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AMARYLLIDACEiE. 
and have been inconvenient to the public. I had not observed 
the name thus suggested loosely by Heister for venusta, 
when the genus Nerine was established, or I should have pre- 
ferred it. 
73. Carpolyza. — Umbel pedunculated; spathe 2-valved ; 
limb semi-patent, regular ; tube short, funnel-shaped ; 
filaments adnate to the whole tube, the alternate a 
little shorter; anthers oblong, attached at the base, 
not versatile; style thick, furrowed, triangular, slen- 
derer upwards; stigma trifid, recurved, fimbriated; 
germen obovate, 3-furrowed ; capsule 3-celled, 3- 
valved ; seeds green, rounded on the back. 
1. Spiralis. — Specim. Herb. Bank. PI. 29. f. 9. — Dis- 
sections from Salisbury, Paradisus London. 63. — 
Crinum tenellum. Jacq. Coll. S. 43. ic. r. 2. t. 363. 
Crinum spirale. Bot. Rep. 92. — Amaryllis Spiralis. 
L'Her. S. A. p. 10. — Strumaria Spiralis. Bot. Mag. 
33. 1834. — Haemanthus spiralis. Linn. fil. in Hort. 
Kew. — Thunb. Prod. 58. 
A very neat little plant, with filiform spiral leaves, and 
the lower part of the scape singularly spiral ; spathe an inch 
long, acute, flowers few, sometimes but one, about f- of an 
inch, white; sepals red on the outside, tipped with green; 
alternate anthers mature first, peduncles about li inch. 
Found by Masson near Cape Town. 
When each successive writer refers a plant to a different 
genus, as in this case, it may with great probability be sur- 
mised that it belongs to none of them. Mr. Salisbury de- 
fined the genus and named it, giving excellent dissections, in 
the year 1807 ; and nothing but the confusion in which the 
whole order was involved, could have prevented the earlier 
adoption of the name he gave to it. The genera Imhofia and 
Carpolyza bear the same relation to Strumaria, as Hessea does 
to Brunsvigia and Nerine, distinguished by anthers erect and 
not versatile, a most decisive feature. Carpolyza differs 
from Imhofia in the tube, the shajoe of the anther, the form 
of the style and stigma. 
Suborder 5. Narcisse^e. — Perianth tubed ; cup including 
the filaments ; sepaline filaments prolonged, sepals 
(when unequal, and I believe always), wider than 
the petals ; scape hollow upwards, more or less 
filled up below; peduncles solid, unequal. The 
