Hesperantha.] IRIDEX (Baker). 59 
cusps at the top; basal leaves 2—4, lanceolate, falcate, glabrous, 
moderately firm in texture, not crisped, 2-3 in. long, }-4 in. broad ; 
stems slender, terete, 3-1 ft. long, simple or forked, with 1-2 sheath- 
ing, erect, linear or lanceolate leaves below the middle; flowers 2-10 
in a lax equilateral erect spike ; outer spathe-valve oblong, obtuse, 
z-t in. long, green, with a brown scariose edge ; perianth with a 
cylindrical tube as long as or a little longer than the spathe, seg- 
ments oblong, spreading, +—} in. long, the three inner white, the outer 
claret-red ; anthers lanceolate, } in, long, three times as long as the 
filaments ; style-branches } in. long. Ker in Bot. Mag. sub t. 1254; 
Gen, Irid. 90 ; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit..2,i. 84. Klatt in Linnea, xxxiv. 
647 ; Ergdnz. 59; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 96 ; Hundb. 
Trid. 148. Ixia falcata, Linn, fil. Suppl. 92; Thunb. Diss. No. 23 ; 
Prodr.10; Fl. Cap. i, 249; Jacg. Ic. t. 276; Bot. Mag. t. 566. 
Ixia cinnamomea, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 44, non Thunb. 
Coast Reeion: vicinity of Cape Town, Thunberg! Drége! near Simons 
Town, Bolus, 4690! Paarl Div., Drege! Dutoits Kloof, Drége! Riversdale 
Div. ; on the Langebergen, Burchell, 7045! 
4. H. flexuosa (Klatt, Ergiinz. 60); corm globose, squamose ; scales 
castaneous, cuspidate at the apex; leaves narrow linear, superposed, 
3 lin. broad ; stem flexuose, glabrous, forked, 9-10 in. long; flowers 
in a short flexuose spike; outer spathe-valve oblong, } in. long, 
green, with a brown scariose margin; perianth-tube cylindrical, 
reddish, 4 in. long, segments ovate, acute, the outer reddish, the 
° 3 
inner white. 
_ WESTERN Reeron: Little Namaqualand; near Elbvagfontein, Drége, 2639; 
Nababeep, 3200 ft., MacOwan and Bolus Herb, Norm. Austr. Afr. 694! 
5. H. graminifolia (D. Don in Sweet Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 
503) ; corm small, globose, with crustaceous brown tunics ; leaves 
8-5, linear, glabrous, 4—6 in. long, ;); in. broad, the upper sheathing 
the lower part of the stem; stems terete, slender, simple or rarely 
forked, 3-1 ft. long; flowers 2-6 in a lax equilateral spike ; outer 
Spathe-valve green, oblong, } in. long; perianth with a straight 
cylindrical tube a little larger than the spathe, segments oblong- 
lanceolate, spreading, }-? in. long, the inner white, the outer 
reddish-brown or reddish green outside; anthers and style-branches 
asin H. pilosa. Klatt in Linnea, xxxiv. 649; Ergdnz. 59; Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi.95 ; Handb. Irid. 148. H. pilosa, var. nuda, 
Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1254; Gen. Irid. 90. 
Coast Reeron ; at the foot of Table Mountain, MacOwan, 2386 ! 
6. H. pilosa (Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 225) ; corm globose, 
in. diam.; tunics brown, erustaceous, with short cusps at the top; 
basal leaves 2, linear, ereet, pilose, strongly ribbed, 3-6 in. long, #, in. 
broad; stems slender, erect, terete, 3-1 ft. long, with a single sheath- 
ing erect leaf lower down ; flowers 2-10 in a lax equilateral, distichous 
spike ; outer spathe-valve lanceolate, acute, green, herbaceous, 3 in. 
long; perianth with a cylindrical tube 4—} in. long, straight or rarely 
