Galazia.] 1R1DE# (Baker), . 83 
lanceolate, sagittate at the base. Ovary cylindrical, 3-celled ; ovules 
crowded in the cells; style filiform, with a petaloid, peltate, 3-lobed 
stigma papillose on the margin. Capsule cylindrical, membranous. 
Seeds minute, subglobose. 
Rootstock a small corm, tunicated with parallel lamella; leaves several, 
multifarious, linear or broad; spathes 1-flowered, eylindrical, membranous, 
mag in the centre of the rosette of leaves; flowers small, fugacious, yellow or 
Disters. An endemic Cape genus. 
Outer leaves broad... isa sas ais ssa sui 1) ovata. 
All the leaves linear ius aes aa ies rT f graminea, 
1. G. ovata (Thunb. Diss. Nov. Gen. ii, 51, eum icone) ; corm 
globose, § in. diam., thickly tunicated, furnished with a neck some- 
times 1-2 in. long below the rosette of leaves; leaves several, in a 
dense rosette, firm in texture, with several distinct ribs, and a 
thickened, pale, cartilaginous border, outer ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 
3-1¢ in. long, inner narrower; spathe cylindrical, 4-1 in. long; 
perianth-tube filiform, exserted from the spathe ; perianth-limb bright 
yellow, about an inch in diameter, with imbricated obovate segments ; 
stigma exserted about } in. from the perianth-tube, overtopping the 
anthers. Cav. Diss. vi. 341, tab. 189, fig. 2; Jacq. Ie. tab. 291, 
upper figure; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 94; Baker, Handb, Irid. 97. 
G. obtusa, Salish. in Trans. Hort. Soc.i. 315. Inia Galazia, Linn. 
Jil. Suppl. 93, Ovieda fasciculata, a and b, Herb. Drege. 
Vaz. 6, G, grandiflora (Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. i, 314) ; flower larger, 
yellow, 14 in. diam. when expanded, with imbricated obovate segments. Andr. 
Bot. Rep. t. 164. G. ovata, a, Ker in Bot. Mag. t, 1208. 
Vag. y, G. mucronularis (Salisb. loc. cit. 315) ; flower lilac, with a yellow 
throat, segments narrower than in the type, obtuse, with a minute cusp. 
G. ovata, Jacq. Ic. t. 291, lower left hand eee 
Vag. 8, G. versicolor (Salisb. loc. cit. 315) ; flower smaller than in the type, 
dark lilac, with a yellow throat; segments obtuse, without a cusp. G, ovata, 
Jacq. Ic. t. 291, lower right hand figure. 
Var. ¢, Eckloni (Baker, Handb. Irid. 97) ; flowers lilac, about an inch in diam., 
with imbricated broad segments; leaves more humerous than in the type, the 
inner linear. G. violacea, Eckl. Top. Vers. 17. 
Coast Reeion: Clanwilliam Div., Drége, 2614a! Cape Div., near Tyger Berg, 
Burchell, 971! Lion Mountain, MacOwan, 2552! and Herb. Norm. Au-t. 
Af?., 253! Near Cape Town, Thunberg/ Var. ¢, Devils Mountain, Ecklon, 308! 
2. G. graminea (Thunb. Diss. Nov. Gen. ii. 51, cum icone) ; 
corm ovoid, $4 in. diam., with thick, much-raised ribs, and often 
furnished with a cylindrical neck, 1-2 in. long, below the rosette of 
leaves; leaves numerous, in a rosette, all linear, convolute, 1-2 in. 
long, dilated and membranous at the base, and often furnished with 
bulbill# in their axils; spathe about } in. long; perianth with a 
filiform tube 1-2 in. long, and a lilac or yellow limb 1-1} in. diam. 
when expanded, with obovate obtuse segments; style reaching half- 
way up the limb, overtopping the anthers. Thunb. Prodr 10; Cav. 
Diss. vi. 341, t. 189, fig. 3; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1292; Jacg, Coll. ii. 
866, t. 18, fig. 2; Ker, Gen. Irid.71; Baker, Handb. Irid. 97. Ixia 
FSugacissima, Linn. fil. Suppl. 94. 
