86 inipez (Baker). [ Twia. 
reaching to the top of the anthers. Morphixia nervosa, Baker in 
Journ. Bot. 1876, 237; Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 98. 
Coast Reeron: Clanwilliam Div., Mader in Herb. Bolus, 2175! Piquetberg 
Div.; Cardouw, Zeyher, 1632! 
XVII. STREPTANTHERA, Sweet. 
Perianth rotate, with a short funnel-shaped tube, and spreading, 
equal, obovate, obtuse segments. Stamens inserted at the throat of 
the perianth-tube ; filaments short, flattened, valvate; anthers linear, 
erect. Ovary 3-celled; ovules crowded in the eells; style filiform, 
reaching to the top of the filaments, with 3 short, spreading, clavate, 
entire branches. Capsule small, subglobose, membranous, Seeds 
small, subglobose. 
Rootstock a corm with fibrous tunics; leaves short, arranged in a fan-shaped 
rosette ; flowers 2-3 to a spike; spathe-valves large, membranous, much dotted 
and sheathed with brown. 
Distris: An endemic Cape genus, differing from Sparawis by its short 
perianth-tube and divaricating stamens, 
Flowers white in the outer half Re Oe lar & elegans. 
- Flowers coppery-yellow in the outer half 2) cuprea. 
1. 8. elegans (Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 209); corm ovoid, the 
size of a blackbird’s egg, with brown fibrous coats and a long neck ; 
leaves 6-8 in a fan-shaped basal rosette, lanceolate, glabrous, 
moderately firm in texture, 3-4 in. long, $4 in. broad; stems 
forked at the base, a little longer than the leaves, 1—2-flowered ; 
spathe 3 in. long, toothed at the top, wrapped round the tube and 
ovary ; perianth-tube } inch long; limb 3~1 in., white with a yellow 
eye bordered with dark purple at the top, the segments much 
imbricated, obovate, very obtuse ; stamens half as long as the perianth- 
segments. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1359; Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. 
xvi, 92; Handb. Irid. 160; Klatt, Erganz. 56. 
Coast Region: Talbagh, Thom! 
2. 8. cuprea (Sweet, Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 501); habit, corms and 
leaves as in S. eleyans; peduncle shorter than the leaves, 2—4- 
flowered ; spathe 4-$ in. long; perianth 1 in. long, copper-yellow, 
with a purple throat bordered with black and a yellow spot in the 
centre; stamens less than half as long as the limb, the anthers 
equalling the connivent filaments. Sweet, Brit, Flow. Gard. ser. ii. 
#122; Pazt. Mag. i. 8, cum icone ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 
93; Handb. Irid. 160 ; Klatt, Erginz. 56. Sparaxis cuprea, Klatt 
in Linnea xxxv. 378. 
SourH Arica: without locality. 
a only from the plant figured, which flowered in Mr. Colville’s nursery 
XVIII. DIERAMA, K. Koch. 
Perianth infundibuliform, with a short cylindrical tube dilated at 
the throat and oblong, obtuse, ascending, subequal segments. 
