Urginea.] LILIACEE (Baker). 465 
inch long, } in. broad, with a thickened margin ciliated with dense, 
persistent, short, spreading black bristles; peduncle slender, terete, 
5-8 in. long; raceme oblong, lax, 2-3 in. long, under an inch in diam. ; 
pedicels ascending, }~3 in. long, cernuous at the apex; bracts deltoid, 
very minute ; perianth 3 in. long; segments oblong, keeled with 
purple ; filaments short, filiform ; capsule unknown. Ornithogalum 
ciliatum, Linn. fil. Suppl. 199; Thunb. Prodr. 62; Fl. Cap. edit. 
Schult. 316; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 117; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
vii. 528; Kunth, Enum. iv. 359. 
Soutn ArFrica: without locality, Thunberg ! 
7. U. Eckloni (Baker in Engl. Jahrb, xv. Beibl. 35, 6); bulb 
globose, } in. diam. ; leaves hysteranthous, not seen; peduncle very 
slender, wiry, 4-8 in. long; raceme dense, capitate, 1 in. diam. ; 
pedicels erecto-patent, t~-} in. long; bracts minute, deltoid, persis- 
tent ; perianth campanulate, 1 in. long; segments oblong, white 
with a brown keel, splitting off from the receptacle at the base ; 
stamens shorter than the perianth; ovary globose; style short. 
Soutn Argica: without locality, Ecklon and Zeyher, 128! Not in Kew 
Herbarium. 
Nearly allied to U. capttata. 
8. U. capitata (Baker); bulb globose, 13-2 in. diam.; leaves 
6-8, not fully developed till after the flowers fade, linear, a foot 
long, 3~} in. broad ; peduncle lateral, terete, 3-1 ft. long ; raceme 
many-flowered, capitate, globose, 1} in. diam.; pedicels at first 
3-3 in. long, finally 14 in. long; bracts minute, ovate, deeply 
saccate in the middle; perianth 3-1 in. long, white inside, bright 
claret-purple outside; filaments clavate, much shorter than the 
perianth ; style tricuspidate, as long as the ovoid ovary; capsule 
2 in. long. Ornithogalum capitatum, Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 5388 ; 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, xiti. 284. 
Coast Reeron : British Kaffraria, Cooper, 203! 3275! 
Katanart REGION: Transvaal; Saddleback Range, near Barberton, 5000 ft., 
Galpin, 987! 
Eastern Reoron: Griqualand Bast; hills around Kokstad, Tyson, 1842! 
Natal; Inanda, Wood, 178! 
9. U. fragrans (Steinh. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 2, i. 328); bulb 
globose, 13-2 in. ton squamose upwards, the tunies scarcely pro- 
duced above its neck ; leaves 12-20, contemporary nen the flowers, 
subterete, glabrous, firm in texture, 6-8 in. long, 3 lin. ~~ ; 
peduncle slender, terete, glaucous, a foot long; raceme moderately 
dense, 4-6 in. long ; pedicels }~} in. long; bracts — —— 
at the base; perianth white, fragrant, 2 in. long ; segments o! ong, 
with a purplish keel ; filaments filiform, half as long as the perianth 3 
style slightly declinate, } in. long; capsule not egy omg - 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 219. Anthericum fragrans, a, 
Schoenbr. i. 45, t. 86; Willd. Sp. Piant. ii. 135; Roem. et “ 
Syst. Veg. vii. 470. Albuca fugaz, Gawl. in Bot. Reg. t. 311. 
