262 Plants and their Ways in South Africa 



always cymose. Flowers in umbels, corymbs, or single. Distinguished 

 from the Lily family by the inferior ovary. 



Tribe I. HYPOXIDE^;. Rootstock acorm. Flowers without a spathe 



below, usually yellow, and hairy outside. 

 Pauridia. Stamens 3, opposite inner segments. 

 Curculigo. Stamens 6. Fruit indehiscent, produced into a long 



beak beneath the perianth. 

 Hypoxis. Stamens 6. Capsule splitting around at the centre, 



not produced into a beak, or rarely beaked. 



Tribe II. AMARYLLIDE^. Rootstock a bulb. Leaves all radical. 



Flowers never hairy outside, usually in an umbel with a spathe 



below. 



* Anthers basifixed. 



Hessea. Anthers small. Perianth cut down to the base. 

 Carpolyza. Anthers small. Perianth with a tube. 

 Anoiganthus. Anthers long, arrow-shaped. Flowers in umbels. 

 Gethyllis. Flowers solitary, with a long tube and a flat spread- 

 ing limb. Stamens in a single row ; anthers linear. 

 Apodolirion. Flowers solitary ; perianth funnel-shaped. Stamens 



in two rows ; anthers linear. 

 ** Anthers attached at the back, swinging. 



Fruit indehiscent, bursting regularly. Seeds one or few, bulb-like. 

 Crinum. Segments of the perianth broad. Stamens declinate 



(filaments bending down toward the lower side of the flower, and 



then curving upward toward the anthers). Leaves persistent 



(with the flowers). 

 Amaryllis. Lobes of the perianth broad. Stamens declinate. 



Leaves short-lived, withering before flowering. 

 Ammocharis. Lobes of the perianth narrow. Stamens erect. 

 Fruit a 3-parted capsule. Seeds many, flattened. 

 Brunsvigia. Perianth cut down to the ovary. Style not swollen at 



the base. Capsule turbinate (top-shaped), sharply angled. 

 Nerine. Perianth cut down to the ovary. Style not swollen near 



the base. Capsule globose, obtusely angled. 

 Strumaria. Perianth cut down to the base. Style swollen, and 



3-angled near the base. 



Vallota. Perianth with a tube rather shorter than the limb. 

 Cyrtanthus. Perianth with a tube longer than the limb. 

 Fruit a berry or capsule. Ovules 2 or 3, clustered at the middle of 



the placentas. 

 Clivia. Bulb imperfect. Bracts below the umbel, several. Fruit 



a berry. 

 Haemanthus. Bulb large, with thick scale leaves in two ranks. 



Bracts under the umbel, several. Fruit a berry, 

 Buphane. Fruit a capsule. Bracts 2, 



