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Amaryllis longifolia

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Identification
Amaryllis longifolia ? [family AMARYLLIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for CRINUM longifolium Thunb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
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Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 171, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
CRINUM longifolium Thunb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Prodr. 59;—Thunb. Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 302, non Roxb.; Baker, Handb. Amaryllid. 93.
Amaryllis longifolia Linn. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Sp. Plant. 421; Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 419; Jacq. Ic. t. 362; Red. Lil. t. 347; Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 661; Bot. Reg. tt. 303 and 546.
CRINUM capense Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Amaryllid. 269; Kunth, Enum. v. 579.
Amaryllis capensis Miller [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Gard. Dict. edit. 8, No. 12.
Amaryllis bulbisperma Burm. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], Prodr. Cap. 9.
Crinum riparium Herb. [family AMARYLLIDACEAE], App. 23.
Information
bulb ovoid, 3–4 in. diam., with only a short neck; leaves a dozen or more to a bulb, lorate acuminate, narrowed gradually to the apex, glaucous, firmer in texture than in zeylanicum and Moorei, suberect in the lower half, the outer reaching a length of 2–3 ft. and a breadth of 2–3 in.; distinctly scabrous on the margins; peduncle a foot or more long, but little compressed; flowers 6–12 or more to an umbel; pedicels 1–2 in. long; spathe-valves about 3 in. long; perianth generally more or less tinged with red, rarely pure white, with a curved cylindrical tube 3–4 in. long, and a limb of about the same length, with oblong acute segments 3/4–1 in. broad; stamens nearly as long as the perianth-segments; filaments bright red; anthers linear-oblong, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; style reaching to the tip of the perianth-segments. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Colesberg Div., Shaw!COAST REGION near Cape Town, between the foot of Lion Mountain and the sea-shore, Thunberg! Cathcart Div.; between Windvogel Berg and Zwart Kei 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 4519b!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Gekau, below 4000 ft., Drège, 4519a! Natal; Klip River, 3500–4500 ft., Sutherland!KALAHARI REGION Hopetown Div.; inundated banks of Orange River, Burchell, 2662! Bechuanaland; between Hamapery, near Kuruman, and Kosi Fontein, Burchell, 2525!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; near the mouth of the Orange R. below 600 ft., Drège, 2653!
Notes
It is the most hardy in English gardens, and the most extensively cultivated of any species of the genus, and is one of the parents of numerous hybrids, of which the following have received Latin names:— C. Goweni, a hybrid with zeylanicum; C. Mitchamiæ, with pedunculatum; C. Herberti, with scabrum; C. Puseyæ, with latifolium; C. Wallichii, with careyanum; C. Seymouri, with lineare; C. Roxburghii, with defixum; C. altaclaræ, with erubescens; C. Shepherdi, with cruentum; and C. Powellii, with Moorei. C. Lesemanni, Beck. in Wein. Illust. Gart. Zeit. 1876, 125, t. 1, is identical with C. Powellii.

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