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Hesperantha. ] IRIDEX (Baker). : 65 
Cenrrat Recion: Victoria West; Karee Bergen, Burchell, 1548! near 
Murraysburg, 4100 ft., Tyson, 305! Somerset Div., Bowker ! 
Western Rugion: Little Namaqualand, between Pedros Kloof and Lily 
Fontein, 3000-4000 ft., Drége, 2638! 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Mooi River, 4000 ft., Wood, 4€56 ! 
24, H. angusta (Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 225); corm 
ovoid, 7-3 in. diam; tunics brown, crustaceous, ending at the top in 
short cusps; leaves 3-4, linear, glabrous, grass-like, lower 4-6 in. 
long, 4-3 in. broad, upper sheathing the stem half-way up; stems 
slender, terete, simple or forked, $-1 ft. long ; flowers few, arranged 
in a lax spike; outer spathe-valve greon, oblong, }—3 in. long; 
perianth-tube curved, cylindrical, } in. long; limb } in. long, 
with six oblong white segments, reflexed when fully expanded ; 
anthers lanceolate, } in. long, three times as long as the filaments ; 
style-branches subulate, } in. long. Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xvi. 
(96; Handb. Irid. 152; Klatt, Erganz.61. H. radiata, var. angusta, 
Ker, Gen. Irid. 89, Ixia radiata, var. angusta, Ker in Bot, Mag. sub 
t. 573. I. angusta, Willd. Sp. Plant. i. 202. J. linearis, Jacq. Ic. 
t. 279; Coll. iv. 183, non Thunb. H. virginea, Ker in Konig and 
Sims’ Ann, i. 225; Gen. Irid. 91. J. virginea, Soland. MSS. Diasia 
tridifolia and D. reflexa, Harvey MSS. 
Coast Reaion: Clanwilliam Div., Zeyher! Hex River Kloof, Drége! 
CENTRAL REGION: near Somerset East, MacOwan, 345! 345b ! 
WESTERN Region: Little Namaqualand, near Ookiep, Morris in Hb. Bolus, 
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25. H. Tysoni (Baker, Handb. Irid. 151); corm not seen ; leaves 
2-4, narrowly linear, erect, glabrous, } ft. long ; stem slender, 1} ft. 
long ; flowers 5-6 in a lax secund spike ; spathe-valves oblong-lanceo- 
late, 4 in. Jong; perianth-tube eylindrical, curved, as long as the 
spathe; segments oblong, whitish, } in. long; stamens reaching 
nearly to the tip of the segments. 
Eastern Reaion: Griqualand East; banks of streams near Kokstad, 4700 ft.. 
Tyson, 1585 { 
26. H. bulbifera (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1876, 183); corm not 
seen ; leaves about 4, -like, linear, glabrous, above a foot long, 
flaccid, }—2 in. broad, furnished with bulbille in their axils ; stems 
weak, simple, 1} ft. Jong; flowers few, arranged in a lax simple 
spike ; outer spathe-valve green, oblong-lanceolate, ?-1 in. long ; 
perianth-tube curved, } in. long; limb white, an inch long, with 
uniform oblong segments; anthers nearly 3 in. long, twice the length 
of the filaments; style-branches 3 in. long. Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xvi. 96; Handb, Irid. 152; Klatt, Erganz. 61. 
CentREat Reaion: Somerset Div.; Boschberg, in fissures of the cliff at the 
cataract, MacOwan, 2215! 
Perhaps only a form of H. angusta, grown in damp shade, 
XV. GEISSORHIZA, Ker. 
Perianth rotate. with a cylindrical tube and six spreading, subequal, 
oblong segments, Stamens divaricating, inserted at the throat of the 
