greenish or 

 yellowish. — Several species, some undescribed, from Natal. 



Tribe 2. Allied ? (Gen. 16-18.) 



16. AGAPANTHUS, L'Her. 



Perianth funnel-shaped, regular, at length cut across the 

 base and deciduous, deeply 6-parted ; tube rather short ; seg- 

 ments subspathulate, 1-nerved, the 3 inner rather larger. 

 Stamens in the throat, decurrent along the tube, declinate, as 

 long as the segments ; filaments filiform. Ovary sessile ; 

 ovules several ; style filiform, curved. Capsule membranous. 

 Seeds flattened, black. — Kunth, I. c. p. 479. 



A. umhellafus, L'Her., a well-known garden plant, is a tuberous-rooted, 

 scapigerous plant. Leaves numerous, radical, broadly linear, thickish. 

 Scape tall, bearing a very-many flowered umbel, involucred by 2 bracts. 

 Flowers blue, rarely white. — Grows in various parts of the colony. There 

 are 3 or 4 varieties, perhaps species. 



17. TULBAGHIA, Linn. 



Perianth funnel- or salver-shaped, tubular, the tube 3- 

 angled, crowned either with a 3-lobed, fleshy corona or with 3 

 petaloid scales ; limb 6-parted, rc^gular ; segments 1-uerved, 



