Veltheimia. | LILIACEZ (Baker). 471 
dorsifixed, dehiscing introrsely. Ovary sessile, oblong, 3-celled ; 
ovules 2, collateral. placed in the middle of the cells ; style filiform ; 
stigma small, capitate. Capsule large, membranous, turbinate, 
acutely triquetrous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds turbinate; testa 
thin, black ; albumen horny. 
Rootstock a large bulb with membranous tunies ; leaves all radical, membranous, 
lorate or lorate-oblong; peduncle stout, terete, naked; inflorescence a dense 
raceme ; pedicels short; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, membranous, 
. Bracts as long as the flowers ag a oo ... (1) bracteata. 
Bracts much shorter than the flowers : 
Leaf green, 2-3 in, broad oa ae “ae «. (2) viridifolia, 
Leaf glaucous, 14 in. broad... ee ih «. (3) glauca. 
1 V. bracteata (Harv. ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 411); 
leaves thin, lorate-oblanceolate, about a foot long, 2 in. broad, 
narrowed gradually from the middle to the base; peduncle about a 
foot long ; raceme very short and dense; pedicels nearly or quite 
obsolete ; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, as long as or a little longer 
than the flower; perianth yellow, about an inch long; segments 
3-1 in, long ; stamens half as long as the perianth, 
Coast Region : British Kaffraria, Cooper, 320! 
2. V. viridifolia (Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 41, t. 78); bulb ovoid, 
2-3 in. diam.; leaves oblong-lorate, green, membranous, finally a 
foot long, 2-3 in. broad at the middle; peduncle 1~13 ft. long, terete, 
green, mottled with purple; raceme very dense, 3-6 in. long; 
pedicels very short; bracts half as long as the flowers; perianth 
i~1} in. long, yellow or tinged with red; segments 3 in. long; 
stamens 3 in. long, not protruded out of the tube; capsule 13-1? in. 
long, with valves aninch broad. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 181; Lodd. 
Bot. Cab. t. 1245; Kunth, Enum. iv. 281; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xi.411. Aletris capensis, Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. 2,456; Mant. 367 ; 
Thunb. Prodr, 60; Bot. Mag. t. 501. V. undulata, Moench, Meth. 
631. V. capensis, Thunb. Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 309 ; Red. Lil.iv. ¢. 193. 
Coast Recron: Sand hills near Port Elizabeth, Burchell, Bulb 67! Albany 
Div.; near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 1831 ! 
3. V. glauca (Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 40, t. 77); bulb ovoid, 
2 in. diam. ; leaves about 6, oblanceolate-lorate, acute, glaucous, 
finally a foot long, 1} in. broad; peduncle not so stout as in the 
last; raceme very dense, 3-6 in. long; pedicels very short; bracts 
half as long as the flowers; perianth yellow or bright red, an inch 
long ; segments +}, in. long; stamens reaching to the throat of the 
perianth-tube. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 182; Wendl. Collect. iii. 11, 
t.78; Bot. Mag.t. 1091; Red, Lil, t. 440; Kunth, Enum. iv. 282; 
Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xi. 411. Aletris glauca, Ait. Hort. Kew. 
1, 463, 
Sours AFRica: without locality, Zeyher, 1719! Pappe! . 
Coast Reoron ; Malmesbury Div.; Saldanha Bay, Grey! near Malmesbury, 
250 ft., MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 9441 near Hopefield, 
Bachmann, 1943! “ 
Western Reaion : Little Namaqualand, Whitehead ! 
