Massonia. } LILIACEZ (Baker). 413 
15, M. Huttoni (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xi. 390); bulb 
ovoid, 1 in. diam.; leaves round-ovate, thin in texture, glabrous, 
1$-2 in. long, 1-1} in. broad, subobtuse, narrowed into a petiole, 
which sheaths the peduncle, which is 3-2 in. long; capitulum 15-20- 
flowered ; outer bracts broad ovate, acute, 3—§ in. long ; outer pedicels 
3-7 in. long ; perianth whitish, 4 in. long; segments linear, reflexing, - 
as long as the tube; filaments filiform, } in. long, free down to the 
base ; anthers small. 
Coast Region: Albany, Hutton! 
No specimen at Kew. 
16. M. versicolor (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1876, 184); bulb ovoid, 
under an inch in diameter ; leaves ovate or roundish, acute, glabrous, 
13-2 in. long and broad; capitulum dense, sessile, globose, 1 in. 
diam. ; outer bracts ovate, acute, much imbricated, 3 in. long; outer 
pedicels very short; perianth white; tube cylindrical, } in. long ; 
segments lanceolate, reflexing, shorter than the tube; filaments 
cylindrical, 3 in. long; anthers oblong, minute. 
CENTRAL ReGiIon: Somerset Div.; banks of the Little Fish River, 2500 ft., 
MacOwan, 2178! 
17. M. amygdalina (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1889, vi. 715) ; 
habit of M. versicolor ; leaves 2, ovate, acute, glabrous, decumbent, 
about 2 in. long by an inch broad ; flowers white, smelling strongly 
of almonds, forming a dense, globose, sessile, central head 1 in. diam. ; 
pedicels short ; perianth-tube cylindrical, above } in. long; segments 
lanceolate, reflexing, two-thirds the length of the tube; filaments 
erect, slightly connate at the base, } in. long. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality. : 
Imported by Mr. Jas. O’Brien; flowered by Sir C. W. Strickland in Dec. 
1889, 
18. M. Greenii (Baker) ; bulb ovoid, } in. diam., with a long 
neck ; leaves 2, ovate, glabrous, 3-4 in. long, 2 in. broad ; capitulum 
dense, globose; outer bracts ovate, } in. long; pedicels short; 
perianth tube above 4 in. long ; segments lanceolate, half as long as 
the tube; stamens as long as the segments. 
Katanari Reaton: Griqualand West ; stony places near Kimberley, MacOwan, 
2842! 
19. M. calvata (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, 321); bulb ovoid or 
globose, under an inch in diameter; leaves ovate or orbicular, thin, 
obtuse, glabrous when mature, slightly tuberculato-hispid ‘when 
young, 2-3 in. long and broad; capitulum dense, sessile, 1 in, 
diam. ; outer bracts ovate, acute, much imbricated, under 3 in. long; 
pedicels very short; perianth white, 5 in. long; segments lanceolate, 
as long as the tube; filaments as lung as the perianth-segments ; 
anthers oblong, minute. 
CEyrraL ReGion : mountains near Graaff Reinet, 4400-5500 ft., Bolus, 749! 
