Homeria.) IRIDEZ (Baker) 27 
or the three inner narrow. Stamens with filaments connate in a 
cylindrical column, and large linear anthers opposite the style- 
branches. Ovary clavate, with the ovules crowded and superposed ; 
style filiform, with three small, petaloid, emarginate branches, papil- 
lose round the outer margin. Capsule clavate, operculate. Seeds 
small, globose, angled by pressure. 
Rootstock a tunicated corm ; produced leaf usually one only, linear, overtopping 
the stem; clusters one or few, the side ones shortly peduncled; spathes 
cylindrical, with few successive fugacious flowers, yellow or fulvous, 
Disteis, An endemic Cape genus. 
Perianth-segments with a blotch in the middle, 
Segments all obtuse, with a minute cusp ... ie .. (1) elegans. 
Inner segments lanceolate, acute ... ive ai ... (23) maculata. 
Perinnth-segments not blotched in the middle. 
Flowers large; spathes 24-3 in. long: 3 
Leaf not vittate jes ‘ss es see eee «. (3) colliva. 
Leaf with a white central band oe TC ..» (4) lineata, 
Flowers small ; spathes 14-2 in. long: 
Flower pale yellow... = see ies a ... (5) pallida. 
Flower fulvous red... tee edi im Re ... (6) miniata. | 
1. H. elegans (Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 498); corm globose, 3 in, 
diam., with thick brown tunics ; produced leaf one, subbasal, linear, 
firm in texture, strongly ribbed, a foot or more long, $4 in. broad, over- 
topping the stem ; stem a foot or more long; clusters 1-4, on short, 
erect peduncles; perianth-limb broadly infundibuliform, 1-12 in. 
long, the outer segments fulvous, and the inner yellow, or all the 
six yellow, oblanceolate-oblong, with a cusp 4-3 in. broad, the three 
outer with a large green or yellow-brown blotch in the middle; 
stamens 3 in. long, the linear anthers equalling the cylindrical column ; 
ovary cylindrical-trigonous, 4 in. long; style-branches with two 
small quadrate crests ; capsule clavate, ? in. long, with three rigid 
valves, Baker, Handb. Irid. 74. Morea elegans, Jacq. Hort. 
Schoenbr. i. 6, t.12; Ker in Bot. Mag. sub t. 1103 ; Pers. Syn. i, 49; 
Ker, Gen. Irid. 33. Sisyrinchium elegans, Willd. Sp, Plant. iii. 577 ; 
Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. i. 491, excl. syn. H. spicata, Klatt in 
Linnea, xxxiv. 626, in part; Hrgdnz. 52. Morea spicata, Ker in 
Bot. Mag. sub t. 1103 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1283 ; Gen. Irid, 33, 
South AFrica: without locality, Thunberg! Stanger! Mundt! 
Coast Reeton: Caledon Diy., Kleinriver Kloof, 1000-3000 ft., Zeyher, 4078 ! 
on the Zwartberg near Caledon, 400 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 799! 
2. H. maculata (Klatt in Linnea, xxxiv. 627) ; corm globose; tunic: 
thick and cancellate ; produced leaf narrow linear, overtopping the 
stem, 1 in. broad ; stem 3-1 ft. long ; spathes cylindrical, peduncled, 
2-21 in. long; perianth an inch long, the segments yellow, with a 
greenish claw, and a semilunar, greenish blotch above the base, the 
outer 4 in. broad, obtuse, the inner oblanceolate, acute; forks of 
stigma linear, acute ; capsule, cylindrical, § in. long. Ergdnz. 52; 
Baker, Handb. Irid, 74. 
Coast Reaction : Caledon Div., Ecklon and Zeyher, 38, 259, fide Klatt. 
