168 in1pEz (Baker). [ Antholyza. 
segment ; style protruding beyond it. Handb. Irid. 229. Tritonia 
fucata ; Herbert in Bot. Reg. 1838, ¢. 35. 
Sout AFRICA: witbout locality. 
Kuown only from the figure cited, which was drawn from specimens grown by 
Dean Herbert at Spofforth in 1837. ; 
7. A. paniculata (Klatt in Linnea xxxv. 379); corm large, 
globose; stems stout, terete, 3-4 ft. long; fully developed lower 
leaves lanceolate, very oblique at the base, rigid, but thin in texture, 
11-2 ft. long, 2-8 in. broad, with 9-11 distant prominent ribs ; 
inflorescence copiously panicled; spikes equilateral, close, many- 
flowered, with a very wavy rachis; spathe-valves rigid, brown, 
oblong, 4-4 in. long; perianth bright reddish-yellow.; tube curved, 
1-1; in. long, gradually widened to a throat 4 in, diam.; upper 
segment lingulate, 4-2 in. long; the others smaller, spreading, 
lanceolate; stamens reaching to the tip of the upper segment. 
Baker, Handb, Irid. 229. 
Kaxarari Recion: 'l'ransvaal; by the side of streams, Lomatie Valley, near 
Barberton, 4000 1t., Galpin, 1211! MecMac, near Pilgrims Rest, Mudd / 
EasteRN Racion: Natal; upper part of Tugela River, Allison! Klip River 
oa! bank of » stream, Wood, 3499! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 
0! : 
A very fine and distinct species, remarkable for its palm-like leaves, copiously- 
panicled spikes, and small rigid spathee. 
8. A. Cunonia (Linn. Sp. Plant. edit. 2. i. 54); corm small, globose; 
tunics membranous; stem simple, 1-1} ft. long, with several re- 
duced leaves with short, free, linear points; produced leaves about 
4, linear, moderately firm in texture, 3-1 ft. long; flowers 4-6, 
bright red, arranged in a very lax spike ; spathe-valves herbaceous, 
green, lanceolate, $ in. long; perianth-tube an inch long, faintly 
saccate at the base of the cylindrical upper half; upper segment 
spoon-shaped, 14 in, long; lateral much shorter, obovate, adnate to 
the upper segment halfway up; basal very small and inserted 
lower down ; stamens reaching to the tip of the upper segment; 
capsule oblong, membranous, }-} in. long; seeds discoid, with a 
broad wing. Miller Ic. 75,#.113; Thunb. Diss. No. 4; Prodr. 7; 
Fl. Cap. i. 165; Red, Lil. t. 12; Baker, Handb, Irid. 231. Cunonia 
Antholyza, Miller, Gard. Dict. edit. viii. Gladiolus Ownonia, Ker in 
Konig and Sims’ Ann. i. 230; Gen. Irid. 180. Anisanthus Cunonia, 
Sweet, Hort. Brit, edit. 2,500; Klatt in Linnea xxxii. 728. 
Coast ReGion: near Town, Thunberg ! ivi 
Muizenberg, Bolus, “S711 "aimone Bay, Wright hac 22 & rons ea tenets 
River, Rogers ! 
9, A. saccata (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi, 180); corm 
ovoid, small ; tunics brown, membranous ; stems 2-3 ft. long, simple 
or branched, with several superposed long-sheathing leaves with 
free linear points ; lower leaves narrow linear, moderately firm in 
texture, bright green, about a foot long, with 3 strong ribs; flowers 
4-10 in lax secund. spikes; spathe-valves lanceolate, green, herba- 
ceous, 3-1 in. long; perianth-tube 1-1) in. long, conspicuously 
