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872 LILIACExX (Baker). [ Briospermum. 
Hort. Kew. edit. 2, ii. 256; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 503 ; 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 651; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 264. 
SoutH AFrica: without locality. 
A specimen (Bolus, 6610!) from a tuber collected in Little Namaqualand, and 
cultivated by Mr. Bolus in his garden near Cape Town in 1885, appears to be 
this species, but the blade of the leaf is only 2} inches long and 14 lines broad, 
and the perianth-segments 2 inch long, 
8. E. luteo-rubrum (Baker) ; rootstock not seen; leaf solitary, 
lanceolate, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, shortly petioled, 3—4 in. long, 
2 in. broad below the middle, narrowed gradually to the base and 
apex; peduncle flexuose, 4-5 in. long; raceme lax, subcorymbose, 
45 in. long; pedicels ascending ; lower 2-3 in. long, upper 4 in. ; 
bracts minute, deltoid; perianth bright yellow, tinged with red, 
3-1 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, yellow keeled with reddish- 
brown; stamens half as long as the perianth; filaments slightly 
flattened. 
Katanart Region : Transvaal ; summit of Saddleback Range, near Barberton, 
on stony ground, 4500-5000 ft., Galpin, 528! 
EastTgexn ReGIon: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1346! 
9. E. Burchellii (Baker) ; tuber oblong; leaf solitary, produced 
after the flowers, petiolate, 5-6 in. long, 8-10 lines broad, lanceolate, 
tapering to an acute apex and cuneately narrowed below the middle 
to an acute base, rigidly coriaceous, many nerved, glabrous ; peduncle 
3 in. long; raceme lax, corymbose, 5-6 in. long, 4 in. broad ; lower 
pedicels arcuate, ascending, 4~5 in. long; bracts deltoid, minute ; 
perianth campanulate, {—-} in. long; segments oblanceolate, obtuse, 
white keeled with brown; stamens shorter than the perianth ; fila- 
ments lanceolate ; capsule turbinate, } in. long; hair of the seeds 
soft, white. 
Katanart Rreton : Griqualand West ; near the Asbestos Mountains, between 
Witte Water and Riet Fontein, Burchell, 2008! ‘Trausvaal; Mooi River 
Burke! Magalies Berg, Burke! near Johannesburg, Adlam, 4! 
Eastern Reaion ; Natal, near Ladysmith, 4000 ft., Wood, 4239! 
10. E, microphyllum (Baker); tuber small, oblong; leaves 
hysteranthous, long-petioled, cordate-ovate, 4 in. long, minutely 
ciliated ; peduncle-slender, flexuose, glabrous, 3-4 in. long; raceme 
lax, 1-2 in. long; pedicels ascending, the lower } in. long; bracts 
minute, ovate, dark brown; perianth 1 in. long; segments oblong, 
_ white, with a dark brown keel; stamens much shorter than the 
perianth ; style short, 
Eastern REGION: ; 
Wood. ts041 ON: Natal; Weenen County, South Downs, 5000-6000 ft., 
11, E. brevipes (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 263); tuber as 
large as a potato, with a whitish epidermis; leaves solitary, produced — 
after the flowers, cordate-ovate, bright green, 3-4 in. long, glabrous 
on the face when mature, hairy on the back ; petiole longer than the 
