440 _ Liiracez (Baker). [Drimia. 
Poir. Encye. Suppl. iii. 120. Idothea ciliaris, Kunth, Enum. iv. 
343. 
Czntrat Region : stony hills near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 781! 
8. D. purpurascens (Jacq. fil. Eclog. 48, t. 30); bulb globose ; 
leaves 9-10, produced after the flowers, linear, glabrous, 5 ft. long. 
2 in. broad ; pedunele a foot long, terete, purplish, glaucous ; raceme 
oblong ; flowers about 30; pedicels as long as the flowers; bracts 
linear-lanceolate, half as long as the pedicels, gibbous near the base ; 
perianth purplish-green, 3 in. long; tube short; segments canalicu- 
late; stamens nearly as long as the perianth-segments ; style 
exserted. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 598; Baker in Journ, 
Linn. Soc. xi. 421. Idothea purpurascens, Kunth, Enum, iv. 342. 
Sour Arrica: without locality. 
Known only from Jacquin’s description and figure. 
9. D. angustifolia (Baker); bulb globose, 3 in. diam.; leaves 
about 6, produced after the flowers, Jinear, thin, flaccid, glabrous, 
2-22 ft. long, }-3 in. broad; peduncle 2-3 ft. long; raceme very 
lax, a foot or more long; lower pedicels curved, 1—1} in. long; bracts 
lanceolate, deciduous, 1-2 in. long, protruded a little beyond the 
buds ; perianth greenish, 4—§ in. long; tube campanulate, 4 in. long ; 
segments channelled; stamens shorter than the perianth-segments ; 
style reaching to the tip of the segments. D. elata B Coopert, 
Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc, xi, 422. 
Centra Raion: Somerset Div. ; at the foot of Bosch Berg, Tuck in Herb. 
MacOwan, 2211! Tarkastad Div.; near Tarka, Cooper, 387! 
- Eastern ReGion: Natal; valley near Colenso, 3000 ft., Wood, 4027 ! 
10. D. haworthioides (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1875, iii. 366) ; 
rootstock epigzous, consisting of a rosette of oblong-spathulate 
fleshy scale-leaves ; proper leaves 8-4, produced in February, lanceo- 
late, thin, glabrous, 2-3 in. long, }-} in. broad ; peduncle produced 
in December, slender, terete, a foot long; raceme very lax, oblong; 
2-3 in. long, an inch broad; pedicels 1 in, long, erecto-patent ; 
bracts minute, spurred at the base; perianth greenish-white, } in. 
long; segments cucullate, 3 times the length of the campanulate 
tube ; stamens shorter than the perianth-segments. 
CENTRAL REGION : stony places, Graaff Reinet, 2500-3200 ft., Bolus, 40! 
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew, Dec., 1874. 
11. D. Burchellii (Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. iii. App. 2); bulb 
ovoid, 2-3 in. diam. ; leaves 5-6, produced in April and May, lorate, 
glabrous, thin, flaccid, 6-10 in. long, about an inch broad ; peduncle 
1-1} ft. long; raceme moderately dense, cylindrical, finally a foot 
long, 1-1} in. diam. ; pedicels very short, at most =4,—} in. long; 
bracts small, lanceolate ; perianth 4—1 in, long, dull-red tinged with 
green; segments channelled, twice as long as the tube; stamens 
pene + the perianth-segments ; style } in. long. Journ. Linn. 
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