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Geissorhiza. | IRIDER (Baker), 73 
Var. y, G. obtusata (Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 672); perianth larger, with a limb 
#-1 in. long, the outer segments flushed red outside; habit more robust, and 
leaf broader and more obtuse. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 94. Joia 
obtusata, Soland. MSS. 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality, var. y, Roxburgh / 
Coast Rxraion: Cape Flats, Ecklon, 318! Pappe! Zeyher, 1597! Camps 
Bay, MacOwan, 2273! foot of Table Mountain up to 400 ft., Bolus, 4710! Mac- 
Owan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 258! Worcester Div., Cooper, 3205! Tulbagh, 
Thom! Algoa Bay? Cooper, 3203! Var. 8, near Somerset West, Bolus, 
5567! Hottentots Holland, Ecklon and Zeyher, 211! 
18. G. inflexa. (Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 224); corm 
globose, 4 in. diam., with thick, rigid, much lacerated tunics ; basal 
leaves 2, linear, 4-6 in. long, 4-4 in. broad, thick in texture, 
strongly and closely ribbed ; cauline one, with’a large, free point and 
very loose, strongly ribbed sheath ; stems 4-1 ft. long, terete, simple 
or forked, low down ; flowers several, arranged in a spike with a 
very flexuose axis; outer spathe-valve oblong, }~3 in. long, brown 
and scariose towards the tip; perianth with a cylindrical tube } in, 
long, throat dark purple; limb pale yellow, 3-1 in. long; anthers 
yellow, lanceolate, ¢ in. long, exceeding the purple filaments; style 
reaching to the top of the anthers; branches falcate, } in. long. 
Ker, Gen. Irid. 87, excl. syn.; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, xvi. 94 ; 
Handb. Irid. 157. Ixia inflexa, Delaroche Descr.15. G. vaginata, 
Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 138. 
Sourn AFRica: without locality, Masson ! 
Coast Raion: Tulbagh, 1hom/ near Malmesbury, MacOwan, Herb, Aust. 
Afric. 1568! : 
_ A near ally of G. imbricata, from the concolorous variety of which it differs 
mainly in the purple throat of its perianth, 
19. G. quadrangula (Ker, Gen. Irid. 88) ; corms superposed, the 
outer ‘cite produced into bristles ; leaves few, sheathing, rigid, sub- 
quadrangular, 1-2 lower overtopping the flowers; stem slender, 
simple; flowers few, arranged in a lax spike; spathe-valves per- 
sistent; perianth blue ; tube much shorter than the spathe ; segments 
ovate. Baker, Handb. Irid. 157, Ixia quadrangula, Delaroche 
Deser. 16 ; Vahl., Enum. ii. 52. 
Soutn A¥Fagica: without locality. 
A doubtfal plant, known only from the original description of Delaroche. 
20. G. nana (Klatt, Erginz. 57); corm very small, globose ; 
leaves 3-4 at the base of the stem, linear, glabrous, moderately firm 
in texture, 3-1 in. long, 3 lin. broad; stems 1-2 in. long, very 
slender, 1-flowered, simple or forked from the base ; outer spathe- 
valve oblong, green, obtuse, } in. long ; perianth-tube blue, reaching 
to the tip of the spathe ; limb funnel-shaped, 3 in. long, with oblong 
segments, the outer bright blue, the inner white; anthers reaching 
halfway up the limb; style-branches overtopping the anthers. 
Baker, Handb. Irid. 157. 
Coast Reaion: Culedon Div.; banks of the Zonder Einde River, near Appels 
Kraal, Zeyher, 3967 ! 
