Gladiolus.) IRIDEX (Baker). 145 
Katanart Reaion: Transvaal; Saddleback Range and Devils Kantoor, 
4500 ft., Galpin, 1024! 
Eastern ReGion: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 618! and without precise locality, 
Buchanan ! 
A.near ally of @. brevifolius, Jacq. 
20. G. tenuis (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1876, 335); corm not seen; 
flowering-stem very slender, terete, 13-2 ft. long, with 3 superposed 
leaves with long glabrous sheaths and produced linear points of 
moderately firm texture, the lowest 1-14 ft. long, }-¢ in. broad ; 
flowers 4—6, in a lax spike, pale pink, all ascending; outer spathe- 
valves green, oblong-lanceolate, 2-1 in. long; perianth with a 
straight tube 1 in. long, funnel-shaped in the upper half; segments 
# in. long, obscurely cuspidate, the upper obovate, 1 in. broad, the 
others oblong, }—i in. broad ; stamens reaching more than halfway 
up the perianth-limb. Journ.'Linn. Soc. xvi. 174; Handb, Irid. 
208. 
Coast Reeron : Swellendam Div.; Craggy Peak on the Lange Bergen near 
Swellendam, Burchell, 7303 ! 7421! 
21. G. debilis (Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 2585) ; corm globose ; tunics 
of strong wiry fibres ; flowering-stem very slender, simple, 1-13 ft. 
long ; leaves 3, superposed, with long glabrous sheaths and long, free, 
subterete prints of firm texture, that of the lowest overtopping the 
stem ; flowers 1-3, white, suberect ; outer spathe-valve green, lanceo- 
late, $-1 in. long; perianth-tube straight, } in. long, narrowly 
funnel-shaped up to the top; segments oblong, obtuse, subequal, as 
long as the tube, two of the inner with a spade-shaped lilac or claret-red 
blotch at the throat; stamens half as long as the perianth-limb. 
Klatt in Linnea xxxii. 705 ; Baker, Handb. Irid. 207. Geissorhiza 
albens, E. Meyer in herb. Drege. 
Coast Recion: Cape Flats, Thunberg! Pappe! Mountains near Simons 
Town, 1000 ft., Bolus, 4949! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof and Drakenstein 
Mts., 2000-4000 ft., Drége! Culedon Div.; Klein River Berg, Zeyher, 3988! 
on the Zwartberg near the Hot Springs, 1000 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. 
Norm., 280! 
Is in Herb. Thunberg, under Ivia linearis. 
22. G. Bolusii (Baker, Handb. Irid. 208) ; corm not seen ; flower- 
ing-stem slender, simple, 13-2 ft. long, with 3 long-sheathing, gla- 
brous leaves with long, free, terete points, the lower overtopping the 
stem ; flowers 2-4 in a lax spike, bright pink, all ascending; spathe- 
valves oblong-navicular, green, }-1 in, long; perianth-tube funnel- 
shaped, $ in. long; segments obovate, 1 in. long, 3-3 in. broad; 
stamens reaching halfway up the limb. 
‘ Ried Reeion: Winterboek Mountain, near Tulbagh, 3000 ft., Bolus, 
! 
May be a variety of G, inflatus. 
23. G. biflorus (Klatt in Trans. South Afric. Phil. Soc. iii. pt. 2, 
197) ; corm globose, 4 in. diam. ; tunics dull brown, lacerated from the 
base upwards; flowering-stems slender, terete, glabrous, 6-8 in. long, 
with only one produced, strongly-ribbed, subterete leaf of firm texture, 
