Lachenalia. | LILIACEE (Baker), 425 
perianth bright orange-yellow. Florist, 1871, 265, EL. tricolor var. aurea, 
Hook. fil. in Bot, Mag. t. 5992. 
Coast ReGion: Malmesbury Div. ; Zwartland, Thunberg ! Cape Div. ; near 
Salt River, Thunberg / near Cape Town, Cooper, 3303! 3546! Var. 8, Malmes« 
bury Div. ; Zwartland, Zeyher. 1696! Groene Kloof, Drége, 8624! Saldanha Bay, 
Ecklon and Zeyher! Kulebas Kraal, Pappe! Var. y, Cape Flats, Pappe! 
Var. e, Paarl Mountains, 1750 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr. 
Afr., 504! Port Elizabeth, at Hill Park, Herb. E.S.C.A. 491! 
The varieties are connected by intermediate stages. Several hybrids between 
L. pendula and the varieties of L. tricolor are in cultivation, the finest of which 
is L. Camm, Hort., which combines the bright yellow flowers of L. aurea with 
the habit of L. pendula. L. Comessi, Hort., differs from L. Nelsoni by the 
outer segments being rather longer in proportion to the inner. 
4. L. reflexa (Thunb. Prodr, 64; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 327); 
bulb globose, 3-2 in. diam.; leaves 2, falcate, thin, lanceolate, 4-6 
in. long, clasping the base of the stem for 1-2 inches; pedunele 
2-6 in. long including the spike; spike usually few-, rarely many- 
flowered; rachis flexuose; flowers all erecto-patent; bracts small, 
deltoid-cuspidate ; perianth yellowish, about an inch long, finally 
¢ in. diam. ;. tube ventricose, oblique at the base, ‘as long as the outer 
segments, becoming scariose ; inner segments ;',—3 in. longer than the 
outer, spreading at the very tip, where they are 2 in. broad ; 
stamens included ; style finally exserted. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. 
Veg. vii. 617; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 404. Cclanthus com- 
plitatus, Willd. ex Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. xlvi. in note ; 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 282. 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; sandy places near Green Poiat, Pappe/ Flats 
between Tygerberg and Blueberg, Drége! Cape Flats, Bolus, 2838 ! Swellen- 
dam Div.; on mountain ridges by the lower part of Zonder Einde River, Zegher, 
4292! Alexandria Div. ; Zuurberg Range, Bolus, 2635 ! 
Mr. F. W. Moore, of Glasnevin, has sent to Kew a fine garden hybrid between 
this and L. tricolor var. aurea. . We have »lso received the same hybrid from 
Messrs. Dammann, of Naples, under the name of L. regeliana. 
5. L. orthopetala (Jacq. Collect. iii. 240 ; Ic. ii. 15, t. 383) ; bulb 
small, globose ; leaves 4-5, erect, linear, subulate, glabrous, 4—6 in. 
long, channelled down the face ; peduncle flexuose, 3-6 in. long ; 
flowers generally many, in a dense subspicate raceme 1-4 in. long, 
all permanently ascending; bracts deltoid-amplexicaul ; perianth 
oblong, 3-4 in. long, whitish or tinged with red on the upper part 
of the back of the segments; inner segments linear-oblong, a little 
longer than the outer, scarcely at all spreading; style exserted. 
Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 601; Kunth, Enum, iv. 286 ; 
Tratt. Archiv. t. 164; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 405. 
L. angustifolia, Herb. Drége. Scillopsis orthepetala, Lemaire in 
dll. Hort. iii, Mise. 34. scare ee 
Coa : Div.; between Groene Kloof an nha 
Bay, below 600 ft preweeyy rhe Div.; Koeberg, 500 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, 
Herb. Norm. Austr. Afr., 503! Tygerberg, MacOwan, 2522! 
A form sent in 1891 by Mr. F. W. Moore from the Glasnevin Garden has 
pedicels 3-2 in. long. 
