366 LILIACE# (Baker). [ Bulbine. 
fleshy, bright green, lanceolate, 6-9 in. long, an inch broad low down, 
tapering gradually to a long point ; peduncle slender, terete, a foot long ; 
raceme lax, 3-1 ft. long, 1-1} in. diam.; pedicels very slender, 
ascending, lower 3 ft. long; bracts minute, deltoid-cuspidate ; 
perianth bright yellow, } in. long ; segments oblong, obtuse, reflexing ; 
capsule not seen. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 448 ; Kunth, 
Enum, iv. 567 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 348. Anthericum 
alooides, Linn. Sp. Plant, 311; Miller, Dict. edit. 6, No.5; Thunb. 
Prodr, 62; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 819; Red. Lil. t. 283 ; Bot. Mag. 
t. 1817; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 996. Bulbine acaulis, Linn, Hort. 
Clif. 123. B. Zeyheri, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 347. (Dill. 
Hort. Elth, t. 232, fig. 299.) 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 4219! Pappe! and cultivated 
specimens ! 
Coast Reeton: Clanwilliam Div.; between Oliphants River and Kanagas 
Berg, Zeyher, 4222! Mountains near Cape Town, Thunberg ! Swellendam Div. ; 
Hessequas Klooi, Zeyher, 4224! 
23. B. latifolia (Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 447) ; acau- 
lescent, perennial, cespitose, with a stout rootstock of firm texture ; 
leaves 12-20 in a dense rosette, oblong-lanceolate, thick, fleshy, 
glaucescent on the rounded back, a foot long, 2-3 in. broad low 
down, tapering gradually to a point, the outer flat, the inner concave 
on the face; peduncle above a foot long, ancipitous towards the 
base ; raceme dense upwards, a foot long, 14 in. diam.; pedicels 
3-3 in. long; bracts small, deltoid-cuspidate ; perianth bright yellow, 
3 in. long; stamens more than half as long as the perianth-segments. 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 567; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xv. 349. 
Anthericum latifolium, Linn. fil. Suppl. 202; Thunb. Prodr. 63; 
fl, Cap. edit. Schult. 323; Jacq. Coll. iii, 249 ; Ic. ii. 17, t. 408. 
B. macrophylla, Salm-Dyck, Hort. Dyck. 333; Kunth, Enum. iv. 568. 
B. Mettinghii, Tenore, Syll. 563 ? 
Crnrtrat Region: Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1894! 
24. B. natalensis (Baker) ; acaulescent, perennial, with a tuberous 
rootstock of firm texture, nearly an inch in diameter ; leaves numerous, 
thin, ascending, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 8-9 in. long, 1}-1 in. 
broad low down ; peduncle 3-1 ft. long ; raceme moderately dense, 
finally 3 ft. long; pedicels ascending, lower 3—$ in. long; bracts 
lanceolate from a deltoid base, 3 in. long, protruded beyond the buds ; 
perianth % in. long; segments bright yellow with a broad green 
keel; stamens much shorter than the perianth-segments; capsule 
subglobose, 4 in. diam, 
Eastern Recion: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 553! 
25. B. (?) brunsvigiefolia (Baker) ; leaf thin, lorate-oblong, 6-8 in. 
long, 2 in. broad, subobtuse, minutely cuspidate, glabrous on the 
surface, densely persistent, shortly ciliated on the edge ; peduncle 
stout, a foot long; flowers many in a lax raceme 3-4 in. long; 
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