44, 1n1pEx (Baker). [ Bobartia. 
the base of the perianth-segments ; filaments short, free, flattened ; 
anthers lanceolate, sagittate at the base. Ovary turbinate-trigonous, 
8-eelled ; ovules crowded in the cells ; style short, triquetrous, with 
three spreading subulate branches. Capsule firm in texture, opercu- 
late, globose, or turbinate. Seeds small, angular. 
Rhizome short-creeping. Stem produced at the base into a globose corm in 
B. filiformis only. Leaves rigid, terete, or ensiform. Clusters of flowers, one, few, 
or several in a head, usually overtopped by a rigid” bract; flowers more than 
one to a spathe, fugitive, pale yellow, 
Distx1B. An endemic Cape genus. 
Clusters of flowers single: 
Spathe bracteated at the base. =u. vss Sw (1) filiformis. 
Spathe not bracteated at the base one = .. (2) macrospatha. 
Clusters few in a head; 
Stems terete ; 
Spathe under an inch long lec RT: es .. (8) Buarehellii. 
Spathe 14-2 in. long ae sis pee “- »»» (4) aphylla. 
Stems flat nix uae 
Clusters many in o head; 
Stems terete: 
Capsule small, globose... te 
Capsule small, turbinate ... an 
Stem flat ine eee ae sia 
i oe ae ae .. (5) gladiata. 
.. (6) spathacea. 
aie BS ... (7) robusta. 
o- ae ... (8) anceps. 
1. B. filiformis (Ker, Gen. Irid. 30) ; flowering-stem slender, erect, 
terete, 14-2 ft. long, dilated at the base into a small, globose corm, 
and subtended by 3-4 slender, subterete, rigid, closely-ribbed leaves ; 
clusters single, the main bract very small ; spathe cylindrical, 1-1} 
in. long, subtended by 2-3 rigid, adpressed lanceolate bracts ; 
perianth 1-1 in. long, the obovate-unguiculate segments nearly } in. 
broad ; anthers and style-branches } in. long, exceeding the filaments ; 
ovary turbinate-trigonous, } in. long. Klatt in Linnea, xxxiv. 555 ; 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, xvi. 114; Handb. Irid. 119. Morea 
jiliformis, Linn. fil. Suppl. 100; Thunb. Diss. No. 10, tab. 1, fig. 2 ; 
Prodr. 11 ; Fl, Cap. i. 269. Marica filiformis, Ker in Bot. Reg. sub 
t. 229; Hekl. Top. Verz. 15, Stsyrinchium filiforme, Spreng. Syst. 
Veg. i. 166. Hecaste filiformis, Soland. in Herb. Banks. 
Soutm Ararica: without locality, Thunberg ! Masson! Kitching! 
Coast Reeion: Muizenberg, near Kalk Bay, Bolus, 3330! Caledon Div., 
Banks of Zonder Kinde River, near Appelskraal, Zeyher, 4061! 
2. B. macrospatha (Baker, Handb. Irid.119); stem terete, ending in 
a single cluster not subtended by a bract; leaves, none seen; spathe 
13 in. long; one oblong-navicular, obtuse, closely-ribbed, outer valve 
of gon gk, without any small ones adpressed to its base ; perianth 
an inch long; anthers and style-arms 4 in, long, much edi 
the flaments, . Se ee oe 
Coast ReGion; Riversdale Div., about the waterfall 
on the Lange Bergen, Burchell, 6987 ! 
3. B. Burchellii (Baker, Handb, Irid. 120); flowering stem 
slender, terete, 12-15 in. long, associated with 2-3 wiry, terete 
leaves; outer bract subulate, produced little or much beyond the 
at Valley River’s Poort, 
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