Lapeyrousia. |} tRiDE£ (Baker). 93 
CentraL Reeion: Tulbagh Div.; between Great Dvorn River and Little 
Doorn River, Burchell, 1213! 
WesTeRN ReGion: Little Namaqualana, up to between 1000 and 2000 ft.; 
region near the Groen and Zwartdoorn Rivers, Drége, 264la! 2641b! near 
Mierenkasteel, Drége, 2642 ! 
12. L. montana (Klatt, Ergiinz. 25) ; corm ovoid; produced leaf 
1, subterete, 4 in. long, } lin. diam. ; stem simple, terete, 2 in. long, 
flowers in a simple spike; outer spathe-valve ovate, amplexicaul ; 
foliaceous, 13 in. long ; perianth-tube cylindrical, 14 in. long ; seg- 
ments elliptic, acute, pale vivlet, blotched with yellow at the base, 
4 in. long; anthers equalling the filaments. Baker, Handb. Irid, 
171, 
CrentRAL Region: Calvinia Div. ; on the Hantam Mountains, Meyer. 
May be a variety of L. fissifolia, of which a form guthered by Drage on the 
mountains north of the Olifants River, alt. 1000-2000 ft., has subterete leaves, but 
much smaller spathe-valves, 
13. L. Barklyi (Baker, Handb. Irid. 171); corm not seen; pro- 
duced leaves 3—4, subterete or narrow linear, } ft. long, },—} in. 
broad, with a dilated lanceolate base, moderately firm in texture, 
strongly ribbed ; stem } ft. long including the inflorescence, branched 
low down, ancipitous, the lower branches divaricate; flowers 3-5 
in a lax spike with a triquetrous axis ; outer spathe-valve lanceolate, 
herbaceous, acuminate, #-1 in. long; perianth lilac; tube slender, 
# in, long, dilated at the top; limb of the same length with oblong- 
unguiculate segments ; stamens half as long as the segments ; anthers 
4 in. long, equalling the filaments. 
Western Reaion: Little Namaqualand; without precise locality, Barkly! 
near Abbevlakte, 600 ft., Bolus, 6576! : 
14. L. silenoides (Ker in Bot. Mag. sub t. 1246); corm ovoid, 
3 in. diam., with thick, dark brown tunics; basal leaves linear, 
14-2 in. long ; stem 4 ft. long including the inflorescence, ancipitous, 
branched from the base, with many reduced leaves; spikes few- 
flowered, very lax; outer spathe-valves lanceolate, green, 1 in. long; 
perianth-tube whitish, subeylindrical, 1-1} in. long; segments 
oblanceolate, bright red, spreading, 4 in. long; stamens as long as 
the perianth-segments; style-branches overtopping the anthers. 
Ker, Gen. Irid. 111 ; Baker in’ Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 156 ; Handh. 
Irid. 171. Gladiolus silencides, Jacq. Ic. t. 270 ; Collect. iv. 468. 
Ovieda silenoides, Spreng. Syst. i. 147. Meristostiyma silenoides, 
Inetr. Synops. i. 161. 
Sovtn AFgica: without locality. 
Known to me only from Jacquin’s figure. 
15. L. Burchellii (Baker, Handb, Irid. 171); corm globose, with 
reticulated brown tunics; basal leaves subterete or narrow linear, 
6-9 in. long, firm in texture, strongly ribbed ; stems 3-1 ft. long 
including the inflorescence, subterete, diffusely and copiously branched 
from near the base ; flowers 4-8 to a branch, arranged in a very lax 
