Eriospermum. | LILIACEE (Baker). 377 
25. E. aleicorne (Baker); tuber and flowers unknown; leaf 
with a petiole 2-3 in. long and an orbicular, coriaceous, glabrous 
blade } in. long and broad, from the face of which issues a dense 
mass of linear processes about 3 in. long, with 1-2 ascending linear 
pinne from the middle of the margin. 
Centrat Reaion : Graaff Reinet Div.; near Zuurpoort, on the Sneeuw Berg 
Range, 5000 ft., Bolus, 838 ! 
26. E. spirale (Berg. in Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 
1696); tuber globose, the size of a large pea, with grey skin and 
filiform root-fibres ; leaf linear, known only in a rudimentary state ; 
peduncle flexuose, 2-3 in. long; raceme corymbose, 2—8-flowered ; 
lower pedicels above 4 in. long; bracts minute, ovate; perianth 
campanulate, 2 in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, outer purplish ; 
inner white with a purplish keel; stamens included; filaments 
lanceolate ; capsule globose ; hair of seeds brownish. Kunth, Enum. 
iv. 654. Bolus in Hook, Ic. t. 2260. Anthericum spirale, Linn. 
Mant. alt. 224; Roem, et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 481. 
Soutu Arrica; without locality, Bergius ! 
Coast Reeion: Cape Flats; Kenilworth Racecourse, Schlechter, 600! near 
Wynberg, MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr. Afr., 1388! 
27, E. confertum (Baker in Engl. Jahrb. xv., Beibl. 35, 5); 
tuber globose, }-? in. diam.; leaves hysteranthous, unknown ; 
peduncle very slender, more or less spirally twisted, 2-3 in. long ; 
tlowers 2-8, corymbose; pedicels ascending, the lower an inch or 
more long; bracts ovate, minute; perianth campanulate, } in. long; 
segments oblong, the outer all green, the inner white, with a 
distinct green keel ; stamens nearly or quite as long as the perianth ; 
filaments linear ; style short. 
Coast ReGion: Malmesbury Div. ; near Hopefield, Bachmann, 1817! 1818! 
28. EF. ornithogaloides (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, xv. 266); 
tuber smal], irregular in form, horizontal, } in. thick, with a brown 
skin ; leaf unknown; peduncle very slender, stramineous, 4-5 in. 
long; raceme dense, corymbose, 3—4-flowered ; pedicels $-i in. 
long; bracts small, ovate, very convex on the back ;-perianth cam- 
panulate, + in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, white with a very 
distinct brown keel; stamens half as long as the perianth ; filaments 
lanceolate ; capsule and seeds not known. 
Eastern Reeion: Natal; Fields Hill, Pinetown, 1500 ft., Sanderson, 905! 
29. E. tenellum (Baker); ‘tuber globose, under } in. diam., 
densely coated with fine matted brown fibres ; leaves 2-3 to a stem, 
contemporary with the flowers, lanceolate, rigidly coriaceous, 
glabrous, about an inch long, }—-} in. broad, with a petiole nearly as 
long as the blade; peduncle very slender, 3-4 in. long ; racemes 
very lax, 1-2 in. long, 4-8-flowered ; pedicels ascending; lower 
