94 1riDE# (Baker). [ Lapeyrousia. 
spike with a stiff subterete axis; outer spathe-valves lanceolate, 
acute, green, moderately firm in texture, $-1 in. long; perianth pale 
lilac ; tube slender, 1-1} in. long; segments of the limb lanceolate, 
1_2 in. long; stamens half as long as the perianth-segments, 
' Kananarr Reoion: Bechuanaland; Chooi Desert, near Giraffe Station, 
Burchell, 2341! 2350! : 
Very near L. silenoides, from which it differs by its longer leaves and perianth- 
segments, 
16. L. delagoensis (Baker, Handb. Irid. 171); corm not seen; 
produced basal leaf single, spreading, linear, 1-2 ft. long; stem 
branched from the base; branches of panicle 5-6, strongly ancipitous, 
4-6 in. long, subtended at the base by reduced linear leaves ; spikes 
lax ; outer spathe-valves lanceolate, green, 1-1} in. long ; perianth- 
tube slender, 14-12 in. long; segments half as long as the tube, 
linear-lanceolate, reddish ; stamens half as long as the segments. 
Eastern Reaion: Delagoa Bay; sandy places, Lourengo Marquez, under 
50 ft., Bolus, 7618 ! 
17. L. anceps (Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 238) ; corm ovoid; 
tunics brown, cancellate, plicate at the base; produced basal leaf 
one, linear, 3 ft. long, moderately firm in texture, strongly ribbed, 
$+ in. broad, the other leaves much shorter, lanceolate, amplexicaul ; 
stems 3-1 ft. long including the inflorescence, with several arcuate 
branches, very ancipitous; flowers 2-5, in lax spikes with an 
angled flexuose rachis ; outer spathe-valve ovate, herbaceous, pale 
green, 4-3 in. long ; perianth lilac or white, with a slender tube 1-1} 
in. long ; segments of the limb oblanceolate, 13 in. long, the three 
upper larger than the three lower; stamens about half as long as the 
perianth-segmeuts. Ker, Gen. Irid. 110; Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. 
t. 143; Baker, Handb. Irid.172. Gladiolus anceps, Linn, fil. Suppl. 
94, ex parte ; Thunb. Diss. No. 17, t. 2, fig. 3; Prodr. 8; Fl. Cap. 
1.198; Jacq. Ic. t. 269. Ovieda anceps, Spreng. Syst.i. 147; Klatt in 
Linnea xxxii.778. Meristostigma anceps, Dietr. Syst. i. 161. Ixia 
Fabricii, Delaroche, Deser. 18. L. compressa, Pourr. Mém. Acad. Toul. 
iii. 80, ¢. 6. Ixia pyramidalis, Lam, Ency. iii. 334. Gladiolus denti- 
culatus, Lam. Ill. i. 118. Witsenia pyramidalis, Pers. Syn. i. 42. 
Var. 6, L. aculeata (Sweet, Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 396); outer spathe-valve 
denticulate down the keel; perianth-limb 4-3 in. long, with broader segments. 
Klatt, Erganz. 26. Gladiolus anceps, Herb. Linn., ew parte. Ovieda aculeat 
Klatt in Linnea xxxii. 777. Peyrousia aculeata, Sweet, Brit. Flow. 
ser. 2, t. 39. 
Soura Arica: without locality, Burchell! Var. 8, Zeyher, 1617! 
Coast ReGion : Tulbagh, Thom ! Maimesbury Div. ; alate and region of 
Saldanha Bay (including Var. 8), Thunberg! Var. 8, Clanwilliam Div., Mader 
tm Herb. MacOwan, 2136 ! Piquetberg, 1000-2000 ft., Drage ! 
Pl eimecse Region: Little Namaqualand ; near Ookiep, Morris in Herb. Bolus, 
18, L. macrospatha (Baker) ; corm small; onter coats crustaceous, 
brown ; produced leaves 1-2, linear, firm, glabrous, falcate, 13-3 in. 
long ; inflorescence branched from near the ground ; spikes lax, few- 
