412 LILIACEE (Baker). [ Massonia. 
Coast Region: Caledon Div.; near Danger Point. Brought to the Cape 
Town garden by a visitor in 1884, Bolus, 5973! 
11. M. jasminiflora (Burchell ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 
390); bulb small, globose, white; leaves 2, ovate, subacute, thin 
glabrous, not spotted, 2-3 in. long, 1-1? in. broad ; capitulum sessile, 
an inch or more in diameter; outer bracts ovate, acute, much 
imbricated, } in. long; outer pedicels }-3 in. long; perianth white, 
3 in. long; segments lanceolate, reflexing, half as: long as the slender 
cylindrical tube; filaments ligulate, 4 in. long; anthers small, 
oblong, blackish-purple. Podocallis nivea, Salisb. Gen. 17 ? 
Coast Recion: Queenstown Div.; Bowkers Kop, 4000 ft., Galpin, 1817! 
Katanarit Recion: Bechuanaland; Pellat Plains, at Jubiru Fontein near 
Takun, Burchell, Buib No. 7! 
Described from a specimen cultivated by Burchell in his garden at Fulham, 
dried Nov. 1818. Flowered at Kew, Oct. 1894; presented by Rev. J. Miles, who 
received it from the Orange Free State. Flowers scented like a ripe pear, 
according to Burchell, 
12. M. Bowkeri (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 390) ; bulb ovoid, 
1 in. diam ; leaves round-oblong, thin, glabrous, obtuse, 1-14 in. 
long, #—1 in. broad ; capitulum globose, sessile, 15—20-flowered ; outer 
bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 3-2 in. long; outer pedicels very short; 
-perianth white, } in. long; segments lanceolate, reflexing, half as 
long as the stout cylindrical tube, which is a line in diameter; 
filaments fleshy, ligulate, } in. long, connate into a distinct cup; 
anthers small, oblong. 
KataHagi REGION: Griqualand West; Klip Drift, Mrs. Barber, 30! Orange 
Free State, Bowker / 
The flowers are sweetly scented, according to Mrs, Barber. 
13. M. brachypus (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 368) ; bulb ovoid, 
1} in. diam.; leaves oblong, obtuse, thin, glabrous, + ft. long, 
3-33 in. broad ; capitulum shortly peduneled ; outer bracts ovate or 
oblong, acuminate, above an inch long; pedicels very short ; perianth 
white, } in. long; segments lanceolate, longer than the tube, which 
is infundibuliform in the upper, cylindrical in the lower half; 
filaments very short ; anthers linear-oblong, 3 in. long. 
Sours Arica: without locality. 
Described from a plant cultivated at Kew in Feb. 1874. 
14, M. Dregei (Baker) ; bulb globose, $ in. diam. ; leaves round- 
oblong, glabrous, 2 in. long, exclusive of the sheathing base, which 
is half as long as the blade; capitulum globose, under an inch in 
diameter; outer bracts oblong, subacute, 4 in, long; pedicels very 
short; perianth white; tube slender, 3 in. long; segments linear, 
soe than the tube; filaments } in. long; anthers minute, 
oblong. 
: oa Reeton: Clanwilligm Div.; Lange Vallei, under 1000 ft., Drege; 
