92 IRIDEX (Baker). [Lapeyrousia. 
segments; anthers oblong, shorter than the filaments; style equalling 
or overtopping the stamens. 
Coast Region; Tulbagh Div.; Great Winter Hoek, Pappe! 
10. L. Fabricii (Ker in Bot. Mag. sub t. 1246); corm globose, 
with brown, cancellate tunics ending in short bristles and a long 
neck ; basal leaves 2-3, spreading, linear, 2-6 in. long, }-} in. broad, 
moderately firm in texture, with 7-9 strong ribs ; stems 3-1 ft, long 
including the inflorescence, copiously and diffusely branched from 
the base, slightly ancipitous ; flowers 2-4 at the tip of a branch in a 
lax spike ; outer spathe-valve oblong, obtuse, green, herbaceous, ¢ in. 
long ; perianth lilac or white; tube slender, 11~2 in. long ; segments 
patent, oblanceolate, $4 in. long; stamens half as long us the 
perianth-segments. Ker, Gen. Irid. 111; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xvi. 156; Hundb. Irid. 170. Gladiolus Fabricii, Thunb. 
Prodr. 186; Fl. Cap.i.200. Peyrousia Fabricti, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 
edit. 2, 499. Ovieda Fabricii, Spreng. Syst. i..147; Klatt in 
Linnea xxxii. 778. Meristostigma Fabricii, Dietr. Syn. i. 161. 
Gladiolus anceps, Linn. Herb. ex parte! Diasia iridifolia, Eckl. 
Top. Verz. 31, non DC. 
SoutH ArRica : without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Reeion: Cape Flats, Pappe! Zeyher! Bolus, 2818! MacOwan 2517! 
and MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 267! New Kloof, near Tulbagh, under 
‘1000 ft., Drége, 8507a ! 
ll. L. fissifolia (Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 238); corm 
ovoid, with thick, blackish, cancellate tunics ending at the top in 
short bristles; produced basal leaf 1, lanceolate, spreading, 1-4 in. 
long, firm in texture, prominently ribbed; stem very short, with 2-3 
reduced leaves like bracts, sometimes none ; flowers in a simple erect 
spike 2-3 in. long, dense at the top, lax below; outer spathe-valves 
ovate, amplexicaul, herbaceous in texture, lower 4—% in. long, uppet 
shorter and more obtuse ; perianth with a slender tube 1-1} in. long ; 
segments oblanceolate or oblong, 4 in. long, dark or light violet or 
whitish; stamens about half as long as the perianth-segments ; 
avthers 4 in. long; style-branches reaching to the top of the 
stamens. Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1246; Gen. Irid. 109; Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soe. xvi. 155; Handb. Irid.171. Gladiolus fissifolius, 
Jacq. Ic. t. 268 ; Collect. iv. 464. Ovieda fissifolia, Spreng. Syst. 
i, 147. Gladiolus bracteatus, Thunb. Prodr. 186; Fl. Cap. i. 199. 
Lapeyrousia bracteata, Ker in Bot. Mag. sub t. 1246; Gen. Irid. 
110. Peyrousia bracteata, Sweet, Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 499. 
Ovieda bracteata, Spreng. Syst. i. 147. Meristostigma fissifolium 
and bracteatum, Dietr. Synops.i.161. Morea ovata, Thunb. Fl. 
Cap. i. 280. 
South AFrica: without locality, Thunberg ! 
Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div., Mader, 100! near Olifants River, Drege, 
8508! Hex River Kloof, near Worcester, 1000-2000 ft., Drage! Kluitjes 
Kraal, near Ceres Roud, 850 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr., 1541! Caledon 
Div.; between Houw Hoek and Caledon, 600 ft,, MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. 
Norm., 805! Zonder Hinde River, near Appels Kral. Zeyher, 4025! 
