362 LILIACEH (Baker). [Bulbine. 
deltoid-cuspidate, with a dentate white base ; perianth bright yellow, 
t in. long ; capsule turbinate, 2 in. diam. 
Katanari Reaion: Bechuanaland ; at the source of the Moshowa River, near 
Takun, Burchell, 2279! Orange Free State; Caledon River, Burke / 
8. B. favosa (Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 444) ; perennial, 
acaulescent, with a large tuberous rootstock ; leaves rosulate, sub- 
terete, slender, 4 ft. long, 4,—1 in. diam. low down; peduncle slender, 
fragile, 1-1 ft. long; raceme lax, 4-6 in. long, an inch in diameter; 
lower pedicels } in. long; bracts minute, deltoid-cuspidate ; perianth 
bright yellow, + in. long; capsule the size of a pea. Kunth, Enum. 
iv. 564; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 343. Anthericum favosum, 
Thunb. Prodr. 63; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 321. 
Coast Recion: Cape Flats, Thunberg! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm., 
pads near Kenilworth, Bolus, 7055! Table Mountain, 800-1500 ft., Bolus, 
9. B. asphodeloides (Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 444); 
acaulescent, perennial, with a short, thick, tuberous rootstock ; leaves 
10-20, subterete from a dilated clasping base } in. broad, 3-1 ft. 
long, ~,—3 in. thick at the middle, glaucous, tapering to the point, 
nearly flat on the face ; peduncle 4-1 ft. long, ancipitous towards the 
base ; raceme dense, sometimes } ft. long, 14-2 in. diam.; lower 
pedicels erecto-patent, 1-$ in. long; bracts lanceolate-deltoid with 
a long cusp ; perianth bright yellow, }—} in. long ; capsule turbinate, 
1 in. diam.; seeds 3-4 inacell. Kunth, Enum. iv. 564; Baker in 
Journ, Linn. Soc. xv. 345. Anthericum asphodeloides, Linn, Sp. 
Plant, 311; Miller, Gard, Dict. edit. viii. No. 6 ; Jacg. Hort. Vind. ii. 
85, t. 181. B. graminea, Haw. Revis. 33? B. abyssinica, A. Rich. 
Fl. Abyss. ii. 334, t. 97. 
Coast Bxcrton: Cape Flats and neighbourhood of Cape Town, Zeyher, 1692! 
Ecklon and her, 186! Pappe! Caledon Div.; Hartebeest River, Zeyher, 
4227! near the Zonder Einde River, Zeyher, 4228! Riversdale Div. ; between 
Zoetmelks River and Little Vet River, Burchell, 6288! 
CrxtRaLt Recron: Somerset Div.; near Little Fish River, MacOwan, 1834! 
Colesberg Div., Shaw! Hanover Div.; near Hanover, Shaw, 53! 
Katanari Recion: Griqualand West; between Spuigslang and the Vaal 
River, Burchell, 1711! near the Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 2002! 2u89 
Orange Free State; near Nelsons Kop, Cooper, 878! Bechuanaland ; on the 
rocky ridge at Takun, Burchell, 2258! between Kuruman and the Vaal River, 
Cruickshank in Herb. Bolus, 2551! Transvaal; near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4300! 
(a form with very slender leaves). 
Eastern Region: Tembuland; near Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 99! Natal; 
Inanda, Wood, 1008! without preciee locality, Gerrard, 357! 
Also Abyssinia, Angola, and highlands of the Zambesi. 
10. B. longiscapa (Willd. Enum. 372); acaulescent, perennial, 
with a small tuberous rootstock ; leaves 12-20, subterete, fleshy, 
‘very glaucous, 8-12 in. long, } in. diam. low down, flattish on the 
face, rounded on the back; peduncle a foot or more long; raceme 
dense upwards, a foot or more long, 14 in. diam.; central pedicel 
