134 IRIDEZ (Baker). [Acidanthera. 
--18. A. brevicollis (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1876, 339); corm 
depresso-globose ; tunics brown, membranous ; stem about a foot 
long including the inflorescence, simple, terete, flexuose, with 2-3 
reduced sheathing leaves ; produced basal leaves 4—5, linear, erect, 
thick in texture but not rigid, 1-12 ft. long, 4 in. broad ; flowers 
3-4, arranged in a lax spike, with a flexuose axis; outer spathe- 
valve green, oblong-navicular, 3-1 in. long ; perianth bright purple; 
tube cylindrical, as long as the spathe; segments equal, oblong, erect, 
$ in. long; stamens half as long as the segments; anthers lanceolate, 
basifixed, not sagittate, equalling the filaments. Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xvi. 160; Handb. Irid. 187. Gladiolus Gueinzii, Kunze in Linnea 
ex. 14, 
Coast Reeton: sandy places at the mouth of the Great Fish River, © 
MacOwan, 1890! sea shore at the mouth of Keiskamma River, Hutton ! 
EasTERN Reeion: Natal; sea shore at the mouth of Umgeni River, Wood, 
55! 1092! without precise locality, Gueinzius! Cooper, 3197! Mrs. Saunders ! 
14. A ixioides (Baker, Handb. Irid. 188); corm not seen; stem 
slender, simple, 4 ft. long, with one narrow linear leaf nearly a foot 
long from the middle, and a much-reduced one higher up; spike lax, 
simple, few-flowered ; spathe-valves lanceolate, green, an inch long ; 
perianth bright lilac; tube cylindrical, 4 in. long, funnel-shaped at 
the throat, and oblong segments; stamens more than half as long as 
the limb ; style-branches not flattened. 
SoutH AFrica: without locality, Elliot, 1174! 
Recedes from Acidanthera by its very short perianth-tube. 
XXIX. SYNNOTIA, Sweet. 
Perianth with a long tube, cylindrical in the lower part, broadly 
funnel-shaped at the top; segments of the limb oblong, the upper 
outer one the broadest, the others reflexing when the flower is 
expanded, Stamens unilateral, contiguous, arcuate, inserted at the — 
base of the dilated upper part of the tube ; filaments filiform ; anthers 
linear-oblong, basifixed. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules many in a cell ; 
style filiform, its branches simple. Fruit a membranous capsule with 
loculicidal dehiscenee. Seeds globose, or angled by pressure. 
Rootstock, leaves, inflorescence and spathe-val . sh it 
differs by its irregular perianth-lobes. pathe-valves of Sparawis, from which i 
DistriB. Endemic. 
Cylindrical portion of the perianth-tube not longer than the 
Meet coat ee re pe ie se 
Cylindrical portion of the perianth-tube much longer than the 
{pet ee Se ee ee ea 
AL 8. bicolor (Sweet, Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 501); corm ovoid, } in. 
diam. ;. tunics thick, pale, strongly honeycombed ; stems 1-}2 ft. 
long including inflorescence, simple or branched ; leaves about 6 in a 
distichous basal rosette, ensiform, thin in texture, 3-6 in. long; 
flowers 2-6 in very lax spikes; spathe-valves ovate, membranous, 
