Dipeadi.} LILIACER (Baker). 449 
12. D. viride (Moench, Meth. Suppl. 267); bulb globose or 
ovoid, {-1 in. diam.; leaves 8-6, linear, glabrous, fleshy, flaccid, 
271 ft. long, 3-1 in. broad; peduncle stiff, slender, 4-1} ft. long ; 
raceme very lax, 6—-15-flowered ; lower pedicels 3-1 in. long; bracts — 
large, ovate-lanceolate, with a long cusp ; perianth bright green, 
1-1; in. long; inner segments and tube together 4-8 in. long ; outer 
segments filiform, reflexing, }-1 in. long ; stamens inserted at. the 
throat of the tube; filaments shorter than the anthers; capsule 
obscurely stipitate, 3-8 in. Jong and broad; seeds about 15 in a 
cell. Bakerin Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 401. Hyacinthus viridis, Linn. 
Sp. Plant, edit. 2, 454; Jacq Ic.t.66; Red. Lil. t.203. Lachenalia 
viridis, Thunb. Prodr. 64; Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 462; edit. 2, ii. 285; 
Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 174, Zuccagnia viridis, Thunb. Fl. Oap. edit. 
Schult. 328. Phormium viride, Thunb. Nov. Gert. ‘127 in syn. 
Uropetalum viride, Gawl.in Bot. Reg. sub t. 156 ; Roem, et Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. vii. 620; Kunth, Enum. iv. 379. Dipeadi filamentosum, 
Medic. in Ust. Ann, ii. 13. 
Coast Rxe@ron: Riversdale Div.; near Kafferkuils River, Thunberg. Uiten- 
hage Div., Zeyher ! Ecklon and Zeyher, 49! 
Cunrrat Region: Somerset Div. ; at the foot of the Bosch Berg, 2500 ft., 
MacOwan, 1924! Graaff Reinet Div.; Karoo near Graaff Reinet, 2600 ft., 
Bolus, 739! Albert Div., Cooper, 3289! : 
Katanart Ruoion: Griqualand West; Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 2048 ! 
Orange Free State; Caledon River, Burke! and without precise locality, 
Cooper, 888! ‘Transvaal ; damp grassy hollows near Barberton, 2800 ft., Galpin, 
1154! 
EastzEn ReGion: Pondoland, Backmann, 282! 283! Natal ; Inanda, Wood, 
266! 384! 1423! Mooi River district, 4000-5900 ft., Wood, 5623! Nottingham, 
Buchanan, 144! 
_ 18. D. elatum (Baker); bulb not seen; leaves 4, firm, erect, 
linear, glabrous, a foot long, } in. broad; peduncle slender, terete, 
2 ft. long ; raceme lax, a foot long; pedicels erecto-patent, lower 
3 in. long; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, lower } in. long; perianth 
greenish ; tube subcampanulate, 4 in. long ; inner segments oblong, 
as long as the tube ; outer setaceous, 1-1} in. long, longer in the 
_ upper flowers; stamens rather shorter than the inner segments ; 
capsule 3 in. long and broad. 
Eastern Reaion: Griqualand East; moist places around Clydesdale, 2500 ft., 
Tyson, 2107 ! 
14. D. crispum (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xi. 399); bulb 
globose, 1 in. Veg leaves 3-5, linear, membranous, flaccid, glabrous, 
4-5 in. long and crisped in the wild plant, above a ere long, & in. 
broad and plane when cultivated; peduncle slender, 3-1 ft, long ; 
raceme very lax, subseeund, 10-15-flowered ; lower pedicels 7-3 in. 
long ; lower bracts lanceolate, shorter than the ret i upper 
small, deltoid ; perianth green, $-Z in. long; tube oie oe = 
the ovary; outer segments linear-convolute, 7-3 in. me a 
connivent, 4 in. shorter; stamens inserted at the throat o’ pa 
filaments very short. Uropetalum crispum, Burch. ex Gawl, in Bot. 
Reg. sub t. 156 (name only). 
