ee 
Ornithogalum.} LILIACEZ (Baker). 11 
ovate, cuspidate ; perianth white, 3 in. long; segments keeled with 
reddish-brown ; stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; filaments 
flattened ; style as long as the ovary. 
Coast Re@ron: Tulbagh, Pappe! 
55. 0. comptum (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. xiii, 274) ; bulb sub- 
globose, 2-1 in, diam. ; leaves 6-12, linear-subulate, rigid in texture, 
glabrous, strongly ribbed, 2-6 in. long, often spirally twisted ; 
peduncle j~1 ft. long ; raceme dense, 1-3 in. long ; pedicels very short ; 
bracts small, lanceolate from a deltoid base ; perianth brownish-white, 
% in. long; segments distinetly keeled with green, turning to red- 
brown ; stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; filaments lanceolate, 
subequal ; style as long as the ovary. 
Coast Reaion: Knysna Div. ; hills near Plettenberg Bay, Pappe ! Ui 
Div. ; near the Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 4208! Ecklon and Zeyher, 939! 942! 
1066 ! 
CzntRaL Reeion: Somerset Div.; on the Bosch Berg, 3000-4500 ft., 
MacQwan, 1848 | 2067! 
Eastzrn Rxeion: Tembuland; Tabase, near Bazeia, 2500 ft., Baur, 393! 
56. 0. aciphyllum (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1874, 365) ; bulb not 
seen ; leaves 3, subterete, erect, rigid, glabrous, a foot long, dilated 
for several inches at the base, and clasping the stem ; peduncle longer 
than the leaves; raceme lax, 3-4 in. long ; pedicels ascending, lower 
Zin. long; bracts ovate, acuminate, as long as the pedicels; perianth 
& in. long; segments with a distinct 3-nerved red-brown keel ; 
stamens 2 the length of the segments; filaments alternately linear 
and lanceolate ; style very short. 
CENTRAL Recion: Colesberg, Shaw ! : 
57. 0. graminifolium (Thunb, Prodr. 61); bulb globose, 4] in. 
diam. ; outer tunies produced far above its neck ; leaves 4~6, sub- 
terete, glabrous, }~1 ft. long; raceme lax, 2-3 in. long ; pedicels 
ascending, lower 3-3 in. long; bracts ovate, acuminate, as long as 
the pedicels; perianth white, 3 in, long; segments with a rather in- 
distinct 3-nerved green or reddish-brown keel; stamens 32 the length 
of the perianth ; filaments slightly flattened; style as long as the 
ovary. Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 313; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
vii. 526; Kunth, Enum. iv. 358; Bakerin Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 
274. O. Rudolphi, Jacq. Eclog. i. 31, 151, t. 20; Roem. et Schultes, 
Syst. Veg. vii. 525. O. tenuifolium, Red. Lil. vi. t. 312, non Gussone. 
O. rupestre, Rudolphi in Schrad. Journ. 1799, ii. 281, non Linn, fil. 
O. juncifolium, Guwl. in Bot. Mag. t. 972, non Jacq. O. dregeanum, 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 351. 0. canaliculatum, Lagas. Gen, 14; Kunth, 
Enum. iv. 370, 
wa ity, Thunberg ! ? 
Conse aoa’ Gee Weta psn 1681! Paarl Div.; Klein Drakenstein 
Mountains, under 600 ft., Drége, 1608! Tulbagh Div.; New Kloof, near 
Talbagh, Zeyher, 1682! Winterhoek Mountain, Pappe ! 
Canes Rosso : Murraysburg Div. ; Koudeveld Mountains, 5000 ft., Bolus, 
1490! 
Eastern Reoion : Natal; Inanda, Wood, 658! 
