1610 CXXXI. AMAEYLLIDEiE. [Crimm. 



■angular, segments linear-lanceolate, about 2Jin. long, f to lin. broad near the 

 ■centre, the outer ones with subulate green tips. Stamens erect, less than one- 

 half the length of the segments, upper half of the filaments purple, pink, or in 

 the flowers of some plants white. Anthers narrow, Jin. long, style enclosed in 

 the tube and only about two-thirds its length, the upper part purplish ; stigma 

 obtusely lobed. 

 Hab.: Turtle Island off Somerset. 



6. C. uniflorum (single-flowered), F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 2.3 ; Benth. Fl. 

 ^.Mstc. vi. 454. "Bulb ovate-globular." Leaves 5 or 6 to a bulb, linear, 1 to 

 l|ft. long, 11 to 3 lines broad, flaccid. Scape slender, 6in. to 1ft. high, bearing 

 •only 1 or rarely 2 sessile or shortly pedicellate flowers enclosed in 2 

 bracts of about 2in. in length. Ovary not at all or scarcely contracted 

 at the top. Perianth white, the tube 4 to Sin. long, recurved in the bud ; 

 segments of the limb 2J to Sin. long, 4 to 6 lines broad in the middle. Filaments 

 bright red, l|in. long. Anthers Jin. long and narrow. Style longer than the 

 stamens. Ovules several in a cell. — Baker's Amaryll. 83. 



Hab.; Coen Eiver, Gulf of Carpentaria, R.Brown; Sweer's Island, H«mc; Albany Island, 

 •Cape York, M'Gillwray ; sandy flats exposed to the sun, Somerset, Cape York, Veitch. 



7. C. angustifolium (narrow-leaved), R. Br. Prod. 297; Baker's Handl. 

 ■of Amaryll. 83. Bulb sub-globose, Sin. diameter, the neck short. Leaves 

 .linear, firm in texture, sub- erect, IJ to over 2ft. long, 1 to l|in. broad, tapering 

 to the point, scabrous or serrulate at the margin. Scape 1ft. or more high. 

 'Umbel few-flowered. Involucres bracts lanceolate, 2 or more in. long ; pedicels 

 short. Perianth-tube slender, S to 4in. long, curved in the bud stage. Segments 

 llanceolate, 2J to Sin. long, Jin. broad. Filaments bright-red, IJ to 2in. long. 

 Anthers linear, Jn. long. Style as long as the segments. Ovules 5 to 6 in 

 ■& cell. 



Hab.: Frequently met with inland. Mr. Baker gives the two following forms as varieties of 

 ithls species. 



Var. coji/irtum, Herb, in Bot. Mag. t. 2-522. Flowers sessile ; perianth-segments 4in. long, a 

 little exceeding the tube. 



Var. hlandum, Ro3m. Amaryll. 76, Bot. Mag. t. 2531. Leaves broader than in the type. 

 -Perianth-segments broader. Filaments whitish. 



8. C. pestilentis (ill effects of flowers), Bail. Ql. Agric. Journ, ii. 198; PI. 

 xvii.. Fig. 1 ; showing to separate flowers. Bulb ovate-globular, 3 or 4in. 

 ■ diameter, usually situated 10 or more inches below the surface of the ground. 

 Leaves deep-green, linear, 2 or more ft. long, 1 to IJin. broad, texture firm, 

 margin scabrous. Scape 1 to IJft. high, compressed, f to lin. broad. Flowers 

 pure white or slightly blushed on the outside, about 10 in each umbel. 

 Involucral bracts about 3 to 5Jin. long and fin. broad at the base, sometimes 



'tapering to a narrow point, sometimes almost linear with a broader apex. 

 Pedicels J to IJin. long. Ovary beaked, of equal length with the pedicels or 

 shorter. Perianth-tube 3|in. long. Segments of limb 3 or 4in. long and lin. 

 broad about the middle, the outer with subulate points. Filaments white, not 

 declinate, about half as long as the perianth-segments, anthers lunate about 4 

 lines long. Style slender, nearly the length of the segments, and slightly 

 green in the upper half. Stigma minute. Fruit on stout pedicels about lin. 

 long, compressed globular, but often so bluntly lobed as to appear quadrate, 

 the larger ones about Ifin. diameter but scarcely that high, crowned by the 

 •entire, rigid, green furrowed perianth-tube. Seeds about 8, angular. 



Hab.: Bulloo River, J. F. Bailey. 



I was led to give the above name to the present species from the fact that persons camping in 

 places where it is flowering in qaantities being apt to be seized with violent vomiting. I have 



