84 iziDEzZ (Baker). — [Galawia. 
Coast Region: vicinity of Cape Town, Thunberg! Burchell, 8396 ! 
Ecklon, 306! Bolus, 4806! MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afric. 1539! Caledon 
Div.; Klein River Berg, Zeyher, 4065 ! 
VL. SYRINGODEA, Hook. fil. 
Perianth hypoerateriform or infundibuliform, with a long 
cylindrical tube and subequal, entire or emarginate segments. 
Stamens inserted.at the throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments short, 
free; anthers large, linear, sagittate at the base. Ovary oblong- 
eylindrical ; cells 3, many-ovuled ; style long, filiform ; style-branches 
slender, clavate. Capsule membranous, oblong-cylindrical. Seeds 
minute, turgid. 
Rootstock a corm with many membranous tunics. Leaves usually narrow, 
multifarious. Spathes cylindrical, membranous, 1-flowered, subsessile in the 
centre of the rosette of leaves. Flowers small, usually purple. 
Distris. An endemic Cape genus, representing Crocus of the northern 
hemisphere. 
Subgenus Syzincopea PROPER. Perianth hypocrateriform, with spreading 
emarginate segments, 
The only species ... Sig = a +s .» (1) pulchella. 
Subgenus Crocopsis. Perianth infundibuliform, with ascending entire 
segments, 
Leaves terete : 
Leaves several : 
Spathe ; in. long soo one wee swe (2) Montana, 
ate ins ate eee oo eee (3) Fused. 
pai in,long ats as we (4) Fi 
Spathe 13-2 in. lon ae co = ... (5) bicolor. 
Leaves single ore tor oo eee eee eee -(6) rosea. 
Leaves linear asa eco: 5 ek aie os .. (7) minuta. 
Leaves lanceolate ... 
oon ooo wer eee eee (8) latifolia. 
1. 8. pulchella (Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 6072); corm globose, 
3 in. diam., with thick, dull brown, outer tunics, 1—2-flowered ; leaves 
4-6, falcate, setaceous, glabrous, firm in texture, much overtopping 
the flowers, 3-4 in. long, 4 lin. diam.; spathe membranous, 
cylindrical, an inch long; perianth with a cylindrical tube 14-2 in. 
long, much exserted from the spathe, and a rotate purple limb 4~} in. 
long, with all the segments cuneate-unguiculate, and distinctly 
emarginate; anthers linear, 4 in. long, much exceeding their 
filaments ; style-branches cuneate at the tip, just overtopping the 
stamens. Baker in Journ. Bot. 1876, 67; Handb. Trid. 95. 
CzntTRrat Reaion : Graaff Reinet Div., Sneeuw Berg, 4500 ft., Bolus, 1852! 
2. 8. montana (Klatt, Erganz, 69); corm oblong, } in. diam., 
1-3-flowered tunics shining, castaneous ; leaves setaceous, curved or 
spiral, hairy, 3 in. long, } lin. diam, ; valves of spathe equal, white, 
ape ip F in. re gs — with a cylindrical tube # in. long, 
a yellow throat, and obovate violet segments + in, | in, b: 
Baker, Handb. Irid. 95. ee 
Central Reaion : Hantam Mountains, near Calvinia, Meyer. 
