Ornithogalum. } LILIacEz (Baker). 509 
peduncle rigid, 4-5 in. long; raceme lax, 20-flowered; pedicels 
patent, 2 in. long ; bracts scariose, acuminate ; perianth 4-2 in. long ; 
Segments ;';—-} in. broad, yellow, 3—4-nerved; filaments dilated at 
the base. 
Westxren Reaion: Great Namaqualand ; Rehoboth, Fleck, 890. Not in Kew 
Herbarium. 
The locality is just north of the Tropic, but I include the species here, as it will 
doubtless be found to occur within the limits of the South African flora. 
47. 0. bolusianum (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xiii. 279); bulb 
depresso-globose, an inch in diameter; leaves 2-4, clasping the base 
of the stem, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, spreading, pilose; 
peduncle slender, 6-8 in. long ; raceme lax, few-flowered ; pedicels 
ascending, lower 3-2 in. long; bracts small, deltoid-euspidate ; 
perianth yellowish green, } in. long; segments oblong, with a laxly 
3-nerved green keel ; stamens more than half as long as the perianth ; 
filaments lanceolate ; style shorter than the oyary.. 
CENTRAL Reaion: hills near Graaff Reinet, 2600 ft., Bolus, 96! 778! 
There is also a drawing at Kew, made from a plant introduced by Bowie, 
cultivated at Kew in 1823. 
48. 0. calcaratum (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1874, i. 723); bulb 
ovoid, 8 in. diam.; leaf solitary, terete, glabrous, 7-8 in. long, with 
many fine ribs; peduncle very slender, terete, a foot long; raceme 
laxly 8~10-flowered, 1-1} in. long; pedicels erecto-patent, }4 in. 
long ; bracts minute, deltoid, with a large spur at the base; perianth 
white, 1 in. long; segments oblong, 3 in. long, distinctly keeled with 
green ; stamens nearly as longas the perianth ; filaments not distinctly 
flattened; style as long as the ovary. 
Sovrn Arsica: without locality, MacOwan. 
Described from a plant cultivated by Mr. W. Wilson Saunders at Reigate in 
1872, received from Prof. MacOwan. No specimen at Kew. 
49. 0. niveum (Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 440; edit. 2, ii, 257); bulb 
globose, 3} in. diam. ; leaves 5-6, filiform, glabrous, spreading, 4 ft. 
long ; peduncle slender, much shorter than the leaves; raceme lax, 
few-flowered ; pedicels ascending, lower 3-3 in. long; bracts small, 
ovate-cuspidate ; perianth whitish, 3-2 in. long; segments oblong, 
distinctly keeled with green ; stamens 3 the length of the perianth ; 
filaments linear and lanceolate; style ~; in. long. Willd. Sp. Plant. 
ii. 115; Bot. Reg. t. 235; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. §27 ;5W 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 358; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 274. 
Urophyllon niveum, Salish. Gen. 36. 
- Soutn AFRica: without locality, Masson ! 
CentRaL Rge@ion: ciate ie Zwartwarter Poort, Burchell, 3367! 
50. 0.% bulbinelloides (Baker) ; rootstock unknown; leaves 
subterete, 3 ft. long, channelled down the face, glabrous ; peduncle 
terete, as long as the leaves; raceme lax, 2~3 in. long; pedicels 
