374 LILIACEH (Baker). [Eriospermum, 
peduncle slender, terete, a foot or more long ; raceme lax, a foot long, 
3-4 in. diam. ; pedicels spreading or ascending, 13-2 in. long; bracts 
deltoid, minute; perianth dull pale yellow, { in. long; segments 
oblong, acute, keeled with green; stamens a little shorter than the 
perianth ; filaments lanceolate; seeds brown, clothed with white 
hairs. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 504; Kunth, Emnm. iv. 
653; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 263. 
Sovurn ArrRica: without locality. 
Known to me only from Jacquin’s figure. 
15. E. corymbosum (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 266); tuber 
small, globose, crowned with a dense ring of flexuose fine brown 
fibres 1-12 in. long; leaf solitary, cordate-ovate, 4 in. long, glabrous, 
with a petiole clasping the stem 1-14 in. long; peduncle 1-2 in. 
long ; raceme dense, corymbose, 6-10-flowered; pedicels 3—-j in. 
long ; bracts very minute, deltoid; perianth campanulate, + in. long; 
segments oblong, obtuse, white with a greenish-brown keel ; stamens 
shorter than the perianth ; filaments lanceolate ; capsule and seeds 
unknown. 
Katanart ReGion: Griqualand West; Dutoits Pan, Tuck! MacOwan, 
1969! Bechuanaland ; Batlapin Territory, Holub! 
_ 16. E. Bellendeni (Swect, Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 529, name only) ; 
tuber large, globose, with many rounded lobes, a brown skin and 
copious wiry root-fibres ; leaf solitary, produced after the flowers, 
cordate-ovate, glabrous, shortly petioled, 3-4 in. long; peduncle 
stiffly erect, a foot long; raceme dense, cylindrical, 8-4 in. long in 
flower, under an inch in diameter ; pedicels ascending, }—} in. long ; — 
bracts very minute; perianth campanulate, 1 in. long; segments 
_ oblong, obtuse, with a broad green or brown keel ; stamens shorter 
than the perianth; filaments lanceolate; capsule turbinate, { in. 
diam. ; hair of seeds soft, brownish. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. 
xv. 265. £. latifolium, Ker in But. Mag. t. 1382, non Jacq. 
Sourn Arrrca: without locality, Musson / 
Coast Region: Uitenh . ; ; or 
Zeyher, 4281! itenhage, Ecklon and Zeyher, 739! near Port Elizabeth, 
Centra REGIon : Cave Mountain, near Graaff Reinet, 4400 ft., Boius, 517! 
near Somerset East, 2500 ft., MacOwan, 1888 ! 
Katanari ReGion: Griqualand West; between Griqua Town and Witte 
Gate rte ie 1995! ‘Transvaal; Lomatie Valley, near Barberton, 4000 ft., 
KasTERN Reeion: Pondoland, Bachmann, 278 ! 
17. E. Cooperi (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 265); tuber un- 
known ; leaf developed after the flowers, solitary, cordate-ovate, with 
a long petiole; peduncle above a foot long ; raceme short and very 
dense in the flowering stage; lower pedicels }—1 in. long; bracts 
lanceolate-deltoid, nearly as long as the pedicels ; perianth campanu- 
late, § in. long ; segments oblong, obtuse; outer all brown ; inner 
white with a brown keel; stamens shorter than the perianth ; 
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