Babiana.] — ir1pEx (Baker). 109 
_ South Argica: without locality, Thunderg! Burchell! Villett! Drége, 8404! 
Harvey, 838! 
Coast Recion: Malmesbury Div.; Groene Kloof, MacOwan, 2479! 
7. B. sambucina (Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 234); corm 
globose, tunicated ; basal leaves 5-6, ensiform, petioled, plicate, pilose, 
overtopping the inflorescence, about 4 in. broad; peduncle including 
inflorescence $-1 ft. long; flowers in few or several dense spikes; 
outer spathe-valve lanceolate, pubescent, 13-2 in. long; perianth 
deep lilac; tube 13-2 in. long, funnel-shaped at the top ; segments 
subequal, oblong-spathulate, 1 in. long; stamens not more than half 
‘as long as the segments; style-branches cuneate at the tip. Bot. 
Mag. t. 1019; Gen. Irid. 152 ; Baker, Handb. Irid. 181. Gladiolus 
sambucinus, Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. t. 15. G. ringens, «, Herb. 
Thunb. 
Souts Arrica: without locality, Thunberg ! 
8. B. densiflora (Klatt, Erginz. 14); corm ovoid; tunics brown, 
of thick fibres ; stems glabrous, terete, curved, 6-8 in. long ; leaves 
hairy, plicate; outer ensiform, } ft. long, $ in. broad ; inner linear ; 
flowers 8-9 in a dense spike ; spathe-valves membranous, cuspidate, 
unequal ; outer 13 in. long; perianth whitish; tube slender, lilac, 
2 in. long; limb 8 lines long with oblong-spathulate segments, the 
three lower with two purple spots, Baker, Handb, Irid. 181. 
Centeat Recion: Calvinia Div.; on the Hantam Mountains, Meyer. 
9. B. Dregei (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1876, 336) ; corm not seen ; 
leaves very thick and rigid in texture, ensiform, plicate, glabrous, 
9-12 in. long, 3-1 in. broad at the middle, with thick stramineous 
ribs and margins; flowers in 3—4 congested erect spikes on a short 
common peduncle; outer spathe-valve oblong-lanceolate, 13-2 in. 
long, firm in texture, closely ribbed, glabrous; perianth-tube cylin- 
drical, 2-21 in. long, dilated into a funnel at the top; segments 
oblong-spathulate, subequal, an inch long; stamens half as long as 
the limb; style-branches flattened at the tip. Journ, Linn, Soc, xvi. 
165; Handbd. Irid. 181. 
WestEsn Recion: Little Namaqualand; Uitkomst, 2000-3000 ft., Drage, 
2628 ! 
10. B. namaquensis (Baker, Handb. Irid. 181); corm globose, 
1 in, diam., with a neck 2 in, long ; leaves several, linear, 1-13 in. 
long, spirally curled, very hairy; spikes 2, congested, subsessile on 
the surface of the soil; spathe-valves oblong, acute, scariose, } in, 
long ; perianth-tube as long as the spathe; segments. dark purple, 
obovate-oblong, an inch long; style half as long as the perianth- 
segments, with declinate branches about 2 lines long. 
Wesrern Recion : Little Namaqualand; in sandy ground near Port Nolloth, 
Bolus, 6579 ! (not 4348 as quoted in the Handb. Irid.). 
11. B. pygmm@a (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 165); corm 
ovoid, 4 in. diam.; tunics brown, membranous ; leaves 4—5, with a 
