418 LiLiacez (Baker). [Daubenya. 
in. diam.; outer bracts oblong, membranous, greenish, { in. long, 
much shorter than the flowers; pedicels very short ; flowers bright 
red, outer 2-21 in. long, with the oblong-spathulate outer segments 
of the lower lip 4-2 in. long, and the three inner segments minute 
linear uniseriate or biseriate ; filaments {,-} in. long; inner flowers 
with all the segments linear, 31 in. long. Kunth, Enum. iv. 300; 
Baker in Journ. Linn Soe. xi. 395. 
SoutH A¥Rica: without locality. 
Figured from a specimen in the garden of Mr. R. Barchard at Wandsworth in 
1839. I have seen it only in the herbarium of Mr, Wilson Saunders. 
XXV. WHITEHEADIA, Harv. 
Perianth persistent, with a very short tube and 6 subequal, 
spreading, 3-5-nerved segments. Stamens 6, inserted at the throat 
of the perianth-tube; filaments erect, connate at the base in @ 
nectariferous cup; anthers linear-oblong, dorsifixed, versatile, 
dehiseing introrsely. Ovary sessile, globose, trilocular; ovules many, 
superposed; style subulate; stigma capitate. Capsule subglobose, 
acutely triquetrous. membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds 
lagenzeform ; testa black, shining; albumen cartilaginous. 
Distais. Endemic. 
1. W. latifolia (Harvey, Cape Gen. edit, 2, 396); bulb globose, 
13-2 in. diam.; tunics brown, membranous; leaves 2, ’ 
spreading, round-oblong, subacute or emarginate, 6-8 in. long; 
peduncle subclavate, > ft. long ; raceme dense, subspicate, 3-6 in. 
long; bracts round-cuspidate, 1-1} in. long, the upper empty; 
perianth greenish, § in. long; capsule $ in. long. W. bifolia, 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii, 226. Eucomis bifolia, Jacq. 
Collect. iv. 215; Ic. ii. 21, t. 449; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 92; Bot. 
Mag. t. 840; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 624; Kunth, Enum. 
iv. 308. Basilea bifolia, Poir. Encye. Suppl. i. 591. Melanthium 
massoniafolium, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 368. 
Western ReGion: Little Namaqualand, Whitehead! among rocks near 
Klip Fontein, 3000 ft., Bolus, 6565 ! : . RS ' 
XXVI. POLYXENA, Kunth. 
Perianth gamophyllous, persistent ; tube cylindrical or infundi- 
buliform ; segments equal, lanceolate, shorter than the tube. 
Stamens 6, biseriate or uniseriate at the throat of the tube; filaments — 
filiform, distinet or connate at the base; anthers small, oblong, 
dorsifixed, versatile, dehiscing introrsely. Ovary sessile, ampulleform, 
trilocular ; ovules many, superposed ; style subulate ; stigma capitate. 
Capsule membranous, loculicidally 3-valved, Seedy small, globose ; 
testa black, shining ; albumen firm in texture. 
Rootstock a tunicated bulb ; <1 
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