378 LILIACEE (Baker). [Eriospermum. 
#-li in. long; bracts ovate, minute ; perianth 2 in. long; segments 
oblanceolate, obtuse, white, with a red-brown keel; stamens much 
shorter than the perianth; filaments lanceolate; capsule unknown. 
KataHaRI ReGion: Transvaal; Pretoria Div., Wonderboompoort, Rehmann, 
4468! Bechuanaland ; Bakwena Territory, 3500 ft.,. Holub ! 
30. E. Mackenii (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 266); tuber 
globose, firm in texture, 14 in. diam., with a brown skin and copious, 
long, slender root-fibres; leaves 2-3 to a stem, developed with the 
flowers, oblong-spathulate, sessile, glabrous, reaching 6 in. long, 
1} in. broad at the middle; peduncle a foot or more long; raceme 
moderately dense, 2-4 in. long, above an inch in diameter ; pedicels 
erecto-patent:; lower 4-1 in. long; bracts small, ovate; perianth 
campanulate, 4 in. long; segments oblanceolate-oblong, pale yellow, 
with a broad greenish keel; stamens shorter than the perianth; 
filaments slightly flattened. Bulbine Mackenii, Hook. fil. in Bot. 
Mag. t. 5955. 
Eastern Recion : Transkei; on flats by the Bashee River, Barber, 18! 
Tembuland ; Tabase, near Bazeia, 2000-2500 ft., Baur, 8377! Natal; Inanda, 
Wood, 259! and without precise locality, Mrs. K. Saunders ! 
31. E. Galpini (Schinz. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 416); rootstock 
globose, 1 in. diam., crowned with wiry fibres; leaves 2, con- 
temporary with the flowers, oblong, firm, glabrous, 13-2 in. long; 
petiole sheathing, nearly as long as the blade; peduncle straight, 
slender, 6-8 in. long; flowering raceme lax, 4—5 in. long; pedicels 
erecto-patent, }—-1 in. long; bracts ovate, acute, minute, persistent; 
perianth 3} in. long; segments linear-oblong, yellow; stamens 3 
the length of the perianth; filaments rather flattened; anthers 
oblong, small ; capsule obovoid, as long as the perianth. 
Katanart Region: Transvaal; banks of the Queens River, near Barberton 
2300 ft., Galpin, 1135! 
XVI. ANTHERICUM, Linn. 
Perianth marcescent, not twisted after flowering ; segments distinet, 
patent, subequal, oblong or oblanceolate, closely 8—5-nerved on the 
keel. Stamens 6, hypogynous or adnate to the very base of the 
segments ; filaments filiform or slightly compressed ; anthers linear — 
or oblong, dorsifixed, versatile, dehiseing introrsely. Ovary sessile, 
globose ; ovules several in a cell, superposed ; style subulate, rather — 
declinate ; stigma capitate. Capsule coriaceous, loculicidally 3-valved. 
Seeds triquetrous ; testa black, opaqne ; embryo cylindrical ; albumen 
firm in texture. 
_ Rootstock obscure; root-fibres wiry or cylindrical; radical leaves usually — 
linear or subterete; racemes simple or panicled; pedicels articulated at the 
