— 498 LILIacez (Baker). [Ornithogalum. 
usually 2, rarely 1, erect; pedicels short; bracts lanceolate, mem- 
branous; perianth campanulate, pure white, } in. long; segments 
oblong, obtuse, much imbricated; ovary globose; style very short; 
stamens half as long as the perianth, linear, uniform; anthers 
oblong, small, yellow. 
EasTerN ReGion: Natal; summit of Tambamhlopi Mountain, in swamps, 
6000-7000 ft., Evans, 374! 
5. 0. pauciflorum (Baker) ; bulb globose, 3-1 in. diam. ; leaves 
few, very slender, filiform, glabrous, 1-1} in. long; peduncle very 
slender, 13 in. long; perianth campanulate, 1in. long; segments 
oblong, pure white, without any green keel; stamens 4 shorter 
than the perianth ; filaments linear, uniform ; anthers small, oblong; 
style shorter than the globose ovary. 
SoutH Arrica: without locality, Bergius ! in Berlin Herbarium. 
6. 0. rupestre (Linn, fil. Suppl. 199) ; bulb ovoid, 4-4 in. diam. ; 
leaves 3-6, subterete, clasping the base of the stem, 2-3 in. long; 
peduncle slender, 2-4 in. long; flowers 1-6, subcorymbose ; lower 
pedicels arcuate, 1-2 in. long; bracts lanceolate, 1} in. long ; perianth 
white, campanulate, 1-1 in. long; segments oblong, subobtuse, } 10. 
broad ; stamens less than half as long as the perianth; filaments 
lanceolate, alternate broader ; ovary ovoid; style stout, very short. 
Thunb. Prodr. 61; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 313; Willd. Sp. Plant. 
ii, 123; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 526; Kunth, Enum. iv. 
367 ; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 271. O. virgineum, 
ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 271. 
Coast Rratox: Malmesbury Div.; Witte Klip, Thunberg! Groene Kloof, 
Thunberg! Pappe! Klip Berg, near Darling, e, 1512! Tulbagh Div.; 
New Kloof, near Tulbagh, Zeyher, 4205! 
Western Reoron : Little Namaqualand, near Kook Fontein, Drége, 2663 ! by 
the Orange River near Verleptpram, under 1000 ft., Drége, 2662! and without 
precise locality, Morris in Herb. Bolus, 5806! Scully, 143! Pappe! MacOwan 
and Bolus, Herb. Norm, Aust. Afr., 1891! 
7. 0. inconspicuum (Baker); bulb small, globose; tunics mem- 
branous; leaves 3, erect, glabrous, subterete, much shorter than the 
peduncle, under 1 lin. diam.; peduncle slender, terete, fragile, 4 
foot or more long; raceme short, dense, few-flowered ;_ bracts lanceo- 
late, membranous, the lower 1-2 in. long; pedicels short, erecto- 
patent ; perianth 3} in. long; segments oblong, tinged with brown 
on the back, not distinctly keeled; stamens shorter than the peri- 
anth ; anthers small, oblong ; ovary globose; style short, subulate. 
Katanari Region: Transvaal; Lomati Barberton, in swamp8, | 
4000 £¢., Galpin, 1361! 3 Valley, near ; 
- 8, 0. aurantiacum (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1878, x. 748); bulb 
ovoid, $ in. diam. ; tunics thin, pale; leaves 2-3, very slender, terete, 
glabrous, shorter than the peduncle ; peduncle very slender, odin 
long ; flowers 1-2, bright yellow; pedicels short; bracts ovate- 
