Witsenia.] IRIDEZ (Baker). 47 
closely imbricated, rigid, acute bracts; the outer smaller and sterile; 
the inner 1-1 in. long, containing a shorter obtuse brown spathe in 
their axil, subtending a single flower; perianth-tube 2 in. long, 
brownish downwards, blue-black upwards, glabrous, } in. diam. at 
the throat, segments } in. long, the outer clothed on the back with 
yellow-brown tomentum, the inner pilose at the tip only; stamens 
shorter than the perianth-segments; style not exserted ; capsule 
glossy, castaneous, }-} in. long. Thunb. Prodr.7; Vahl. Enum. ii. 
47; Red. Lil. t. 245 and 463 ; Lam. Mil. i. 108, t. 30; Ker in Konig 
and Sims’ Ann. i. 237; Gen. Irid. 8; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, 
i. 109; Bot. Reg. t. 5; Maund. Bot. t. 125; Flore des Serres, t. 72. 
Baker, Handb. Irid, 146 ; Paxt. Mag. viii. 221, cum icone; Reich. 
Exot, t. 23. W. tomentosa, Salish. in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 312. 
Antholyza maura, Linn, Mant. edit. 2, 175, Ixia disticha, Lam. 
Encycl. iii. 333. 
Coast Reeion: Cape Peninsula; Cape Point and Smitswinkel Bay, Mac- 
Owan, 2620! Noordhoek, Thunberg! Hottentots Holland Mountains, Zeyher, 
3954! Swellendam Div., Tradouw Mountains, Bowie / 
X. CLEANTHE, Salisb. 
Perianth cut down very nearly to the ovary into six spreading, 
obovate-obtuse segments, the three inner larger than the three outer. 
Stamens inserted at the base of the perianth-segments; filaments 
short, free; anthers lanceolate. Ovary cylindrical-trigonous, 3- 
celled ; ovules crowded in the cells; style cylindrical, with small, 
spreading, cuneate stigmas. Capsule cylindrical-trigonous, Seeds 
small, turgid. 
Distzis. Endemic and monotypic. 
1. C. bicolor (Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. i. 312); rhizome 
short-creeping, cylindrical, sending out dense tufts of wiry root- 
fibres; leaves in a dense, basal, distichous rosette, surrounded by 
bristles, linear, rigid in texture, glabrous, closely-ribbed, 3-6 in. 
long; stems 3-1 ft. long, bearing only 1-2 rudimentary leaves; 
clusters terminal, single or few, arranged in a lax corymb, 2-3- 
flowered ; outer spathe-valves lanceolate, acute, green, with a hyaline 
edge; pedicels }-1 in. long; perianth fugitive, twisting up spirally, 
blue, inner segments entirely blue, 1-1} in. long, outer black, 
with a pale claw, not more than half as long as the inner; style 
2 in. long, overtopping the stamens ; capsule 13-2in.long. Oleanthe 
melaleuca, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xvi. 112; Baker, Handb, 
Irid. 137. Morea melaleuca, Thunb. Diss. No. 1, tab. 1, fig. 3 ; 
Prodr. 10; Fl. Cap. i. 261. Aristea melaleuca, Ker in Konig and 
Sims’ Ann. i. 236; Bot, Mag. t. 1277; Klatt in Linnea, xxxiv. 
553. Morea lugens, Linn. fil. Suppl. 99 ; Ait. Hort. Kew, i. 75, 
Coast Recion: at the foot of Paarl Mountains, and on, and around Paarde 
Berg, Thunberg ! 
. The plant distributed as Sisyrinchium melaleuewm by Ecklon and Zeyher is not 
this, but a form of Aristea spiralis. 
