Sparazis.] rRipEx (Baker), 117 
Kew. i. 57; Andr. Bot. Rep. t.87,non Thunb. I.monanthos, Delaroche, 
Descr. 21, I. uniflora, Linn, Mant. 27; Jacq. Ic. t. 283. I. holo- 
sericea, -Jacg. Hort. Schoenbr.i. 9, t. 17. S. fimbriata, Ker in Konig 
and Sims’ Ann. i. 226. I. fimbriata, Lam. Encye, iii. 339; Il. i. 
111. Belamcanda semiflexuosa, Moench, Meth. Suppl. 214. 8S. lacera, 
Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 226. S. atropurpurea and 
miniata, Klatt, Erginz. 55. S. Liliago, Sweet, Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 
501. Ixia Liliago, Red. Lil. t.109. I. anemoneflora, Red. Lil. t. 
85. S. stellaris, D. Don in Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. ser. 2, t. 383. 
Coast Recion; Lion Mountain, Thunberg! Drége! MacUwan and Bolus, 
Herb, Norm., 276! Malmesbury Div.; near Groene Kloof, 300 ft., Bolus, 4344! 
Worcester Div., Zeyher ! Cooper, 8178! Tulbagh Div. ; Steendaal, near Tulbagh, 
900 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 583! MacOwan, 2679! near 
Tulbagh, Thunberg ! 
Exceedingly variable in flower colouring, the principal named forms being 
atropurpurea, dark purple, anemoneflora, pale yellow, Liliago, white flushed 
with claret purple outside, and s¢ellaris, dark purple, with oblanceolate, acute, 
narrower segments. 
3. 8. tricolor (Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 225) ; differs only 
from S. grandiflora in the colour of the flowers, which are fulvous, 
dark purple, yellow, more or less flushed with brown purple, or white 
flushed on the back with claret-purple in the upper half, but have 
always a bright yellow throat with a dark cuneate, emarginate blotch 
at the base of each segment. Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1482, and sub ¢. 
779; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, i. 85; Ker, Gen. Irid. 93; Baker, 
Handb. Irid. 197. Ixia tricolor, Curt. in Bot. Mag. t. 381; Schneev. 
Ic. t. 89.; Red. Lil. t.129. Streptanthera tricolor and lineata, Klatt, 
Erganz. 56. Sparazis versicolor, Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard. t. 160. 
S. Griffini and blanda, Sweet, Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 501. Klatt, Ergénz. 
55. 8. lineata, Sweet, Brit. Flow. Gard, ser. 2, #. 131. 8S. meleagris 
and cana, Eckl. Top. Verz. 27-28. 
Coast Region : Stellenbosch, Sanderson, 942! 
The favourite species of cultivators. Figures of a series of garden forms will be 
found in Van Houtte’s Flore des Serres, vol. ii. July, 1846. 
Doubtful species. 
4, 8. fragrans (Ker in Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 224); bulb small, 
ovoid; tunics brown, membranous ; stem simple, slender, terete, 
under a foot long; leaves about 6 in a basal rosette, avd one 
suprabasal, long, linear, glabrous; flowers 2, in a lax, erect spike ; 
spathe-valves short, membranous, deeply lacerated ; perianth-tube 
very short, cylindrical ; segments spreading, orange-yellow, under an 
inch long, narrow oblong ; stamens half as long as the perianth-limb ; 
anthers large ; style reaching to the top of the stamens; branches 
spreading, } in. long. Gen. Irid. 93. Ixia fragrans, Jacq. Ic. t. 
274. 
Sovtu Arrica: without locality. 
Known only from Jacqnin’s figure, drawn about 1790 from a garden 
specimen. 
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