Drimia.] Littacem (Baker). 441 
Coast Recion: Uitenhage Div.; between Galgebosch and Melk River, 
Burchell, 4769! and without precise locality, Ecklon and Zeyher, 954! 
CenTrat Reaion: Somerset Div.; stony places on the sides of Bruintjes 
Hoogte, 3500 ft., MacOwan, 1835a ! 1854! Richmond Div.; northern slopes of 
the Sneeuw Berg Rangé, near Nieuw Berg, 4800 ft., Bolus, 2573! 
12. D. elata (Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 38; Ic. ii. 15, t. 373); bulb 
globose, about 8 in. diam.; tunics brown, imbricated ; leaves 5-6, 
produced after the flowers, lanceolate, glaucescent, glabrous, sub- 
erect, a foot or more long, 4-2 in. broad; peduncle stiffly erect, 
2~2 ft. long; raceme moderately dense, cylindrical, 3-1} ft. long, 
13-2 in. diam. ; lower pedicels about } in. long; bracts lanceolate, 
32 in. long ; perianth 1-8 in. long, greenish-purple; tube campanu- 
late, 2 in. long; segments canaliculate, reflexing; stamens a little 
- shorter than the perianth-segments; style reaching the tip of the 
‘perianth-segments ; capsule subglobose, deeply lobed laterally, 
3-$ in. long. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 165; Red. Lil. t. 430 ; Bot. 
Mag. t. 822; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 597 ; Baker in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xi. 422. Hyacinthus elatus, Poir. Encye. Suppl. iii. 120. 
Idothea elata, Kunth, Enum. iv. 343. Drimia concolor, Baker, loc. 
cit. 
Sourn Arrica; without locality, Zeyher, 1713! 
Coast ReGion ; Malmesbury Div., Bachmann, 1033! Cape Flats, near Rose- 
bank, below 100 ft., Bolus, 3922! Stockenstrom Div. ; summit of Chumie Peak, 
Beully, 166 ! 
Katawart Region: Orange Free State; Caledon River, Burke ! 
Eastern Recron: Tembuland; hillsides, Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 418 ! Natal ; 
Umsondus River, Rehmann, 7632 ! and without precise locality, Sanderson, 464 ! 
Buchanan! Mrs. K. Saunders! 
13. D. pauciflora (Baker in Engl. Jahrb. xv. Heft 3,6); bulb 
and leaves unknown; peduncle long, stiff; raceme very lax, 3 ft. 
long, 8-10-flowered ; lower pedicels ascending, 1} in. long in flower, 
2-3 in. in fruit; upper ascending, much shorter; bracts very small, 
deciduous ; perianth §—% in. long ; tube short, campanulate ; lobes 
linear-conduplicate, with a white edge and brown keel ; ovary linear- 
oblong, narrowed to a style } in. long; capsule oblong, deeply 
lobed, 1-13 in. long; seeds many, thin, flat, black, 3-3 in. diam. 
Sovurn Arzica: without locality, Hcklon and Zeyher, 102! 
14. D. spherocephala (Baker) ; bulb globose, 1 in. diam. ; leaves 
hysteranthous, not seen; peduncle terete, a foot long 5 flowers very _ 
numerous, aggregated into a globose umbel 1 in. diam. ; pedicels 
#44 in. long; bracts lanceolate, longer than the pedicels; perianth 
white, tinged with red, } in. long; tube short, campanulate; seg- 
ments sacks channelled, 2-3 tinnes the length of the tube pry 
as long as the perianth ; anthers small, oblong ; ovary globose; style 
straight, subulate. 
Katanani Reoron: Transvaal - rocky mountain sides at the back of Conces- 
sion Creek, near Barberton, 4500 ft., Galpin, 1020! 
