436 LILIACER (Baker). [ Lachenalia. 
stiffly erect, 3-Gin. long; raceme dense, 4-6 in. long, 1—1} in. diam. ; 
pedicels short, erecto-patent ; bracts deltoid ; perianth campanulate, 
1 in. long, bright red ; inner segments scarcely longer than the outer, 
spreading only at the tip; stamens much exserted. Roem. et 
Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 607; Kunth, Enum. iv. 288; Baker in — 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 410. Platyestes nervosa, Salish. Gen. 21. — 
Scillopsis nervosa, Lemaire in Ill. Hort. iii. Mise. 34. 
Sourn Arrica: without locality, Bowie (a drawing in the Kew Herbarium) ! 
Coast Ruaion : Mossel Bay Div. ; dry hills on the East side of Gauritz River, 
Burchell, 6438 ! 
41. L. polyphylla (Baker in Engl. Jahrb. xv. Heft 3, 7) ; bulb 
small, ovoid ; leaves 6-8, slender, subterete, erect, smooth, shorter 
than the pedunele; pedunele slender, unspotted, 4-8 in. long; 
flowers 8-15 in a moderately dense raceme 4-1 in. long, 3-§ in. 
diam., lower cernuous; pedicels erecto-patent, 4-3 in. long; bracts 
minute; perianth campanulate, 2 in. long and broad, white, tinged 
with red ; inner segments slightly longer than the outer ; stamens 
distinctly exserted. 
Coast Recion : Tulbagh, Ecklon and Zeyher, 50! 
42. L. pusilla (Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 71; Ic. ii. 15, t. 885); bulb 
globose, 3 in. diam. ; leaves about 4, lanceolate, coriaceous, glabrous, 
with a thickened margin, 2-3 in. long, narrowed gradually from the 
middle to a short clasping petiole, spotted with brown or becoming 
red-brown when exposed; peduncle 3~liin. long; flowers 6-12 in 
a dense corymb, permanently erect, pale lilac ; pedicels ,—} in. long; 
bracts small, deltoid ; perianth cylindrical, {-} in. long; tube very 
short ; inner segments obscurely spathulate, slightly longer than the 
_ outer; stamens and style much exserted. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 175; 
Trait. Archiv. t. 144; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 616; Kunth, 
Enum. iv. 292. Massonia undulata, Thunb. Prodr. 60; Fl. Cap. 
edit. Schult. 308 ; Diss. Nov. Gen. ii. 41; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 28; 
Ait, Hort. Kew, edit. 2, ii. 211; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 
992; Kunth, Enum. iv. 300. Brachyscypha undulata, Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc, xi. 394. 
Sour A¥Rica: with i ! ! 
Zeuher, 23! and a Pie to poche eam ‘aiden wid oie — 
Coast Reaion : Malmesbury Div. ; near Hopefield, Bachmann, 1791! 
XXVIIL DRIMIA, Jacq. 
Perianth gamophyllous, deciduous, cut away round the base ; tube 
campanulate ; segments subequal, linear-oblong, spreading or re- 
flexing, generally cucullate at the apex. Stamens 6, inserted at the 
oa of the perianth-tube, shorter than the segments, sometimes 
we! declinate ; filaments filiform; anthers small, oblong, versa- 
ile, dehiseing introrsely, Ovary sessile, ovoid, 3-celled; ovules 
