Plate 134.
NERINE LUCIDA.
Cape Province, Orange Free State, Transvaal.
Amaryllidaceae. Tribe Amarylleae.
Nerine, Herb.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 728.
Nerine lucida, Herb. Amaryllid. 283, t. 36, fig. 3; Fl. Cap. vol. vi. p. 214.
This species is, so far as we know, confined to the dry western portions of the Cape Province, S.W. Protectorate, Transvaal, and Orange Free State. Burchell found the plant both in Griqualand West and in Bechuanaland, and Burke on his journey up to the Transvaal found it near the Sand River in the Orange Free State. In habit the species very much resembles a dwarf Brunsvigia, but is distinguished from this genus by the obtusely angled ovary. The short stout peduncle is also found in two other species of Nerine.