Bulbinella.] LILIACEZ (Baker). 357 
slender, flexuose, about a foot long ; raceme very lax, few-flowered ; 
pedicels erect, 13-2 in. long; bracts minute, lanceolate ; perianth 
bright yellow, } in. long ; segments oblong-lanceolate ; keel greenish ; 
stamens nearly as long as the perianth. Anthericum filiforme, Ait. 
Hort. Kew, i, 451; edit. 2, ii. 267; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 135 ; 
Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 456. Phalangium filiforme, Poir. 
ae v. 247. Anthericum Aitoni, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 
4, 
Sovura Arrica : without locality. 
.._ Described from a type specimen of Aiton’s plant in the herbarium of the British 
Museum, dried from Kew Gardens in the year 1778. Introduced by Masson. 
4, B. caudata (Kunth, Enum. iv. 572); root a dense mass of 
fleshy fibres, crowned by a ring of copious bristles ; leaves linear, 
moderately firm in texture, 1-1} ft. long, }-1 in. broad at the middle, 
tapering gradually to the point, 8-12-nerved, } in. broad at the 
clasping base; peduncle slender, stramineous, 1-2 ft. long; raceme 
dense, oblong, 2—4 in. long, about an inch in diameter ; lower pedicels 
about } in. long; bracts minute, ovate or ovate-lanceolate ; perianth 
whitish, + in.long; segments oblong, obtuse ; keel ultimately brownish ; 
stamens as long as the perianth; capsule 3 in. long. Anthericum 
Cauda-felis, Linn. fil. Suppl. 202 ; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 146 ; Baker 
tn Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 295. Bulbine Cauda-feliz, Roem. et 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 450. Anthericum caudatum, Thunb. Prodr. 
63; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult, 321. 
Var. 8, B. ciliolata (Kunth, Enum. iv. 570) ; leaves narrower and firmer in 
texture, with more incurved margins; raceme about } in, diam. Anthericum 
ciliolatum, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1872, 137 ; Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 294. 
Coast Recon: Malmesbury Div.; Zwartland, Thunberg ! between Groene 
Kloof and Saldanha Bay, below 500 ft., Drége! Cape Div.; Koeberg and Tyger- 
berg, MacOwan, 2500! Tulbagh Div.; Winter Hoek Mountain, 5000 ft., Bolus, 
5269! Var. 8, Tulbagh Div.; Warm Bokkeveld near Ceres, 1800 ft., Bolus, 
2620! Uniondale Div. ; Brak Kloof near Uniondale, Bolus, 2494! 
Western REGION: Little Namaqualand, Morris in Herb. Bolus, 5808! 
Scully, 14! Var, 8, Little Namaqualand, between Uitkomst and Geelbeks 
Kraal, 2000-3000 ft., Drége, 2668 ! 
5. B. gracilis (Kunth, Enum. iv. 571); root of cylindrical fibres, 
without any bristles at the crown; leaves weak, linear, 5 ft. long, 
3-1 line broad, faintly 6—-8-nerved ; peduncle simple, slender, terete, 
1-12 ft. long ; raceme oblong, 1-14 in. long, 1 in. diam. ; pedicels 
erecto-patent, lower 4-2 in. long; bracts minute, ovate ; perianth 
bright yellow, 1 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse ; stamens nearly 
as long as the perianth. Anthericum gracile, Baker in Journ. Bot. 
1872, 137; Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 295. A. nutans, Thunb. Prodr. 
63 ; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 319; Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xv. 294, 
non Jacq. 
8 : without locality, Thunberg ! 
2 tt "Unie hii Kamics Bergen, 3000-4000 ft., 
Drage, 2670a! Near Mieren Kasteel, Drége, 2670b! 
