356 uiLiace® (Baker). [ Bulbinella, 
Racemes simple : 
Leaves very slender, subterete, 1-3-nerved : 
Lower pedicels 3—} in. long: 
Root crowned with bristles Ad a ... (1) triquetra. 
Root crowned with a membranous sheath ..» (2) peronata. 
Lower pedicels 1-2 in. long... 20s ve . (3) filiformis. 
Leaves linear, 6-12-nerved : ; 
Pigeee Winks 2. Se ee ane = .. (4) candata, 
Flowers bright yellow... +h ods 
Leaves linear or lanceolate, many-nerved : 
Flowers whitish; stamens half as Jong as the 
vee awe (5) gracilia. 
perianth... sa mes es ies Ae ... (6) carmosa. 
Flowers bright yellow; stamens as long as the 
perianth.., vee eee ee eee oe ... (7) robusta, 
Racemes copiously panicled es ee prec ae Pe 
1. B. triquetra (Kunth, Enum. iv. 573); root of numerous fleshy 
fibres, its apex crowned with a dense mass of bristles; leaves 
numerous, slender, terete, firm, glabrous, persistent, 4-6 in. long; 
peduncle slender, terete, simple, 1-1 ft. long; raceme dense, oblong 
or cylindrical, 1-3 in. long, 4 in. diam.; pedicels ascending, lower 
1-1 in. long; bracts minute, ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; perianth 
whitish, rarely bright yellow, + in. long; stamens and pistil nearly as 
long as the perianth ; capsule globose, as long as the perianth. An- 
thericum triquetrum, Linn. fil. Suppl. 202; Thunb. Prodr. 62; Fl. 
Cap. edit. Schult. 317; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 293. 
Bulbine triquetra, Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 451. Bulbinella 
setifolia, Kunth, Enum. iv. 569. B. capillaris, Kunth, Enum. iv. 
572. Phalangium capillare, Poir. Encyc. vii. 247. Anthericum 
capillare, Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 457. 
Var. 8, trinervis (Baker) ; taller, more robust, with obscurely 3-nerved leaves. 
Anthericum triquetrum var. trinervis, Baker in Journ, Linn. Soe, xv. 294. 
Sourm ArFgica : without locality, Masson! Oldenburg! Harvey, 109! 
Coast Region: Malmesbury Div., Zeyher, 1690! near Groene Kloof, Mac- 
Owan, 2483! between Groene Kloof and Saldanha Bay, below 5CO ft., Drég-, 
1503! Malmesbury, Bachmann, 1821! 2073! near Cape Town, Bolus, 3763! 
Secu a, — Var. 8, Caledon Div. ; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek Mts., 
CENTRAL ReEeion : Var. 8, Tulbagh Div. ; Cold Bokkeveld, Thunberg ! 
Western Reaion : Little Namaqualand, Zeyher, 1691! Whitehead ! 
2. B. peronata (Kunth, Enum. iv. 570) ; leaves numerous, terete, 
very slender, 3-4 in. long, surrounded at the base by a reticulated 
membranous sheath ; peduncle simple, a foot long; raceme dense, 
oblong-cylindrical ; lower pedicels 2 in. long ; bracts ovate-cuspidate ; 
perianth yellow, 3 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse ; stamens about 
as long as the perianth. Anthericum peronatum, Baker in Journ. 
Bot..1879. 187 ¢ Journ, Link; Baceae. 404.0. 
Coast Regiow: Tul Div. ft. 
Drige 66. ena Diveg Roodsennd; near ‘Talbagh, below 1000 %, 
Known to me only by description, 
3. B, filiformis (Kunth, Enum. iv. 572); leaves subterete, 
glabrous, 15-18 in. long, obscurely 3-nerved; peduncle simple, 
