Plate 25. 

 CYBTANTHUS sanguineus. 

 Cape Province, Transkei, Natal. 



Amaryllideae. Tribe Amarylleae. 

 Cyrtanthus, Ait, ; Benth. et HooTe.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 729. 



Cyrtanthus sanguineus, Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 5218 ; Fl. Cap. vol. vi. 



p. 227. 



This species was imported into England from Kaffraria by 

 Messrs. Backhouse, and presented by them to the Horticultural 

 Society of London in 1846. Two years later, in the Journal 

 of the Society, Dr. Lindley described the plant, and the 

 description was accompanied by a woodcut. In 1860 a plant 

 flowered in the greenhouse at Kew, and was figured and 

 described in the Botanical Magazine, t. 5218, by Hooker. The 

 specimens from which the present illustration was made were 

 gathered by Miss K. A. Lansdell at Krantzkloof, Natal. The 

 plant is known as the " Kei Lily." 



Desceiption : — Bulb about 4*5 cm. long, ovoid, produced 

 into a distinct neck, with parchment-like scales. Leaves 

 1-4, contemporary with the flowers, 22-30 cm. long, '5-2 cm. 

 broad, linear, obtuse, narrowed more or less suddenly in the 

 lowermost third to form a petiole, glabrous. Peduncle 12-26 

 cm. long, bearing 1-2 flowers. Spathes two, 4-6*5 cm. long, 

 tapering into a long appendage from a broadened base. 

 Pedicels up to 2 cm. long, glabrous. Perianth-tube 4-6 cm. 

 long, campanulate in the upper half, cylindric in the lower 

 half ; lobes 4 cm. long, 1*8 cm. broad, ovate, acuminate, acute, 

 with the apices of the outer lobes inflexed and forming a small 

 hood. Stigmas with minute papillae on their inner faces. 



Plate 25. — Fig. 1, portion of apex of perianth-lobe ; Fig. 2, upper portion 

 of style showing stigmas. 



F.P.S.A., 1921. 



