Eriospermwmn. | LILIACEz (Baker), 371 
@ in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, white, with a dark brown keel ; 
stamens half as long as the perianth ; style short. 
me Re@ion: Griqualand East; Vaal Bank, Haygarth in Herb. Wood, 
4. E. villosum (Baker); petiole invested by the thick outer 
tunics of the corm to a length of 4 inches; blade ligulate, obtuse, 
4-5 in. long, }~3 in. broad, narrowed to the base, moderately firm, 
densely hairy on both surfaces; flowers not seen. 
WesTERN Reaion: Little Namaqualand; Kasteel Poort near Klip Fontein, 
3000 ft., Bolus, 6609 ! 
5. E. parvifolium (Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 74; Ic. t. 422); tuber 
small, depresso-globose, with brown skin and white flesh; leaf 
solitary, produced after the flowers, oblong-lanceolate, 2 in. long, 
3 in. broad, shortly petioled ; peduncle slender, 3-1 ft. long; raceme 
lax, reaching 3 ft. long, 13-2 in. broad; pedicels ascending or 
spreading ; lower 3-1 in. long; bracts minute, deltoid; perianth 
campanulate, + in. long ; segments oblong, obtuse, white, with a 
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green or brown keel ; stamens as long as the perianth; filaments 
scarcely flattened ; capsule turbinate; hair of seeds brownish-white. 
Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 504; Kunth, Enum. iv. 650; 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 264. E. dregeanum, Presi. Bemerk. 
113, 
Coast REGION: Paarl Div. ; Klein Drakenstein Mts., below 1000 ft., Drége ! 
Stellenbosch Diy. ; between Stellenbosch and Bottelary Hill, Burchell, 8343! 
Uniondale Div.; Lange Kloof, between Wagenbooms River and Apies River, 
Burchell, 4943! : 
6. E. porphyrovalve (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1891, 71) ; tuber glo- 
bose, under 4 in, diam., crowned with fine brown fibres; leaf solitary, 
small, lanceolate, rigidly coriaceous, crisped, glabrous, not seen fully 
developed ; peduncles very slender, 2~3-nate, flexuose, 2-3 in. long ; 
racemes lax, 1-2 in. long ; pedicels ascending, lower 1-1} in., upper 
3-1 in. long; bracts minute, ovate; perianth 3 in. long; segments 
oblanceolate, obtuse, white with a red-brown keel ; stamens shorter 
than the perianth; filaments lanceolate; capsule obovoid-cuneate, 
2 in. long; valves dark purple. __ 
Katanari Region: Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5765! Lake Chrissie, 
Elliot, 1602 ! 
7. E. lancewfolium (Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 72; Ic. t. 421); tuber 
large, with a brown skin, red flesh, and copious wiry root-fibres ; 
leaf solitary, produced after the flowers, oblong-lanceolate, 5-6 in. 
long, 1-11 in. broad, shortly petioled, glabrous ; peduncle terete, 
above a foot long; raceme lax, } ft. long, 1-1} in. diam. ; pedicels 
sometimes an inch long; bracts deltoid, minute ; perianth campanu- 
late, + in. long; segments oblong, acute, white with a claret-brown 
kee]; stamens shorter than the perianth; filaments lanceolate ; 
capsule turbinate ; hair of seeds brownish. Red. Lil. t. 394; Ait. 
