Eriospermum. } _ LILIacez (Baker). 875 
filaments lanceolate ; capsule obconic, } in. long; hair of the seeds 
brownish white. 
KAtauart Rearon: Basutoland, Cooper, 3307! 3310! 
Eastern ReGion : Natal; ina valley near Van Reenens Pass, 5000-6000 ft., 
Wood, 4519 ! 
18. E. thyrsoideum (Baker); tuber globose, 2-3 in. diam., very 
firm in texture; leaf produced after the flowers, solitary, cordate- 
ovate, glabrous, 3-4 in. long, shortly petioled ; peduncle slender, 
flexuose, 5-6 in. long; raceme lax, thyrsoid, 2-3 in. long; bracts 
minute, deltoid, white with a brown keel; pedicels arcuate, ascending ; 
lower above an inch long, upper } in.; perianth campanulate, 2 in. 
long ; segments oblong, obtuse, brownish; stamens shorter than the 
perianth ; filaments lanceolate. 
CENTRAL ReGion: Stony ground on Bruintjes Hoogte, 3500 ft., MacOwan, 
1863! 2198! 
19. E. albucoides (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 265); tuber 
oblong, an inch in diameter, with a grey skin; leaf. solitary, de- 
veloped after the flowers, cordate-ovate, glabrous, 2 in. long and 
broad, shortly petioled; peduncle very slender, 6-9 in. long; 
raceme lax, 2—3 in. long, 1-1} in. diam. ; pedicels ascending, arcuate, 
$-] in. long; bracts deltoid, very minute; perianth campanulate, 
4 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, yellowish-white with a green 
keel ; inner obovate, cucullate at the apex; stamens much shorter 
than the perianth ; filaments lanceolate; style as long as the globose 
ovary. 
Sours Arrica: without locality, Cooper ! ? 
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in 1873, received from Mr. 
Cooper. 
20. E. latifolium (Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 73; Ic. ii, 18, t. 420); 
tuber large, subglobose, with brown skin, reddish flesh and copious 
wiry root-fibres ; leaf solitary, produced after the flowers, cordate- 
ovate, glabrous, 3-4 in. long, shortly petioled; peduncle slender, 
terete, a foot or more long; raceme lax, 3—1 ft. long; lower pedicels 
arcuate, 14-2 in. long; bracts very minute, deltoid; perianth cam- 
panulate, + in. long; segments oblong, acute, white keeled with 
claret-brown; stamens } the length of the perianth; filaments 
lanceolate; capsule globose, } in. diam. ; hair of seeds brownish- 
white. Thunb. Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 317; Ait. Hort. Kew. edit. 2, 
ii. 256; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 502; Kunth, Enum, iv. 
652; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 285. Ornithogalum capense, 
Linn. Sp. Plant. 308 ;. Thunb. Prodr. 62. (Commel. Hort, Amstel. ii. 
t. 88; Breyn. Cent. t.41). 
N:§ Div. ; between Jonkers Valley and Stellenbosch, 
fnarcheil, 8586 1 Delete Die? Lange Kloof, Burchell, 4941! 5017! 
Uitenhage, Ecklon and Zeyher, 537! 
21. E. paradoxum (Gawl. in Bot. Mag. sub t. 1382); tuber large, 
irregular in shape, with a brown skin; leaf solitary, produced after 
