Barberetta.] HEMODORACEZE (Baker). 8 
perfect, containing a single ovule ; 1-2 small, empty ; style filiform ; 
stigma capitate. Fruit unknown. 
Diste1s. Endemic. 
1, B. aurea (Harv. Gen. S. Afr. Pl. edit. 2, 377); rootstock 
tuberous ; leaves about 3, superposed, sessile, lanceolate, glabrous, 
membranous, 4-1 ft. long, 4-1 in. broad at the middle, narrowed 
very gradually to both ends, furnished with five very distinct vertical 
ribs, with several finer ones between each pair; stem weak, 4-1 ft. 
long, slightly hairy upwards ; raceme deuse, simple, 2-3 in. long ; 
pedicels ascending, lower 4-3 in. long; bract lanceolate, persistent, 
wrapped round the pedicel ; perianth bright orange, glabrous, } in. 
long ; stains paper red. 
Eastern ReGion: Kaffraria; Isomo tiga Bowker and Mrs. Barber, 880 ! 
Natal; York Bush, in damp shady places, McKen! ~ : ; 
III. DILATRIS, Berg. 
Perianth slit down to the ovary; segments subequal, linear or 
oblong. Stamens 3, attached to the base of the inner segments; 
filaments filiform ; anthers small, versatile. Ovary globose, inferior, 
3-celled ; ovules solitary in the cells; style filiform ; stigma minute, 
terminal. Capsule globose, hairy, rigid, indehiscent or finally 
dehiscing loculicidally, Seeds solitary, discoid. 
Rootstock short, woody. Leaves several in a distichous basal rosette, rigid. 
Peduncle hairy, elongated, with a few reduced leaves. Flowers numerous, 
forming a short congested panicle. 
DistR1B. Endemic. 
Perianth-segments oblong; hairs not viscous ... nee ». (1) corymbosa. 
Perianth-segments linear; huirs gland-tipped... ... ... (2) viscosa. 
1. D. corymbosa (Berg. Cap. 9 t. 3, fig. 5); basal leaves 
numerons, linear, rigid, subglabrous, 6-15 in. long, 4-4 in. broad, 
acuminate ; ribs immersed; peduncle 1-14 ft. long, densely hairy 
upwards, with a few small erect linear leaves ; flowers very numerous, 
arranged in a very dense panicle 2-3 in. diam.; main branches 
umbellate ; ovary globose, clothed like the branches with short, dense, 
soft, spreading, whitish hairs; perianth-segments oblong, much im- 
bricated, purplish, 34 in. long ; stamens shorter than the perianth- 
segments ; capsule globose, very hairy, the size of a small pea, 
crowned by the accrescent scariose segments; seed orbicular, hairy, 
discoid. Thunb. Prodr.10; Smith, Exot. Bot.i.29t.16. D, wmbel- 
lata, Linn. fil. Suppl. 101; Roem. et Schultes Syst. Veg. i. 483. 
D. ixioides, Lam. Ill. Gen. 127. Ixia hirsuta, Linn. Mant. 27. 
Coast Region: Camps Bay, Pappe! Burchell, 323! Simons Bay, Mac- 
Gilivray, 472! Milne, 176! = Div. and Dutoit’s Kloof, Drége! Baviaan’s 
Kloof, near Genadendal, Burchell, 7865! Worcester Div., Cooper, 1658! 
2. D. viscosa (Linn. fil. Suppl. 101); rootstock very thick, 
short, vertical; basal leaves ensiform, glabrous, coriaceous, 6-9 in. 
long, 1-4 in. broad ; stem very hairy, }-1 ft. long, with a few 
