376 LILIAcEz (Baker). [ Eriospermum. 
the flowers, cordate-ovate, shortly petioled, coriaceous, pilose, with a 
branched process 3-4 in. long issuing from its base, bearing numerous 
erecto-patent, compound, or simple linear pinne; peduncle short, 
pilose; raceme 6-—7-flowered; pedicels very short; bracts minute, 
ovate; perianth } in. long; segments elliptic, obtuse, white keeled 
with green; stamens about half as long as the perianth; filaments 
linear, Kunth, Enum. iv. 654; Baler in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 
267. Ornithogalum paradoxum, Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 81, t. 1. 
Thaumaza paradoxa, Salish. Gen. 15. 
South AFRica: without locality. 
Known to me only from Jacquin’s figure. 
22. E. bowieanum (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 267); tuber 
large, oblong; leaf solitary, shortly petioled, cordate-ovate, glabrous, 
2 in. long, the face covered with clavate, erect, glabrous processes 
<-i in. long; peduncle 13-2 in. long; raceme dense, subspicate, 
5—6-flowered; perianth 31-1 in. long; segments oblong, white 
keeled with purple; stamens shorter than the perianth ; filaments 
lanceolate. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality. 
; ee from a drawing of a plant received from Bowie, cultivated at Kew 
in : 
23. E. proliferum (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 267); tuber 
large, depresso-globuse, with a brown skin; leaf produced after the 
flowers, solitary, obcordate, glabrous, } in. long, furnished on the 
face with numerous, slender, cylindrical, glabrous processes two or 
three times as long as the blade; peduncle 3-4 in. long; raceme 
lax, 2-3 in. long, 9-12-flowered; pedicels ascending, }—{ in. long ; 
bracts minute, deltoid; perianth campanulate, 3 in. long; segments 
oblong, obtuse, white keeled with green ; stamens much shorter than 
the perianth ; filaments lanceolate. Z. folioliferum, Gawl. in Bot. 
Reg. t. 795; Kunth, Enum. iv. 654, non Andrews. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality. 
There is a drawing at Kew of a plant gathered by Bowie in 1821. 
24. E. folioliferum (Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 521); tuber large, oblong; 
leaf contemporary with the flowers, solitary, ovate, acute, rounded at 
the base, 2-23 in. long, purple on the back, furnished on the face 
with numerous, erect, simple, cylindrical, strigose processes {-j in. 
long; peduncle 6-15 in. long; raceme lax, 6-9-flowered ; pedicels 
erecto-patent, {-$ in. long; bracts minute, deltoid; perianth cam- 
panulate, % in. long; segments oblong, yellowish-white keeled 
with green ; stamens shorter than the perianth ; filaments linear. 
Phylloglottis foliolifera, Salish. Gen. 15. 
Western Recion : Little Namaqualand ; Kasteel Poort, near Klip Fontein, 
0A Bolus, 6608! and MucOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm, Aust. Afr., 
