eae 
Eriospermum. | LILIACEZ (Baker). 373 
blade; peduncle slender, 1-2 ft. long; raceme dense, cylindrical, 
6-9 in. long, under an inch in diameter; pedicels 1} in. long, 
erecto-patent; bracts lanceolate-deltoid; perianth campanulate, 
% in. long; segments oblong, white keeled with green; stamens 
shorter than the perianth; filaments white, lanceolate; capsule 
globose, 3 in. diam. ; hair of seeds brownish white. Gard. Chron. 
1880, xiv. 231. 
Coast Reeion: Humansdorp Div.; between Galgebosch and Melk River, 
Burchell, 4779! Algoa Bay, Cooper! British Kaffraria; sand-flats near the 
Bushman River, 500 ft., Bawr, 1029! and without precise locality, Mrs. Hutton. 
CENTRAL Reeion: Somerset Div., Bowker / 
12. E. pubescens (Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 8, t. 265); tuber 
large, oblong, with a brown skin, many rounded lobes and copious 
wiry root-fibres ; leaf solitary, produced after the flowers, cordate- 
ovate, hairy, 3-4 in. long, with a channelled petiole as long as the 
blade; peduncle slender, stiffly erect, 4-1 ft. long; raceme lax, 
finally 4-6 in. long; arcuate pedicels 4-1 in. long; bracts minute, 
deltoid; perianth campanulate, 1-} in. long; segments oblong, 
obtuse, white, keeled with green ; stamens shorter than the perianth ; 
filaments lanceolate ; seeds densely clothed with white hairs. Lindl. 
Bot. Reg. t. 578; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 504; Kunth, 
Enum. iv. 653; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe, xv. 263. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Zeyher, 4279! 
Coast Reaion: Cape Flats, below 100-ft., Bolus, 3916! 
CENTRAL KeGIon: Somerset Div.; summit of Bosch Berg, 4500 ft., MacOwan, 
1822! 
EasTERN Reaion: Tembuland; Bazeia Mountains, 3500-4000 ft., Baur, 
496! 
13. E. natalense (Baker) ; rootstock a large tuber; leaf solitary, 
produced after the flowers; blade cordate-ovate, membranous, hairy, 
3-4 in. long and broad ; petiole rather longer than the blade, densely 
pilose; peduncle a foot or more long; raceme lax, 3 ft. long in 
flower, a foot in fruit, 2 in. diam.; pedicels erecto-patent, an inch 
long ; bracts minute, deltoid; perianth broadly campanulate, 3 in. 
long; segments broad, oblong, obtuse ; outer all brown; inner white 
with a brown keel; stamens shorter than the perianth; filaments 
lanceolate ; capsule globose, } in. diam.; seeds densely coated with 
whitish-brown hairs. 
EastERN ReGion: Pondoland; near Fort Donald, 3500 ft., Tyson, 1667! 
Griqualand Exst; near Clydesdale, MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm, Aust. 
Afr., 1205! Natal; around Durban, 120 ft., Wood, 107! MacOwan, Herb. 
Aust. Afr., 1559! Umgeni, Rehmann, 8562! Inanda, Wood, 256! 
Closely allied to E. lanuginosum, Jacq. 
14. E. lanuginosum (Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. iii. 7, t. 264); tuber the 
size of a large potato, grey on the outside, purplish within, with 
copious wiry root-fibres; leaf solitary, produced after the flower, 
cordate-ovate, hairy, 3-4 in. long, with a short channelled petiole ; 
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