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ordinate name. That given it by Linnaeus implies 
a spotting, as if by drops of water sprinkled on it, 
which does not belong to Ciliaris. 
The leaves in this genus are annual; the peduncles trian- 
gular, crowdedly suberect, afterwards diverging to form a 
spherical head. The perianth is smaller, the stigma more 
acute, than in Ammocharis. It is placed under Brunsvigia 
in the Bot. Reg. referring to the character of that genus at 
p. 192, which is framed with a long string of alternatives, 
including three differences of seed, and cannot possibly be 
maintained. The inflorescence of this genus approximates 
closely to a portion of Hgemanthus, especially H. carneus, 
but it departs widely from that genus in its fruit, which 
approaches nearer to Brunsvigia. 
65. Ammocharis. — Leaves vernal, not sheathing; tube cy- 
lindrical, enlarged, sepals not imbricating thereon ; 
filaments adnate at the base of the limb almost equally; 
anthers short, affixed at the middle ; pollen minute ; 
stigma obtuse, one or two lobes obsolete ; capsule 
turbinate, 3-valved, 3-celled, 3-furrowed. 
1. Falcata. — Amar. falc. Bot. Mag. 35. 1443. 
2. Coranica. — Am. Coran. Bot. Reg. 2. 139. 
Var. 2. Pallida. — Bot. Reg. 15. 1219. 
Ammocharis is an intermediate gradation between Bu- 
phane and Crinum, differing from the latter in anthers, 
pollen, capsule, filaments inserted just within, instead of 
without, the tube, which is wider at the mouth, a shorter 
proportionate limb, and leaves not sheathing at the base. 
The particles of its pollen are much smaller. From Buphane 
it is distinguished by leaves that sprout again identically, 
like those of Crinum, after a period of rest, the wider mouth 
of the tube, the insertion of the filaments within the tube, 
and the difference of the ovules which are more numerous. 
Those of Ammocharis and Crinum adhere inseparably by 
one whole side to an intermediate body or placenta ; those 
of Buphane are separately attached, closing together from 
two threads, instead of proceeding from a solid mass, which 
is a decisive generic feature. The habits are quite different 
from those of Amaryllis, Brunsvigia, and Nerine, which 
flower in autumn before the appearance of their leaves. 
Ammocharis produces its foliage in the spring, some time 
before the blossom appears, and lies at rest in the winter. 
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