Aristea. | IRIDEZ (Baker). 55 
Swellendam Div., Tradouw Mountains, Bowie! Riversdale Div. 3 Dear the 
summit of Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 7100! 
21. A. corymbosa (Benth. Gen. Plant. iii. 701); stems shrubby, 
erect, much-branched, ancipitous, branches rough with scars of fallen 
leaves; leaves spaced out along the stems, rigid, linear, distichous, 
amplexicaul, ereeto-patent, 4-6 in. long, 4 in. broad, clusters very 
numerous, arranged in a dense corymb, with a long ancipitous erect 
peduncle; spathes + in. long; outer bracts rigid, obtuse; inner 
membranous ; perianth with a cylindrical tube exserted from the 
spathe, and bright blue limb } in. long, with oblong segments; capsule 
rigid, oblong, 4 in. long. Baker, Handb. Irid. 145. Witsenia 
corymbosa, Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 895; Gen. Irid. 8 ; Smith, Ezot. 
Bot. ii. 17, t. 68; Red. Lil. t. 453 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 254; Reich. 
Exot. t. 24; Paxt. Mag. iii. 269, cum icone. Nivenia corymbosa, 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 109. N. stylosa, Salish. in Trans. 
Hort. Soc. i. 311. N. binata, Klatt, Erganz. 48. 
Sour ArFRica: without locality, Cooper, 3175! 
Coast ReGion: near Tulbagh, Drége, 1986! near Bains Kloof, Bolus, 4068! 
Caledon Div.; Appels Kraal, Zeyher! Oudtshoorn Div.; on the Great Zwarte 
Bergen, Drége, 2184! 
Undescribed Species. 
Wredowia pulchra, Eckl. Top. Verz. 16, from hills between Hemel and 
Aarde, in the division of Caledon, is said to have bright cinnabar-red flowers, 
and to be intermediate between Sisyrinchiwm (i.e. A. spiralis) and the typical 
Aristeas, : 
XII, KLATTIA, Baker. 
Perianth blue, not twisted up spirally, with a short cylindrical 
tube and six very long subequal segments, with a small lanceolate 
blade and a long filiform claw. Stamens inserted at the throat of 
the perianth-tube ; filaments long, free, filiform; anthers linear, 
sagittate at the base. Ovary turbinate, 3-celled; ovules few in a 
cell; style filiform, minutely tricuspidate at the stigmatose apex. 
Capsule turbinate, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds one or few in a 
cell, angular or compressed, - 
DistRis. An endemic monotypic genus, 
1. K. partita (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 110); stems woody, 
much-branched, erect, 1-2 ft. long; branches ancipitous, leafy up to 
the top; leaves crowded, alternate, ensiform, amplexicaul, ascending, 
6-9 in. long, firm in texture, acuminate, closely ribbed ; flowers 
bright blue, 10-15 aggregated in a dense oblong terminal head, 
subtended by large lanceolate, rigid bracts ; spathes 1-2-flowered, with 
lanceolate brown valves $-1 in. long. Perianth-tube cylindrical, 
1_1 in, long; segments 2-22 in. long, with a lanceolate blade } in. 
long; stamens and style falling a little short of the perianth- 
segments ; capsule 4 in. long. Baker, Handb. Irid. 146. Witsenia 
