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* Morphiocia paniculata , Baker, (Ixia paniculata, De la Roche Diss 
26 ; tab. 1 ; Tritonia longiflora, Gawl. in Rot. Mag. tab . 1502), a native 
of the Cape, in fields round Bois Cheri. Bulb small, globose, with 
membranous tunics. Leaves narrow, linear, small. Spike usually 
simple, few-flowered ; spathe- valves small, membranous, truncate and 
toothed at the tip. Blowers whitish, with a very long (2-3 inch) 
cylindrical tube, dilated at the top and six oblong uniform oblong 
lobes under an inch long. Stamens not emerging from the tube. Capsule 
small, globose. 
* Watsonia Meriana , Ker ; Bot. Mag. tab. 418, a native of the Cape, 
in fields near Moka and Jdeduit, and on the shoulder of the Pouce. 
Bulb globose, surrounded and crowned by a network of coarse fibres. 
Leaves hard, dry, linear. Flowers few, in a lax simple spike ; spathe- 
valves moderately large, lanceolate, entire, coriaceous. Perianth bright 
scarlet, 2-3 inches long, with lanceolate equal segments reaching down 
a third of its length, and the curved tube filiform in the lower and 
broadly cylindrical in the upper half. Stamens reaching the mouth of 
the limb, the style cut into 6 subulate falcate stigmatose divisions. 
Lis du Cap djleurs roses. 
* Antholyza cethiopica , Linn. ; Bot. Mag. tab. 561, a native of the 
Cape, in fields near Moka- Rootstock bulbous. Leaves large, thin, 
ensiform, distichous. Flowers few or many in a simple spike ; spathe- 
valves small, lanceolate, entire. Perianth red and yellow, 2-3 in. long, 
with a limb of six very unequal oblanceolate spathulate lobes and a 
curved cylindrical tube, narrow and slender at the base. Stamens 
reaching to the tip of the limb. Style cleft into three subulate forks 
at the tip. Lis du Cap. 
Order XCY. AMARYLLIDACE^]. 
Perianth superior, corolline, the six subequal lobes free down to the 
ovary or more or less joined above it. Stamens 6, perigynous or 
epigynous ; filaments free or united in a corona ; anthers versatile, 
introrse. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; placentation axile ; style simple ; 
stigma capitate. Fruit usually a capsule with loculicidal dehiscence. 
Seeds with an embryo in the centre of abundant albumen. — Bulbous 
herbs, or shrubby, with fleshy leaves ; flowers usually large and 
showy. Disteib. Cosmopolitan, mainly warm temperate. Species 
500. 
Bulbous herbs. 
Flowers small , with lobes free down to the ovary .... * .Nerine. 
Flowers large, with a long tube above the ovary .... 1 . Ckinum. 
Shrubby, not bulbous. 
Perianth with a tube above the ovary and ascending 
limb * Agave. 
Perianth with 6 lobes spreading irom the top of the 
ovary * Fourcroya. 
