* 
60 IRIDEx (Baker). [Hesperantha . 
curved in the lower flowers, segments of the limb oblong-lanceolate, 
4-1 in. long, the inner white, the outer tinged outside with claret- 
red or green; anthers 4 in. long, much exceeding the filaments ; 
style-branches jin. long. Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1475; Gen. Irid. 90, 
ex parte; Klaté in Linnea, xxxiv. 648 ; Ergdnz.59; Baker in Journ. 
Linn Soc. xvi. 95; Handb. Frid. 149. Izia pilosa, Linn. fil. Suppl. 
92; Thunb, Diss. No. 5; Prodr.9; Fl. Cap.i., 222; Vahl Enum. 
ii, 54. 
Sour Arrica : without locality, Zeyher, 1595! Masson ! 
Coast Region: Malmesbury Div., near Groene Kloof, Drége! vicinity of 
Cape Town, Thunberg ! Ecklon, 399! Bolus, 3767! 
%. H lutea (Benth. Gen. Plant. iii. 703) ; corm not seen; leaves 
3-4, linear, erect, acute, firm in texture, glabrous, 2-3 in. long, 
in. broad, the upper sheathing the base of the stem; stems 
slender, terete, 3-4 in. long, simple or forked low down; flowers 
$-6 in a lax simple spike; outer spathe-valve oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, green, with a seariose edge, +4 in. long; perianth with a 
_ eylindrical tube as long as the spathe, and oblong ascending segments 
2 in. long, the three outer claret-purple on the back ; anthers lanceo- 
late, 4 in. long, much exceeding the filaments; style-branches over- 
topping the anthers. Baker, Handb. Irid. 149. Geissorhiza lutea, 
Eckl. Top. Verz. 21; Klatt in Linnea, xxxiv. 652; Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xvi. 95. 
Coast Recion: Swellendam Div.; Groote Vadersbosch, Ecklon; Caledon 
Diy., Zeyher ! 3 
8. H. namaquensis (Baker, Handb. Irid. 149) ; eorm globose, 
small ; leaves 2—3, narrow linear, glabrous, 3-4 in. long ; stem slender, 
8-4 in. long, simple or branched low down; flowers 5-6 in a lax 
-distichous spike with a flexuose rachis; outer spathe-valve green, 
lavceolate, 3-3 in. long ; perianth with a straight cylindrical tube 
2 in. long, segments white, oblong, as long as the tube; stamens 
reaching to the top of the perianth-segments. 
Coast Region: Little Namaqualand, Scully, 50! 
9. H. leucantha (Baker, Handb. Irid. 150) ; corm not seen ; leaves 
3, linear, erect, glabrous, the largest 6-8 in. long ; stem simple, very 
slender, } ft. long; flowers 3-4 in a short distichous spike ; outer 
spathe-valve oblong, green, {4 in. long; perianth-tube straight, as 
long as the spathe, segments oblong, white, 4 in. long ; anthers 4 in. 
long ; style-branches nearly as long as the perianth-segments. 
EastERN Rzcion: Natal; Olivers Hoek Pass, Wood, 3437! 
10. H. cucullata (Klatt, Ergiinz. 59); corm oblong, squamose ; © 
scales castaneous, equally slit at the top; leaves 3, the upper one 
sheathing the stem, lanceolate acute, 2~3 in. long, }—-2 in. broad ; 
stem erect, terete, 3-4 in. long; flowers 8, crowded on a flexuose 
rachis ; outer spathe-valve ovate, herbaceous, truncate at the apex, 
