76 tRipEx (Baker), [ Getssorhiza. 
white segments ;.anthers lanceolate j, in. long, exceeding the fila- 
ments. Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 95; Handb. Frid. 159. 
Westeerx Reaion : Little Namaqualand, mountains near Modderfontein 4000- 
5000 ft., Drége, 2632! 
28. G. geminata (E. Meyer in herb. Drége) ; corm not seen ; leaves 
3-4, all distantly superposed and sheathing the stem, setaceous, 
glabrous, firm in texture, 3-6 in. long ; stems slender, terete, 6-10 in. 
long, simple or deeply forked, the branches 1-2-flowered ; spathe- 
valves green to the tip, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 4 in. long; perianth- 
tube blue, funnel-shaped, 4-4 in. long; limb white, 4 in. long, with 
oblong segments; anthers 4 in. long, lanceolate, exceeding the fila- 
ments; style-branches not overtopping the anthers. Baker in Journ. 
Linn, Soc. xvi. 95 ; Handb, Irid. 159 ; Klatt, Ergdanz. 58. 
Coast RrGion: between Slangenheuvel, Frenchhoek and Donkerhoek, 
Drége! 
29. G. excisa (Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 223); corm glo- 
bose, $ in. diam.; tunies brown, crustaceous, tipped with short cusps ; 
basal leaves 2-3, oblong or lanceolate, erect, glabrous, firm in texture, 
obtuse or acute, 4-1 in. long, not ribbed, furnished with copious 
minute black dots on both sides; stems flexuose, slender, glabrous, 
2-6 in. long, rarely forked ; flowers 2-5, distant, erect ; outer spathe- 
valve oblong, green, obtuse, herbaceous, j-1 in. long; perianth-tube 
cylindrical, erect, 3-{ in. long; segments oblong, spreading, 4-4 in. 
long, the three inner white, the three outer claret-purple outside ; 
anthers lanceolate-sagittate, $ in. long, exceeding the filaments; style 
overtopping the anthers, with short, spreading, falcate branches. Ker 
in Bot. Mag. sub t. 1105; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, i. 84; Klatt in 
Linnea xxxiv. 651; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 95; Handb. 
Lrid. 159. Ixia excisa, Linn. fil. Suppl. 92; Thunb. Diss. No. 24, tab. 
1, fig. 4; Prodr.10; Fl. Cap. i, 250; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 584. 
Wethea excisa, Eckl. Top. Verz. 22. Ixia o Burm. Prodr, Cap. 
1; Houtt. Handi, xii. 39. ee 
Coast ReGion: Between Paarl and Pont, Drége! Table M. i to 
2000 it., Thunberg! Ecklon, 831! Bolus, 4704! Pong ena, 
and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 259! Lion Mountain, Zeyher! Simons Bay, Wright! 
pine ae Sanderson! Caledon Div.; Klein River Berg, Zeyher, 3959a! 
XVI. IXIA, Linn, 
Perianth subrotate, with a straight, usually sh lindrical tube 
sometimes dilated into a funnel at the top pow ae pr Sedo paseo: 
oblong segments. Stamens equally divaricating, inserted at the 
psa of ee deireaggese: rarer short, filiform, rarely connate ; 
anthers ceo sagittate at the base, : ; 
ovules crowded, superposed ; ee ee 
style filif 
perianth-tube with three short, an edie. orm, exserted from the 
falcate branches. Capsule 
small, oblong, membranous, loculicidally 3- 
or ainiod - ee 5 ally 3-valved, Seeds globose 
