IMANTOPHYLLUMS 567 
IMANTOPHYLLUMS 
Natural Order AMARYLLIDEH. Genus Clivia 
CiivIA (named in honour of a Duchess of Northumberland, a 
member of the Clive family). A genus of three species of evergreen 
bulbous plants, with strap-shaped leaves in two rows, from amid which 
arises the flattened scape, bearing an umbel of drooping flowers. The 
perianth is funnel-shaped and six-parted, the divisions nearly equal. 
The six stamens are equal and protrude slightly; the style bears a three- 
lobed stigma. The species are South 
Clivias are better sive in gardens as Jmanto- 
ohyllums, sometimes spelled without an ”. The history 
of the genus is chiefly philological. C. nobilis was introduced from 
South Africa in 1828, and Sir W. J. Hooker founded the genus 
Imatophylium, signifying plants with leaves like leather thongs. 
Sprengel corrected this into Himantophyllum, but finally this got 
further corrected by dropping the H. Lindley, however, called it 
Clivea, since corrected to Clivia, and Sir William Hooker proposed 
to restrict his genus to the species depicted in our Plate 263, which 
he called Jmantophyllum miniatum. This, however, is now in- 
cluded among Clivias, and the specific name has been corrected by 
Regel to miniata. Recently many seedling forms of this species have 
been raised and named in gardens, but many of them are scarcely 
distinguishable from the type. This species was introduced from 
Natal in 1854, and C. Gardeni came from the same locality in 1862. 
C. cyrtanthiflorwm is a garden hybrid between C. miniata and 
C. nobilis. 
History. 
CLIVIA CYRTANTHIFLORUM (Cyrtanthus - flowered). 
Flowers large, salmon-pink or pale flame-coloured, with 
white centre and greenish tips, cup-shaped, drooping; umbels many- 
flowered ; winter and spring. 
C. GarpEnt (Garden’s). Biawilhx reddish orange or yellow, 2 to 3 
inches long; umbel ten- to fourteen-flowered; scape from 1 to 2 feet 
high ; eketon 
C. MINIATA (red). Flowers bright orange, yellowish at base; ten to 
twenty in an umbel; scape 1 to 2 feet high; spring and summer. Plate 
263. The var. splendens has brighter, deeper-coloured flowers. There 
are many garden varieties, three of the finest being es aii Linden, 
and splendens. 
Species. 
