82 inipEz (Baker). [ Hewaglottis. 
very short, flattened, connivent in a tube; anthers large, linear. 
Ovary cylindrical, 3-celled; ovules crowded, superposed; style 
short, the three branches patent with two linear forks, which are 
stigmatose at the tip. Capsule firm, cylindrical, 3-valved. Seeds 
minute, oblong, turgid. 
Rootstock a small tunicated corm. Produced leaves usually two, long, linear, 
or terete. Inflorescence a panicle with spicate branches; flowers fugacious, 
yellow, 3-4 to a spathe. 
Disrais. An endemic Cape genus. 
Leaf narrow linear ia és ey) ssa see 1) longifolia. 
Leaf terete Ay] sae pe aga Bei iat 2) virgata. 
1. H. longifolia (Vent. Decad. 6); corm ovoid, 3-1 in. diam. ; 
tunics thick, of hard, black, parallel ribs; produced leaves 1-2, over- 
topping the stem, narrow linear, glabrous, strongly ribbed; stem 
slender, erect, 1-13 ft. long; inflorescence a panicle with long 
spicate branches, the central one sometimes a foot long, bearing 6-8 
clusters; spathes cylindrical, 1-14 in. long, 3—-4-flowered; valves 
firm in texture, closely ribbed, with long scariose cusps; perianth 
yellow, 3 in. long, segments } in. broad, with a many-ribbed keel ; 
anthers linear, 4 in. long; style-branches } in. long, forked half- 
way down; capsule clavate {-? in. long. Salish. in Trans. Hort. 
Soc. i. 313; Baker, Handb. Irid. 76. Morea flexuosa, Linn. fil. 
Suppl. 100; Thunb. Diss. No. 12; Prodr. 11; Fl Gap. i. 272; 
Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 695; Gen. Irid. 33. Homeria spicata, Klatt 
tn Linnea, xxxiv. 626, in part. Stsyrinchium fleeuosum, Spreng. Syst. 
i, 167. Ixia longifolia, Jacq. Hort. Vind. iii, 47, t. 90; Morea 
longifolia, Pers. Syn. i. 49. Hegaglotiis fleruosa, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 
edit. 2, 498. Plantia flava, Herbert in Bot. Reg. xxx. Misc. 89. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 16431 1644! 
Coast Brcion: Clanwilliam and Piguetberg Div., Thunberg! Vicinity of 
Cape Town and Rondebosch, Ecklon, 9b! 586! Burchell, 34! 202! 252/1! 
MacGillivray, 479! George Div., Bolus, 2484! Burchell, 6107! 6151! Uiten- — 
hage Div., Van Staden’s Hoogte, MacOwan, 2055! 
2. H. virgata (Sweet, Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 498); very near H. 
longifolia, of which it is likely only a variety, and from which it 
only differs by its more slender habit and terete leaves, Baker, 
Handb. Irid. 76. Morea virgata, Jacq. Ic. t. 228; Collect. iii, 194; 
Ker in Bot. Mag., sub t. 1103 ; Gen. Irid. 33. Ixia virgata, Willd. 
Sp. Plant. i. 202; Vahl. Enum. ii. 59. Homerta spicata, Klatt in 
Linnea, xxxiv. 626, in part. 
Coast Reaton: near Paarl, Drége! Table Mountain, Ecklon, 586! Near 
Cape Town, Bolus, 3801! 
V. GALAXIA, Thunb. 
Perianth with a cylindrical tube, and a campanulate limb with 
subequal obovate segments, Stamens inserted at the throat of the 
perianth-tube; filaments connate in a cylindrical column ; anthers 
