Ieia.] JRIDEZ (Baker), 81 
Coast Recion: near Tulbagh, Ecklon, 4832! MacOwan, 2480! MacOwan 
and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 265! Worcester Div., Cooper, 1671! 1694! 
French Hoek Kloof, Drage ! 
_ 11. I. maculata (Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 1664) ; corm globose, 3-1 
in, diam. ; tunics of strong parallel fibres; produced basal leaves about 
4, linear, glabrous, strongly ribbed, 4-1 ft. long, $+ in. broad, 
acuminate ; stems slender, terete, 1-2 ft. long, simple or branched; 
flowers many, arranged in dense, erect spikes; outer spathe-valve 
oblong, tricuspidate, membranous, }-4 in, long ; perianth-tube slender, 
usually twice as long as the spathe ; limb campanulate, yellow, $-1 
in. long, with a dark purple or black blotch at the throat and oblong, 
obtuse segments; anthers yellow, lanceolate, }-} in. long, much 
exceeding the free filaments; style-branches 4 in. long, shorter than 
the anthers. Ait. Hort. Kew. i.60; Thunb. Diss. No. 19, ex parte ; 
Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. t. 21; Baker, Handb. Irid. 163. I. conica, 
Salish. Prodr. 36; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 539; Red. Lil. t. 188; 
Ker, Gen, Irid. 99 ; Klatt in Linnea xxxiv. 644. I. Milleri, Bery. 
Pl. Cap. 8 (Miller Ic. 104, tab. 156, fig. 1). I. eapitata, Andr. Bot. 
Rep. t. 50. J. abbreviata, Houtt. Handl. xii. 41, t. 78, fig. 3. 
I. dubia, Vent. Choix,t,10.. I, fusco-citrina, Red. Lil. t. 86; Klatt, 
Ergins. 63. I. crocea, Eckl. Top. Verz. 25. I. alboflavens, Eckl. 
Top. Verz. 27. 
Var. 8, ochroleuca (Ker in Bot, Mag. t. 1285); flowers sulphur-yellow with a 
lenge Sag fe blotch at the throat. I. ochroleuca, G. Don in Sweet Hort. Brit. 
it. 2, 502. 
Var. y, I. nigro-albida (Klatt, Ergiinz. 62) ; flowers pure white, with a large 
black blotch at the throat. I. capitata, var., Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 159. 
Vaz. 3, ornata (Baker) ; flowers flushed with bright red or purple outside. 
Coast Reeton: Clanwilliam Div., Mader in Herb. MacOQwan, 2235! Mulmes. 
bury Div.; near Berg River, Thunberg/ near Paardeberg, Ecklon, 445! Groene 
Kloof, MacOwan, 2914! and MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. 941! Tul- 
bagh, Pappes Worcester Div., Cooper, 3610! vicivity of Cape Town, Ecklon, 
433! Zeyher, 1600! MacOwan, 2277! Bolus, 3320! Camps Bay, MacOwan 
and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 263! Rondebosch, Drége / 
12. I. columellaris (Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 630); habit and leaves 
of I. maculata, from which it only differs by its deeply-coloured 
flowers, which in the type are bright mauve-purple, with a blue 
throat, Ker. Gen. Irid. 102; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit, 2,i. 88; Baker, 
Handb. Irid. 163. Morphizia columellaris, Klatt, Erganz. 50. Ixia 
maculata, Thunb. Diss. No. 19, ex parte; Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. 
tt. 19, 20, 22. M. angustifolia, Klatt, loc. cit. 
SourH Arrica: without ity, Thunberg ! Villet ! Rowburgh ! 
Under this and A degen pocepoatedie a a of named garden varieties, of 
which about thirty are > ay by Jacquin. Watsonia (Betlia) campanulata, 
Klatt, Erganz. 20, founded on Andr. Bot. Rep. t, 196, and W. racemosa, Klatt, 
Erganz. 20 on Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 256, drawn with style-branches slightly emar- 
ginate at the tip, should both, I suspect, be referred here, 
18. I. ovata (Klatt, Erginz. 62) ; habit entirely of I. maculata, 
from which it differs by its bright red flowers, with a purple-black 
