154 MR. J. G, baker's ststema iribacearum 



ribits 



lihus graminoideis JlahellatiSy caulinis paucis reductis^ flo- 



laxe spicatisy spathis unifloris, valvis parvis lanceolatis 



acutis integris viridihus,Jloris limho albido velruhro. A Lapey- 



rousia prcesertim recedit foliis radicalihus congestis Jlahellatis 



et Jloribus in spicain unicam vel profunde furcatam dispositis. 



1. A. jruNCEA, Ker in Konig ^" Sims, Ann. i. 227 ; Reich. Uort. t. 111. 

 Gladiolus junceus, Linn, SuppL 94 ; Red. Lil. t. 141. — Laj)eyrousia 

 juncea, Pourr. Act. Tolos. iii. 15. — Ixia spicata, Burm. FL Cap. i. 

 (1768). — Gladiolus polystachyus, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. (iS. — G. marrao- 

 ratus. Lam. III. \. 118. — G. paniculatus, Pers. Syn. i. 45. — G. excisus, 

 Jacq. Hort. Schoen. t. 491. — Ixia excisa, Linn. SuppL 92ynon Thunb. 



Ixia Gawleri, Schrad. Journ. iv. 67. — Gladiolus amabilis, Salisb. 

 Prodr, 4. — Ixia emarginata, Vahl, Enum. ii. 2/0. — Gladiolus seti- 

 folius, Linn. Supph 96. C B. Spei, 



2. A. CRUENTA, LindL Bot. Reg. t. 1639; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1857; 

 Pawt. Mag. i. 103, cum icone. C. B. Spei, Natal. 



3. A, GRANDiFLORA, Baler inTrimen^s Joum. 1876, 337. Africa austro- 

 tropicalis in terra Jluminis Zambesi. 



4. A. ANGOLENSis, Baker in Trimen^s Journ. 1876, S37. Angola. 



<Sf 



Gladioli et Ixise 



sp., Thunb. etc. 



Perianfhium subregulare vel leviter Irregulare, tubo supra ovarium 

 cylindrico brevi vel elongate plus minus curvato, segmentis ob- 

 longo-spatbulatis fauce maculatis subsequalibus vel 3 inferion- 

 bus minoribus flore expanso magis patulis. Stamina 3 ad 

 faucem tubi inserta, filamentis arcuatis brevibus filiformibus 

 ssepissime contiguis parallelis, antberis oblongis basifixis. 

 Ovarium triloculare, ovulis in loculo crebris ; stylics filiformia, 

 ex tubo brevlter protrusus, stigmatibus brevibus subulatis bi- 

 fidis ramis divaricatis. Capsula parva oblonga vel globosa 

 torulosa membranacea loculicide trivalvis, seminibus crebris 

 minutis globosis, testa brunnea membranacea, albumine comeo. 

 Serhw buTbosdd capenses et africancd tropicales, huJbi tunicis mem- 

 hranaceis vel Jlbroso-reticulatis hasi circumscissis , foliis paucis 



i 



54. Lapeykousia, JPourret. ^ i 



ourret in Trans. Acad. Tolos. iii. 79, t. 6 (1788) ; Ker, Gen. Irid. 

 107, non Thunb. (1800).— Ovieda, Spreng. Sysf. Veg. i. 147; 

 Klatt in LinncBU, xxxii, 776. — Meristostigma, Dietrich, Synops. 

 i. 126.— Peyrousia, 8weet, Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 499.— Sophronia, 



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