Lachenalia} LILIACEE (Baker), 428 | 
Leaves usually 2; stamens short : 
Leaves subtercte 2... casas (26) campanulata, 
Leaves lanceolate or lorate, smooth : 
Flowers all ascending: 
Raceme dense .. 4.  ... (27) isopetala. 
Kaceme lax : 
Flowers whitish .., +» (28) mediana. 
Flowers bright red... eos (29) rosea. 
Lower ftowers spreading ; 
Periantb 2in.long ... —...._-: (80) Youngii. 
Perianth } in. long www. vee (81) succulenta, 
Leaves lanceolate or lorate, pustulate : 
Pedicels short... .-. (32) pallida, 
Podicels-long 56) © 66 wa .. (33) Cooperi. 
Leaves usually 2; stamens much exserted : 
Leaves subterete ... vee ove (84) Juncifolia. 
Leaves lorate or lanceolate : 
All the flowers ascending .., ... (35) purpureo-cerules. 
Lower flowers cernuous : 
Pedicels short ... a ... (36) unicolor, 
Pedicels long : 
Flowers violet eae ... (87) violacea, 
Leaves spreading, oblong : 
Perianth din. long... a ... (38) latifolia, 
Perianth 3-4 in. long: 
Leaf 2-2 in. long ew ... (39) bowieana. 
Leaf 4-5 in. long ois ... (40) nervosa. 
Leaves numerous ee oe 5 «. (41) polyphylla. 
Subgenus Bracuyscrpna. Perianth cylindrical ; segments all nearly uniform ; 
inflorescence capitate. : 
The only species i. eae on toe eee 
1. L. pendula (Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 461; edit. 2, ii. 288); bulb 
globose, 1 in. diam.; peduncle, including inflorescence, 3-1 ft. long, 
more robust than in the two next species; leaves 2, rarely 1, lorate- 
lanceolate, thin, 3-1 ft. long, 1}—2 in. broad at the middle; raceme 
few- or many-flowered, 2-6 in. long, all except the upper flowers 
more or less eernuous; pedicels very short; braets small, deltoid ; 
perianth-eylindrical, 1}-1} in. long, ~-} in. diam. ; outer segments 
linear-oblong, yellow passing upwards into red, not spotted ; inner but 
little longer, bright red-purple at the truncate tip, { in. broad; 
stamens reaching the tip of the perianth ; style finally just exserted. 
Thunb. Prodr. 64; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 328; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 
180; Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 41; Sims in Bot. Mag. t 590; Roem. et 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 614; Tratt. Archiv. t. 151-152; Kunth, 
Enum. iv. 291; Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xi. 403, 
: iv. ; near Hout Bay, 1100 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, 
fick’ Nobet teat i pei Cape Flats, Burchell, 8575 ! Rogers ! Stellenbosch, 
Div., Zeyher / Hottentots Holland, Ecklon and Zeyher, 82 ! 
2. L. rubida (Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 60; Ic. ii. 17, t. 398); bulb 
globose, about 4 in. diam. ; peduncle, including inflorescence, 6-9 in. 
long ; leaves usually 2, lanceolate, finally 5-6 in. long, about an inch 
broad at the middle, spotted, much narrowed to a long clasping 
