390 LILIACEEZ (Baker). _ [Anthericum. 
34. A. Macowani (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 309); root- 
fibres slender, wiry; old leaves breaking up into a dense mass of 
rigid bristles ; leaves subterete, rigid in texture, }-1 ft. long, $ lin. 
diam., glabrous, sometimes flexuose ; peduncle slender, wiry, 3-9 
in. long; racemes lax, usually simple, 3-6 in. long ; bracts minute, - 
deltoid or the lowest lanceolate ; lower pedicels 3—} in. long, erecto- 
patent ; perianth } in. long; segments oblanceolate, with a closely 
3-nerved green keel; stamens rather shorter than the perianth ; 
filaments papillose ; capsule globose, 4 in, diam. 
Coast Region: Albany Div.; Grahamstown, MacOwan, 64! 
CentRaL Reoion: Graaff Reinet Div.; Karoo near Graaff Reinet, 2600 ft., 
eet 740! Koudevelds Berg, 4000 ft., Bolus, 2592! Prince Albert Div., Drége, 
578b ! 
Katanart Reeion: Basutoland, Cooper, 747! 3298! Bechuanaland, Chooi 
Desert, Burchell, 2342! Transvaal; Matehe Valley, Hulud ! 
Eastern Reaion : Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 753! 
_ $5, A. subcontortum (Baker) ; whole plant under a foot long; 
root crowned with copious fibres ; leaves many, narrowly linear, hairy, 
rather flexuose, 4-6 in. long, ~; in. diam.; panicle of several lax 
racemes ; pedicels articulated at the apex, lower } in. long ; bracts 
minute; perianth } in. long; segments linear-oblong, white with a 
brown keel ; stamens shorter than the perianth ; anthers small. 
Eastern ReGion: Griqualand East, 4300 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. 
Norm., 1206! 
36. A. pubescens (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 309); root- 
fibres slender ; relics of old leaves breaking up into bristles; radical 
leaves subterete, 3-1 ft. long, 3,—1 in. broad, dark green, not rigid in 
texture, clothed with fine, soft, spreading, deciduous hairs ; peduncle 
3-6 in. long, ancipitous, softly pilose ; racemes 1-2, the end one 
very lax, 4—6 in. long ; bracts minute, deltoid or lanceolate-deltoid ; 
pedicels solitary, lower 4-} in. long; perianth } in. long; segments 
oblanceolate, with a closely 3-nerved green keel ; stamens nearly as 
long as the perianth; filaments muricated; capsule globose, } in. 
diam. A. jacguinianum, Schult. fil. var. affinis, Baker in Journ. 
Bae Soc. xv. 308, partly. Trachyandra affinis, Kunth, Enum. 
. 579, 
Coast Rxeron: Albany Div. ; Fish River Heights, Hutton! 
CrnrTrat ReGion : near Somerset East, 2200 ft., MacOwan, 1589! 
Katanari Reaion: Orange Free State, Cooper, 3308! 
37. A. longepedunculatum (Steud. in Roem. et Schultes, Syst. 
Veg. vil. 457, 1692); root-tibres thick and fleshy; crown not 
bristly ; leaves subterete, glabrous, not rigid, 3-9 in. long, } in. 
diam. ; peduncle slender, 1-2 in. long; racemes 1-3, very lax, 
1-2 in. long ; bracts ovate-cuspidate, the lower 3-4 in. long; pedi- 
cels solitary, the lower 3-1 in. long ; perianth } in. long; segments 
oblanceolate, with a distinct, closely 3-nerved brown keel; stamens 
much shorter than the perianth; filaments muricated; capsule 
globose, 3 in.diam, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1872, 138; Journ. Linn. 
