Romulea.} — 1rtpEz (Baker). 37 
Rubro-lilacine, Flowers bright rose-lilac. 
Peduncle short, sometimes only 1-flowered. 
Leuves very slender : 
Perianth-tube very short : 
Perianth bright orange in the lower half (13) hirsuta. 
Perianth yellow at the very base -+ (14) longifolia. 
Perianth-tube halfas long asthe segments .,. (15) gracillima, 
Leaves stouter and more rigid : 
All the perianth-segments rose-lilac ... ... (16) rosea. 
Inner segments white; outer red, with a 
pale blotch in centre (17) elegans, 
Perianth yellow outside, with purple plumose 
stripes, fulvous and yellow inside .., »-» (18) cuprea. 
Peduncle elongated, 2-4 flowered : 
Perianth-tube half as long as segments .., (19) arenaria. 
Subgenus SPaATHALANTHUS. Filaments connate in a 
tubetothetop _... ese soe wae =~ eee, (20) -monadelpha, 
1, BR. sublutea (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 88) ; corm globose, 
4—} in. diam., with rigid, brown tunics cut round at the base; basal 
leaves 1-2, setaceous, 3-6 in. long, } lin. broad, l-ribbed, with con- 
volute edges ; stem simple, 2-3 in. long, or forked low down, with 
2-5 branches, with a small green lanceolate leaf from the base of 
each; spathe of two green lanceolate valves about 3 in. long; 
perianth a uniform bright yellow, with a short, funnel-shaped tube, 
and a limb $-1 in. long, with oblong segments ; anthers bright yellow, 
4 in. long, about equalling the filaments; styles reaching to the top 
of the anthers. Klatt, Ergdnz. 65; Baker, Handb. Irid.100, Inia 
crocea, Thunb., Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 55. ' I. sublutea, Lam. Enc. 
ili. 335. Geissorhiza sublutea, Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 224. 
I. filifolia, Red. Lil. tab. 251, fig. 2. Trichonema filifolium, Ker, 
Gen, Irid. 82. R. aurea, Klatt, Ergénz. 65. 
Souta Arxrica: without locality, Thunberg! Grey! 
Pe Rxcion: Simons Bay, Wright, 279! Zwartberg, near Caledon, Zeyher, 
CenrTeat Region: Hantam Mountains, near Calvinia, Meyer. 
2. BR. tortuosa (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 88) ; corm ovoid, 
with brown, rigid tunics; basal leaves 3-4, setaceous, tortuose, 
spreading, 14-2 in. long, firm in texture, 3-nerved, 3 lin. diam. ; 
flowers 2-3, subsessile in the centre of the rosette of leaves ; spathe 
of two green lanceolate valves 4 in. long; perianth bright yellow, 
with a short tube, and a limb 3 in. long, with oblong, lanceolate 
segments } in. broad; stamens reaching more than halfway up the 
limb, the filaments as long as the lanceolate-sagittate anthers. Baker, 
Handb. Irid. 100. Izia tortuosa, Licht. in Roem, et Schult. Syst. 
Veg. i. 375. Trichonema tortuosum, Ker, Gen. Irid. 83; Klatt in 
Linnea, xxxiv. 666. 
Centrat Recion: Fraserburg Div., Middle Roggeveld, between Jakhals 
Fontein and Kuilenberg, near Sutherland, Burchell, 1343! Lichtenstein. 
3. RB. bulbocodioides (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, xvi. 88, non 
Eckl.) ; corm globose, 4-} in. diam., with pale brown, smooth, rigid 
