PLATE 520. 



Nebinb appendioulata, Bakee. (F1. Cap. Vol. VI, p. 213.) 

 Natural Order, Amaeyllidb^. 



Bulb ovoid, tapering upwards, 1^ inch diameter, tunics thin, scarcely 

 membranous, containing many exceedingly fine fibres. Leaves 3-4, contemporary 

 with the flowers, linear, green, glabrous, 1 to 2 feet long, deeply channelled down 

 the- face. Inflorescence a few flowered umbel; peduncle stout, terete, 2 feet to 



2 feet 6 inches long, bearing 10 to 25 flowers; spathe- valves 2, up to 2 to 2 J 

 inches long by 7 lines wide in central portion, oblong but tapering to an obtuse 

 apex, tinged with pink ; pedicels 2 to 3 inches long, pubescent, the minute hairs 

 transparent and cellular. Perianth reddish pink, 6-parted to base, segments 

 linear-strap-shaped, keeled, the alternate ones minutely thickened at apex; 

 1 to 1^ inch long, 2 lines wide, undulate in upper portion, strongly reflexed. 

 Stamens 6, inserted at base of perianth tube, filaments filiform, thickened at 

 base, declinate, unequal, three a little shorter; each having at base outside a 

 membranous white appendage which is divided into 2-4 narrow acuminate erect 

 teeth; anthers when unopened 3-lines long, oblong. Ovary 3-lobed, 3-celled, 



3 lines diameter, few ovuled, ovules superposed ; style slender, obscurely 3-lobed 

 at apex. Capsule globose, deeply 3-lobed, membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds 1 or more in a cell, pear-shaped, glabrous. 



Habitat: Natal: Near Greytown 4500 feet, March, Wood 9834! ; same locality, 

 Wood, May; Hilton Road, 3-4000 feet, March, Wylie in Herb., Wood 11091. 



The genus Nerine is confined to South Africa and includes 15 species of 

 which 3 are found in Natal ; specimens of this species were first collected between 

 Greytown and Weenen, and it is somewhat remarkable that on the same morning 

 and within 500 to 1000 yards of each other the writer collected two species ; on 

 one side of the spur of a hill in a moist place N. pancratioides, Baker, with white 

 flowers, and on the other side the species here figured ; this was in May, 1 890, 

 both species at that time being undescribed. 



The well known " Guernsey Lily " is Nerine sarniensis. Herb, and is a native 

 of the Cape Colony ; this and several others of the genus are in cultivation in 

 Europe; 



Fig. 1, three stamens showing appendages at base : 2, anther ; 3, pistil ; 

 4, cross section of ovary ; 5, capsule, natural size, remainder enlarged. 



