Lachenalia.] LILIACEZ (Baker), 435 
Var. 8, L. purpurea (Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 65; Ie. ii. 16, ¢. 393); outer seg- 
ments white tipped with green, inner purple. Tratt. Archiv. t, 148; Willd. 
8p. Plant. ii. 177; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 609; Kunth, Hnum. iv. 
289. Scillopsis purpurea, Lemaire in Ill. Hort. iii. Misc. 36. 
VaR. y, L. fragrans (Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 43, t. 82) ; habit more slender ; 
perianth white, slightly tinged with red. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 176; Lodd. Bot. 
Cab. t.1140; Tratt. Archiv. t, 141; Kunth, Enum. iv. 287. Scillopsis fragrans, 
Lemaire in Tl. Hort. iii, Misc. 35. 
SourTH Arrica: without locality, MacOwan, 2283 ! 
Coast Recion: Clanwilliam Div.; near the Oliphants River, Ecklon and 
Zeyher, 43! 44! Zeyher! Malmesbury Div.; Groene Kloof, Ecklon and 
Zeyher, 54! Bolus, 4352! Bachmann, 1284! Tulbagh Div.; Winterhoek, 
Pappe! Steendaal, Pappe! Mossel Bay Div.; Between Zout River and 
Duyker River. Burchell, 6346! George Div.; Montagu Pass, 1200 ft., Young 
in Herb. Bolus, 5545! 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand; near Ookiep, Morris in Herb. 
Bolus, 5804! near Modder Fontein, 3000 ft., Bolus, 6591! 
37. L. violacea (Jacq. Collect. iv. 147; Ic, ii. 16, t, 394); bulb 
2 in. diam. ; leaves 2, lorate, smooth, spotted, 4 ft. long, an inch 
broad; peduncle curved, 3-1 ft. long; raceme lax, 4-5 in. long, 
13-1} in. diam.; flowers many, cernuous ; pedicels 3-2 in. long; 
bracts minute ; perianth campanulate, + in. long; outer segments 
greenish, inner rather longer, violet, spreading at the tip; stamens 
much exserted. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 177; Tratt. Archiv. t. 166 ; 
Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 610 ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 289; Baker 
tn Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 410, Lz. bicolor, Lodd. Bot. Oab. t. 1129; 
Kunth, loc. cit. Scillopsis violacea, Lemaire im iil. Hort. iii. 
Misc. 35. 
Soura Arrica: without locality, cultivated specimen ! 
38. L. latifolia (Tratt. Archiv. t. 148); bulb large, globose ; leaves 
2, thin, smooth, oblong, 8-4 in. long, 1-12 in. broad ; peduncle, un- 
spotted, erect, 4—6 in. long; raceme moderately.dense, 3-4 in. long, 
under an inch in diameter ; lower flowers horizontal or cernuous ; 
pedicels short, erecto-patent ; perianth bright red, campanulate, } in. 
long; segments subequal; stamens bright red, much exserted. 
L. fragrans, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 302, non Jacq. 
Coast Rucion: Swellendam Div.; among shrubs by the Buffeljagts River, 
Zeyher, 4290! 
39. L. bowieana (Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xi. 410); bulb 
large, globose; leaves 2, ovate-oblong, spreading, 2-2} in. long, 
1-1} in. broad, smooth, spotted with red-brown ; peduncle 5-6 in. 
long ; raceme 20-30-flowered, 3~4 in. long, 1}-1} in. diam. ; pedicels 
% in. long; bracts deltoid, minute; perianth oblong-campanulate, 
¢-} in. long, white, tinged with red; inner segments a little longer 
than the outer ; stamens much exserted. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Bowie / 
EP rteigiogen from a drawing of a plant grown at Kew about 1820, introduced by 
wie. 
40. L. nervosa (Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1497); bulb large, globose ; 
leaves 2, oblong, thin, smooth, spreading, 4-5 in. long, 14~2 in. 
broad at the middle, conspicuously vertically veined ; peduncle stout, 
