116 1RIDEZ (Baker). [Sparazis. 
ments. Stamens inserted at the throat of the perianth-tube, 
unilateral, assurgent; filaments short, filiform; anthers lanceolate, 
contiguous. Ovary 3-celled; ovules crowded in the cells; style 
filiform, protruded from the perianth-tube, with 3 faleate, subulate, 
entire branches. Capsule small, membranous, turbinate, loculicidally 
3-valved. Seeds globose or angled by pressure. 
Rootstock a corm with finely-reticulated tunics ; leaves in a fan-like, distichous 
rosette ; flowers few, very showy, arranged in simple or panicled spikes; spathe- 
valves membranons, lacerated, wrapped round the ovary and perianth-tube. 
Disrzis. Endemic. Only one species in a broad sense, varying indefinitely in 
the size and colouring of the flowers. 
Throat of perianth same colour as segments : 
Flowers smaller (1) bulbifera. 
Flowers larger - ... er dee sc ben .. (2) grandiflora. 
Throat of perianth bright yellow, with a dark blotch below 
each segment ... a ees cs. ee ne «-- (3) tricolor. 
1. 8. bulbifera (Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 226); corm 
globose, 4—? in. diam., with fleshy root-fibres, and finely-reticulated, 
white, membranous tunics; stems erect, terete, simple or forked, 
3-13 ft. long, with 2-3 reduced sheathing leaves low down, often 
bearing bulbille in their axils; leaves of the basal rosette about 4, 
lanceolate or linear, 3-1 ft. long, moderately firm in texture, the 
outer spreading; flowers few to a spike, sometimes solitary, typically 
yellow ; spathes 3 in. long, membranous, whitish, with copious brown 
dots and lines, wrapped tightly round the ovary and tube, deeply 
laciniated at the top, the processes brown and whip-like; perianth- 
tube 3 in. long, dilated into a funnel in the upper half; segments 
oblong, }—# in. long ; anthers} in. long, protruded from the perianth- 
tube; style-branches overtopping the anthers. Ker, Gen. Irid. 94; 
Klatt in Linnea xxxii. 748; Baker, Handb. Irid. 197. Inca 
bulbifera, Linn. Sp. Plant. edit. 2.i.51; Burm. Prodr.1; Ker in 
Bot. Mag. t.545; Red. Lil. t. 128; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 48. Ixia 
bulbifera, var. flava, Thunb. Diss. No. 17. 
Var. 8, 8. violacea (Eckl. Top. Verz. 27); flowers dark purple, Klatt, 
Ergiinz. 55. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Zeyher! Thom! Burchell! 
Coast ReGion: Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Thunberg! between Groene 
—_ and Saldanha Bay, below 500 ft., Drége, 8846a! Var. 8, Caledon Div., 
yher ! 
S. albiflora, Eckl. Top. Verz. 28, is a form with the flower whitish inside. 
2.8. grandiflora (Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 225); habit, 
corm, leaves and spathe just as in S. bulbifera, but the flowers larger, 
with a limb an inch or more long, and oblong segments often 3 in. 
broad, usually yellow or purple ; spathes 3—1 in. long, laciniated half- 
way down ; anthers also larger than in S. bulbifera. Ker in Bot. 
Mag. t. 779; Bot. Reg. t. 258 ; Gen. Irid. 94; Baker, Handb. Irid. 
197. Ixia grandiflora, Delaroche, Deser. 23; Houtt. Handl. xii. 29, 
t. 77, fig. 3; Ker in Bot, Mag. t. 541; Red. Lil. tt. 139 and 362. 
Ixia bulbifera, Thunb. Diss. No.17, ex parte. I. aristata, Ait. Hort. 
