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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
Gr. pauciflorutn, Baker , is given in Durand & Schinz 
“ Conspectus Florae Africae ” as a Transvaal species, but having 
neither description nor specimens of it, we must leave it for 
the present. 
Note. — The capsule is given in Baker and Bentham and Hooker as 
few-seeded; in Engler and Bran tl . as many-seeded. 
In the specimens I have examined the capsule is 1-6 seeded. The plant 
is viviparous, for the seeds germinate within the capsule, the roots piercing 
the fruit wall. 
5. Cyrtanthits, Ait. (F.C. VI., 218.) 
Perianth funnel-shaped with a narrow tube, much longer 
than the segments, dilated gradually upwards to the throat, 
segments oblong, nearly equal ; stamens inserted in the tube, 
filaments filiform, long or short, anthers dorsifixed, ovary 
3-loculed, style long, filiform, stigma more or less 3-lobed, 
capsule many-seeded, seeds flattened, black. 
Plants with pendulous or erect, usually white or red 
flowers, solitary or in few- or many-flowered umbels, 
surrounded by 2-4 greenish, lanceolate bracts ; leaves linear 
or lorate, produced with or after the flowers. The genus 
takes its name from the curvature of its flower. 
A species with white flowers is called the Ifafa-Lily. A 
South African genus with 15 known species, of which 5 occur 
in the Transvaal. 
Key to the Species. 
Flowers yellow. 1. 0. lutescens. 
Flowers bright red. 
Umbel many-flowered, 4-10 in an umbel. 
Perianth 1-1J in. long. 2. C. parviflorus. 
Perianth 11,-2 in. long. 3. C. angustifoljns. 
Umbel few flowered, 2-3 fl. in an umbel, or flower solitary. 
Flowers always single, leaves linear. 4. C. Galpini. 
Flowers single or 2-3 umbellate ; leaves lanceolate, 
petiolated. 5. G. sanguineus. 
1. C. lutescens , Herb. (F. C. VI., 225, No. 17.) Barberton, 
5000-5500 ft., Galpin, 654, and without precise locality, 
Sanderson. 
2. C. parviflorus , Baker. Bulb small ; leaves linear, 
flaccid, more than 1 ft. long ; peduncle slender, ^ ft. long ; 
umbel 10 flowered, bracts two, lanceolate, 1^ in. long ; pedicels 
^-1 in. long ; perianth bright red, slightly curved, 1 in. 
long ; segments not spreading, short, broad oblong ; stamens 
3, inserted at the throat of the tube, 3 within, filaments very 
short ; style nearly reaching to the tip of the perianth- 
segments. 
