408 LILIAcEx (Baker). [ Allium. 
dale Div.; near Zoetmelks River, Burchell, 6626! Queenstown Div.; Storm 
Berg Range, 5000-6000 ft., Drége, 8660a ! 
CENTRAL REGION : mountains near Graaff Reinet, 3200 ft., Bolus, 648 ! 
Westxen Rre@ion: Little Namaqualand, Scully, 215! 
KaLaHARI Region: Orange Free State, Caledon River, Burke ! 
This seems to me quite distinct from the European A. Scorodoprasum, Linn., 
with which Regel (Monogr. All. 42) unites it. Drége’s 8661, from the Zwartkops 
River, referred by Kunth to A. Scorodo;rasum, I have not seen. Burchell’s 
1547 from Carnarvon has the robust habit, large bulb, and broad leaves of 
A. Ampeloprasum, but the specimens are in young bud only. 
XXIII. MASSONIA, Thunb. 
Perianth gamophyllous; tube eylindrical; segments subequal, 
linear or lanceolate, spreading or reflexed. Stamens 6, inserted in a 
single row at the throat of the perianth-tube ; filaments united in a 
cup at the base ; anthers oblong, dorsifixed, dehiscing introrsely. 
Ovary sessile, 3-celled ; ovules many in a cell, superposed ; style 
cylindrical; stigma capitate. Capsule obovate-triquetrous, mem- 
branous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds globose; testa black, 
membranous ; albumen moderately firm in texture. 
Rootstock a tunicated bulb; leaves two, broad, opposite ; flowers in a sessile 
or nearly sessile globose capitulum, surrounded by a number of ovate or oblong, 
imbricated, membranous bracts; pedicels short, not articulated, subtended by 
smuller bracts; perianth usually white. 
Disteis. Endemic. 
Leaves bristly on the surface : 
Filaments very short... as ae ... (1) tenella. 
Filaments as long as or longer than the 
perianth-segments : 
Leaves lanceolate ... a ‘as «.. (2) setulosa, 
Leaves oblong iss nee ski ... (8) echinata, 
Leaves round : 
Perianth $ in. long... arp ... (4) hirsuta. 
Perianth an inch long ae .» (5) muricata. 
Leaves rough with pustules over thie face: 
Leaves lanceolate... ase . 
Leaves small, obovate : 
Perianth-segnients as long as the tube ... (7) Schlechtendahlii. 
Perianth-segments half as long as the tube (8) latebrosa. 
(6) pauciflora, 
Leaves large, round-oblong : 
Peria th aninchlong =... ....... (9): pustulata. 
Perianth 4 in. long = ss ase (10) longapes. 
Leaves glabrous on the face : 
Filaments not above. j,—} in. long : 
Authers small ; 
Filaments free to the base... ...__ (11) jasminifiora. 
Filaments joined in a cup at the base (12) Bowkeri. 
Antherslarge =, Sw... (18) brachypus. 
Filaments about # in. long: 
: Perianth-segments linear: _ 
Perianth-segments not as long as the 
tube ... (14) Dregei. 
Perianth-segments as long as the tube (15) Huttoni. 
