90 1u1DEX (Baker). [ Lapeyrousia. 
limb spreading, violet or whitish, }-} in. long, with lanceolate acute 
segments; stamens half as long as the perianth-segments. 
South Arrica: without locality, Hutton! Bowker ! 
Katanarr Ruaion: Transvaal, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 5790! Orange Free 
State; Diamond Fields at Klip Drift, Mrs. Barber, 31! 
Flowers fragrant, 
4, L. fistulosa (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, xvi. 155); corm 
globose, 3 in. diam., with thick tunics of brown reticulated fibres ; 
basal leaves 2, thin, oblong, obtuse, spreading, 1-2 in. long, 3-3 in. 
broad ; stem slender, terete, fragile, leafless, 4-12 in. long; flowers 
solitary, terminal, or few, arranged in a very lax raceme; spathe- 
valves oblong, green, } in. long; perianth lilac; tube slender, 1 in. 
long; segments spreading, oblanceolate, j-} in. long; stamens 
shorter than the perianth-segments; anthers lanceolate, deeply 
sagittate at the base. Handb. Irid. 169. Ovieda fistulosa, Spreng. 
MSS. ; Klatt in Linnea xxxii. 781. 
CrnTrat Region: Clanwilliam Div., Zeyher! Tulbagh Div.; on the Wind 
Heuvel, Koedoes Mts., Burchell, 1282! 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand ; near Concordia, Bolus, 695 ! Spurs 
of the Kamies Bergen, 3000-4100 ft., Drége ! 
5. L. corymbosa (Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 238); corm 
ovoid, 3% in. diam., with thick cancellate tunics of firm texture, 
lacerated at the base, ending at the top in a ring of bristles ; pro- 
duced basal leaf 1, spreading, falcate, ensiform, 4—6 in. long, j—-} in. 
broad, moderately firm in texture, with 5—7 strong ribs ; stem short, 
aucipitous ; inflorescence a dense corymbose panicle, with a few flowers 
at the tip of the numerous branchlets and a short ancipitous 
peduncle with 1-2 much-reduced leaves; spathe-valves oblong, 
obtuse, 4-} in. long, green with a brown tip ; perianth bright or pale 
violet ; tube funnel-shaped, }-2 in. long; segments oblong, of about 
the same length; stamens sometimes reaching to the tip of the 
perianth-segments ; anthers lanceolate-sagittate, 4 in. long. Ker in 
Bot. Mag. t. 595; Gen. Irid. 108; Baker, Handb. Irid. 169. Ixia 
corymbosa, Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 2,i.51; Thunb. Diss. No. 10; Prodr. 
9; Fl. Cap. i. 229; Houtt. Handl. xi. 27, t.77. fig..1; Jacq. Ic. t. 288. 
Ovieda corymbosa, Spreng. Syst. i. 147; Klatt in Linnea xxxii. 
780. Peyrousia coryn.bo:a, Sweet, Hort. Brit. edit. 2,499. Meris- 
tostigma corymbosum, Li-tr. Synops. i. 161. L. fastigiata, Ker in 
Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 238. Ixia fastigiata, Lam. Ency. iii. 337. 
(Pluken. Almag. 87, t. 275, fig. 1.) 
Var. 8, L. azurea (Eckl. Top. Verz. $1) ; perianth-limb larger, 4 in. long. 
SouTH A¥Rica: without locality, Zeyher, 1594! 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div., Mader in Herb. MacOwan, 2206! 
Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Thunberg ! sandy flats near Noordhoek, Hout Bay, 
Mac Owan, 2284! and MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 268! Lion Mountain, 
Bolus, 2819! Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 480! Great Drakenstein and foot-of 
the Paarl Mts., below 1000 ft., Drége, 8510! Var. 8, Malmesbury Div.; Groene 
Kloof, MacOwan, 2284b! and MacOwan and Bolus, Herb, Norm., 269! between 
Paarl and Pont, Drége, 8509a! Tulbagh, Ecklon. 
