232 
AM ARYLLIDACEiE. 
cannot be determined without such consideration. Many of 
the points set forth in generic definitions are, in themselves, 
unimportant, except as being symptomatic of some more 
essential difference. The distinctions of a hollow or a solid 
scape, and of seminal structure, are insurmountable barriers, 
and I believe it to be as impossible for Clivia to breed with 
a Cyrtanthus or Phycella, to which it has been also likened, 
as with an oak tree ; but when I compare it with Haeman- 
thus I find such a conformity, that to distinguish it I must 
rely on a drooping peduncle, an inequality and obliquity of 
the perianth, the number of ovules, the permanency of its 
leaves, and the length of time the seeds are ripening ; and I 
can only rely upon such distinctions by judging from ana- 
logy that they probably indicate a natural diversity, and I 
still look to experimental attempts to cross it with Haeman- 
thus, in order to establish whether they are symptomatic or 
unimportant features ; but when I consider the graduated 
diversity of form in the genus Hsemanthus, that carneus has 
a disposition to drooping peduncles, that Puniceus has some 
obliquity of perianth, that multiflorus and puniceus disagree 
marvellously from the rest in root and leaf, yet depart from 
each other and agree respectively with different species in 
the flower, I cannot look upon the distinction of Clivia with 
decided confidence, though I believe it to be well founded. 
63. Htemanthus.— Spathe 3-many-valved ; perianth nearly 
regular, tube straight ; filaments straight, inserted in 
the top of the tube ; anthers short, suberect ; lobes of 
stigma three or obsolete ; pericarp valveless, furrow- 
less, often coloured, middle coat pulpy ; cells with 
one ovule, dissepiments obsolete. 
§. 1. Bidbo ovato, folds cylindraceo-vaginantibus, undulatis. 
Bulb ovate, leaves cylindrically sheathing, undulated. 
A. Limb patent. 
1. Multiflorus. — Bot. Mag. 24. 961. et 45. 1995. Lodd. 
B. C. 1948. Spathe 3-leaved, drooping, and 
withering. Sierra Leone. 
2. Abyssinicus. — Specim. Salt. Herb. Lambert, ex 
Abyssinia. Spatlia plurivalvi 1| - unc. purpurea 
reflexa, floribus numerosissimis, pedunc. 1^-unc. 
floribus H. multifioro dimidio vel ultra minoribus. 
Many-valved purple reflex spathe, flowers very 
