424 LILIACEEZ (Baker). [ Lachenalia. 
hase; raceme 6—20-flowered, all the flowers except the uppermost 
more or less drooping ; pedicels very short; bracts minute, deltoid ; 
perianth cylindrical, about an inch long, 3 in. diam.; outer segments 
bright red, tipped with green ; inner 1—; in. longer, yellow below 
the exposed tip, where they are 2 in. broad ; stamens reaching to the 
tip of the outer perianth-segments; style finally just exserted. 
Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 179; Ait. Hort. Kew, edit. 2, ti, 288; Roem. et 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 615 ; Tratt. Archiv. t.145; Kunth, Enum. 
iv. 291; Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xi, 404. 
Var. 8, L. tigrina (Jacq. Collect. Suppl.. 67; Ic. ii. 17, t. 399); outer 
perianth-segments with dense minute spots of bright red on a yellowish ground. 
a et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 615; Tratt. Archiv. t. 146; Kunth, Enum. iv. 
1. 
Var. y, L. punetata (Jacq. Collect. ii. 823; Ic. ii. 16, t. 397); outer segments 
with spots of dark red on a paler red ground ; inner pale yellow, spotted towards 
the tip with red. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 180; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 
616 ; Tratt. Archiv. t. 147; Kunth, Enum, iv. 291. 
Coast Region: Malmesbury, Bachmann, 1877! Cape Div.; Muizenberg, 
100-200 ft., Bolus, 4889! MacOwan, 2551! Pappe ! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. 
Norm, Austr. Afr., 796! Fiats between Tygerberg and Blueberg, under 
500 fr., Drége! Var. y, Clanwilliam, Mader, 2161! : 
CENTRAL Region: Var. y, Calvinia Div.; Bitter Fontein, Zeyher, 1697! 
Westekn Rea@ion ;: Little Namaqualand, Whitehead ! 
3. L. tricolor (Thunb. Prodr. 64; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 327) ; 
bulb globose, #-1 in. diam. ; peduncle, including inflorescence, 5-1 ft. 
long; leaves usually 2, lanceolate-lorate, 6—9 in. long, about 1 in. 
broad, thin, often spotted, with purple or darker green; raceme 
few- or many-flowered, usually 3-4, rarely 6-9, in. long; lower 
flowers cernuous; lower pedicels 11 in. long ; bracts small, deltoid ; 
perianth cylindrical, 2-1 im. long, 1 in. diam.; outer segments 
oblong, 3 in. long, yeliow, tipped with green ; inner }-3 in. longer, 
purplish-red at the spreading truncate tip, which is } in, broad ; 
stamens reaching to the tip of the inner segments; style finally a 
little exserted. Ourt.in Bot. Mag. t. 82; Red. Lil. t. 2; Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 767 ; Kerner, Hort. t.176 ; Tratt. Archiv. t.148 ; Roem. 
et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 612; Kunth, Enum. iv. 290; Baker in 
Journ. Linn, Soc. xi. 404. Phormium aloides, Linn. fil. Suppl. 
205, ex parte. ; 
Van. 8, L. quadricolor (Jacq. Collect. § i ia 
i oe . Suppl. 62 ; Ic. ii. 16, t. 396); perianth 
with a red base and greenish-yellow middle ; outer ‘segments tipped with green ; 
inner with red-purple. Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 148; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 746 ; Reich. Flor. 
Mere M19; Tratt. Archiv. t. 153; Kunth, Enum. iv. 291. L. superba, Hort. 
A com 7, L. luteola (Jacq. Collect. iv. 148 ; Ic. ii. 16, t. 395) ; perianth lemon- 
390; 2. tinged with green towards the tip. Red. Lil. t. 297; Kunth, Enwm. iv. 
othe odd. Bot. Cab. t..784 ; Tratt. Archiv, tt. 149, 150 ; Fl..des Serres, t. 1873. 
a ee pathaggee ow read spon in Bot. Mag. t.1704. L. macrophylla, Lemaire, 
288 ; Bok. Map. ¢. sone. ; color var, luteola, Ait. Hort, Kew. edit. 2, . 
ak. 8, L. Nelsoni (Hort. in Floral M: : s 
rt. in t ag. n.s. t. 452); anth bright yellow, 
heat bk of segments faintly tinged with green. Berl, Gentine #383, 421, 
Var. ¢, L. aurea (Lindl, in Gard, Chron, 1856, 404, f. 176 ; 1872, 291, f. 109); 
