Haworthia. ] _- Lagtace® (Baker). 355 
dense, multifarious, oblong-lanceolate, 1-1} in. long, 3 in. broad at 
the middle, 4 in. thick, pale glaucous green, pellucid and lineate on 
both sides in the upper third, flat on the face, rounded on the back 
and keeled in the upper half, tipped with a large pellucid awn; 
margin and keel ciliated with spreading pellucid lanceolate-subulate 
teeth 4-1 in. long; peduncle simple, 4 ft. long; raceme simple, 
many-flowered, 3 ft. long; lower pedicels ~,—-§ in. long; bracts 
small, deltoid ; perianth 2 in, long ; limb half as long as the tube, 
CgnTRAL REGION : common about Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 158 ! 
Tatroduced into cultivation by Bowie in 1823. 
63. H. stenophylla (Baker in Hook. Ic, Pl, t, 1974); bulb ovoid; 
tunics few, thin, ovate; leaves 4, stiffly erect, narrow linear, 6-8 in. 
long, with a prominent midrib and revolute entire margins ; 
peduncle slender, a foot long; raceme lax, simple, 3-4 in. long; 
pedicels short, erecto-patent, articulated at the middle ; lower bracts 
lanceolate, ¢ in. long; perianth dull pinkish, the tube cylindrical, 
z in. long; segments linear, subequally falcate, rather shorter than 
tube ; stamens included in the perianth-tube. H, Saundersie, Baker 
in Hook. Ic. Pl. sub t. 1974, name only. 
Katauart Recion: Transvaal; grassy slopes of the Saddleback Range, 
rear Barberton, 3600 ft., Galpin, 858! near Steyn, Mrs. K. Saunders, 9! 
64. H. tenuifolia (Engl. in. Jahrb. x. 2, t. 1) ; rootstock bulbous ; 
leaves linear from a dilated scariose base, 3 ft..or more long, {—} in. 
broad, minutely setoso-dentate; peduncle above a foot long; raceme 
dense upwards; pedicels very short; bracts ovate or oblong, acute, 
;-} in. Jong; perianth nearly an inch long; segments 3-7 as long as 
the tube. 
Katanari Recion Bechuanaland ; near Kuruman, 3600 ft., Marloth, 1049 ! 
XI. BULBINELLA, Kunth. 
Perianth campanulate, marcescent, persistent ; segments distinct, 
oblong, subequal, 1-nerved, Stamens 6, hypogynous or attached to 
the base of the perianth-segments; filaments filiform or slightly 
flattened ; anthers oblong, small, dorsifixed, versatile, dehiscing 
introrsely. Ovary sessile, subglobose, 3-celled ; ovules 2, collateral, 
erect ; style cylindrical ; stigma capitate. Capsule globose, dehiscing 
loculicidally. Seeds often solitary ; testa black; albumen fleshy. 
Root of fleshy fascicled fibres; leaves all radical, terete or flat; seape leafless, 
usually simple; flowers small, whitish or yellow, racemose; bracts solitary ; 
pedicels articulated at the apex. 
Disrets. Two other species, one in New Zealand, the other in the Campbell 
and Auckland islands. 
