Ornithogalum.] LILIACEX (Baker). 505 
keeled, 2 in. broad ; stamens 2 shorter than the perianth ; filaments 
lanceolate ; style filiform, ! in. long. 
Eastern Region: Tembuland; Bazeia Mountain, 4000 ft., Baur, 552! 
32. 0. coarctatum (Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 77; Ic. ii. 20, t. 435) ; 
bulb globose, 1 in. diam.; leaves 4-5, linear, glabrous, channelled 
down the face, shorter than the peduncle ; peduncle slender, 1-12 ft. 
long; raceme dense, subcorymbose ; pedicels erecto-patent, lower 
1-1} in. long; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 3-3 in. long; perianth 
white, }~ in. long; segments oblong, subacute, 2 in, broad ; 
stamens not more than } as lung as the segments; filaments all dilated 
at the base, alternate obscurely tricuspidate ; ovary ovoid ; style fili- 
form, 4 in. long. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 125; Roem. et Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. vii. 511; Kunth, Enum. iv. 353; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. xiii. 270. 
Sourn Argica: without locality, Zeyher, 1679! 
Coast Raion: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Pappe! Albany Div.; in marshy 
ravines around Grahamstown, 1500-2500 ft., Galpin, 312! 
33. 0. tenellum (Jacq. Collect. ii. 316; Ic. ii. 19, t. 427); bulb 
globose, 1 in. diam.; leaves 4-5, linear, glabrous, 3-1 ft. long; 
peduncle slender, stiffly erect, a foot or more long; raceme dense, 
subcorymbose ; pedicels erecto-patent, lower 1-2 in. Jong; bracts 
ovate-acuminate, 1-8 in. long; perianth pure white, 3-3 in. long; 
segments oblong, 2 in. broad, not keeled ; stamens half as long as the 
perianth ; alternate filaments dilated at the base ; style slender, 4, in. 
long. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 121; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 
526; Kunth, Enum. iv. 358; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xiii. 283. 
Coast Reaton : Swellendam Div. ; between Duivenhoeks River and Grootvaders 
Bosch, Burchell, 7216! 
Perhaps only a slender, narrow-leaved variety of O. lactewm. 
34. 0. lacteum (Jacq. Collect. Suppl. 76 ; Ic. ii, 20, t. 434); bulb 
globose, 1~12 in. diam. ; leaves 6~12, lanceolate, thin, hairy on the 
margin, 3-1 in. broad ; pedunele stout, erect, 1-1} ft. long; raceme 
dense, many-flowered, subcorymbose ; lower pedicels reaching 1}-2 in. 
long; bracts large, ovate-acuminate ; perianth pure white, 3 in. long ; 
segments oblong, not keeled, } in. broad ; stamens 3-3 as long as the 
perianth ; filaments alternately lanceolate and lanceolate with an 
ovate base; style slender, 3} in. long. Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 117 ; 
Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 274; Bot. Mag. t. 1184; Red. Lil. vii. ¢. 418; 
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1159 ; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 513, 1698 ; 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 354; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 283. 
Aspasia lactea, Salisb. Gen. 34. 
Var. 8, conicum (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 284) ; more slender, with a 
laxer inflorescence and narrower, more acute perianth-segments. 0. conicum, 
Jacq. Collect. iii, 232; Ie. ii. 19, t. 428; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 514; 
Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 3538; Kunth, Enum. iv. 354. 
