420 Littacez (Baker). [ Polyzena. 
3. P. Burchellii (Baker); bulb globose, above an inch in dia- 
meter; root-fibres very numerous; leaves 2, thin, erect, glabrous, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, } ft. long, 13-2 in. broad above the 
middle, narrowed suddenly to a short sheathing base; peduncle 
an inch long; corymb dense, few-flowered; pedicels very 
short ; outer bracts lanceolate, 4 in. long; perianth-tube whitish, 
cylindrical, 4 in. long; segments lanceolate, nearly as long as the 
tube; filaments uniserial, bright red, twice as Jong as the perianth- 
segments; anthers bright yellow, oblong. Massonia Burchellit, 
Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. xi. 393. 
Sours Arrica: without locality, Burchell! 
4. P. rugulosa (Baker); bulb oblong; leaves 2, oblong, obtuse, 
narrowed to a clasping base, scarcely overtopping the flowers; 
pedunele short; flowers densely corymbose; pedicels very short, 
bracteate ; perianth-tube cylindrical, } in. long; segments lanceo- 
late, half as long as the tube ; filaments rose-red, uniseriate, distinct, 
longer than the perianth-segments ; anthers oblong, yellow. Jdassonia 
rugulosa, Lichtenst. ex Kunth, Enum. iv. 299. 
Sours Arica: without locality, Lichtenstein, in Berlin Herbarium. 
5. P. marginata (Baker); bulb ovoid-subglobose; leaves oblong, 
lacunoso-rugose beneath, rather longer than the pedunele, undulated 
on the margin; peduncle short ; corymb dense; pedicels very short; 
bracts lanceolate, membranous ; perianth whitish ; tube cylindrical ; 
segments lanceolate, rather shorter than the tube; filaments uni- 
seriate, pale red, twice as long as the perianth-segments; anthers 
yellowish, Massonta undulata, Willd. ex Kunth, Enum. iv. 299. 
Sout ArFsgica: without locality, Willdenow Herb., 6373. 
6. P. hemanthoides (Baker in Hook. Ic. t. 1727); bulb ovoid, 
above 1 in. diam. ; leaves 2, humifuse, oblong, acute, smooth, 2—4 in. 
long, with a scabrous horny edge ; capitulum dense, globose ; pedicels 
very short; bracts small, white, membranous, ovate-lanceolate ; 
perianth pale; tube subcylindrieal, 3} in. long; segments oblong- 
lanceolate, much shorter than the tube; filaments bright red, 5 in. 
long; anthers small, yellow, oblong, versatile. 
Crentrat Reeion: F iv. 5 
Pict Semge yy raserburg Div.; on the Nieuwveld near Fraserburg, 
7. P. odorata (Baker); bulb ovoid, } in. diam. ; root-fibres few ; 
leaves 2, lanceolate, erect, glabrous, 3-5 in. long, 4-3 in. broad;~ 
peduncle about an inch long ; flowers white, fragrant, 6-10 in @ 
dense corymb; pedicels short; bracts small, lanceolate, membranous, 
perianth-tube narrowly infundibuliform, 2 in. long ; segments lanceo- 
late, falcate, 3 in. long. ; stamens slightly biseriate, inserted near the 
throat of the tube; filaments distinct; anthers small, oblong. 
Hassonia odorata, Hook. fil. in Bot. Mag. t. 5891; Baker in Journ. 
Bot. 1874, 5, 
CrntraL Recion : Colesberg, Arnot ! 
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in October, 1870. 
