Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
47 
A list of species and many of the locality records were 
kindly furnished to me by J. Burtt-Davy, Esq., Botanist 
and Agrostologist to the Transvaal Department of Agriculture, 
from his card-catalogue of Transvaal plants. Dr. Harry Bolus^ 
of Kenilworth, near Capetown, was also kind enough to give 
me a list of localities of Transvaal Amaryllids, represented in 
his splendid Herbarium. 
AMARYLLIDACEiE, NARCISSUS-FAMILY. 
(FI. Cap. Yol. VI., 171.) 
Flowers regular or irregular, always hermaphrodite. 
Perianth coloured, tubular with 6-parted limb or 6-parted to 
the base. Stamens (3 ; anthers introrse. Ovary inferior, 
3-loculed ; style entire ; stigma entire or 3-lobed. Fruit a 
capsule or a berry, mostly with few seeds. 
Generally stemless, bulbous plants with radical, ensiform 
or linear leaves and handsome, bright-coloured flowers, 
which are entomo}jhilous, rarely ornithophilous. 
Closely related to the Liliacese, but at once distinguished 
by the inferior ovary. 
The Amaryllidaceae are widely spread in the tropical and 
sub-tropical regions of both hemispheres ; only few are found 
in temperate regions. The Cape Flora especially is rich in 
representatives. The bulbs of some genera are poisonous and 
of others are used as medicines ; the leaves of a few genera 
supply fibre for ropes. 
In the Transvaal we find till now (perhaps more may be 
found) 11 endemic genera with 36 species and one American 
genus (Agave), escaped from cultivation. 
SYNOPSIS OF THE GENERA. 
Subterranean part of plant a conn. Flowers in corymbs or 
racemes with often discoloured perianth. Fruit a capsule. 
Stemless plants with radical leaves. 
Hypoxidece. 
Only one genus. 1. Hypoxis. 
Subterranean part of plant a rhizome. Flowers in racemes or 
panicles on a very long, stout peduncle. Fruit a fleshy 
capsule. Stem with very short internodes and whorls of very 
large, thick and fleshy leaves. 
Agavoidece. 
Only one genus. 2. Agave. 
Subterranean part of plant a bulb. Flowers in umbels or 
solitary with coloured perianth. Fruit a capsule or a berry. 
Stemless plants with radical leaA^es. 
AmaryUidece. 
