512 Littacexz (Baker). [Ornithogalum. 
58. 0. juncifolium (Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 46, t. 90); bulb large, 
globose; leaves 12-20, subulate, glabrous, under a foot long ; scape 
flexuose, about a foot long; raceme moderately dense, 3-1 ft. long ; 
pedicels, ascending or spreading, lower 3 in. long; bracts lanceolate- 
acuminate, much shorter than the pedicels; perianth white, 3 in. 
long ; segments distinctly keeled ; stamens % the length of the 
perianth; filaments alternately linear and lanceolate ; style } in. long. 
Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 123; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 524; 
Kunth, Enum. iv. 858; Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. xiii. 274. 
Sovrn Arrica: without locality. 
Known to me only from Jacquin’s figure. May be only a robust garden-grown 
form of O. graminifolium. 
59. 0. humifusum (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1874, i, 500); bulb 
globose, 3~$ in. diam., copiously bulbilliferous ; leaves 1-3, linear or 
lanceolate, finely pilose or glabrous, varying in length from one to 
nine inches ; peduncle slender, 1-9 in. long ; raceme lax, few-flowered; 
pedicels ascending, lower 1-2 in. long ; bracts ovate cuspidate, as long 
as or shorter than the pedicels ; perianth white, 1-1 in. long; seg- 
ments distinctly or indistinctly keeled with green ; stamens 3 the 
length of the perianth; alternate filaments linear and lanceolate ; 
style shorter than the ovary. 
Sovutn Arnica: without locality, cultivated specimen ! : 
CznTraL Region : Somerset Div. ; rocky ledges near the Little Fish River, 
2500 ft., MacOwan, 1838 ! 1897! 
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in March, 1874, received from 
Mr. Wilson Saunders. 
60. 0. Bergii (Schlecht. in Linnwa, 1826, 253); bulb globose, 
4-} in. diam. ; leaves 2-4, clasping the base of the stem for an inch 
or more, linear, spreading or ascending, 1-3 in. long, densely pilose ; 
peduncle slender, 3-1 ft. long; raceme moderately dense, few- or 
many-flowered, 1-3 in. long ; pedicels ascending, lower 3—} in. long ; 
bracts lanceolate from an ovate base, nearly or quite as long as the 
pedicels; perianth white, 3-2 in. long ; segments oblong-lanceolate, dis- 
tinctly keeled with red-brown ; stamens more than half as long as the 
perianth; inner filaments much dilated at the base, sometimes distinctly 
trieuspidate ; style aslong as the ovary. Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. 
vii. 507, 1697 ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 350; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xiii. 275. O. miniatum, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 223, nen Jacq. 
QO. ciliotum, Eckl, ec Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 1697, non 
Linn. fil. 
Coast Recion: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 572! Lion Mountain, 
Schlechter, 133! Cape Flats, Harvey, 872! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountains, 
Drége, 1506a! Drakenstein Mountains, near Wellington, Rehmann, 2274! 
Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh Waterfall, 800 ft., Bolus, 5265! Winterhoek 
Mountain, 2500 ft., Bodkin in Herb. Bolus, 5428! New Kloof, Zeyher, 1682! 
Swellendam Div.; bill near Swellendam, Kitching ! Mossel Bay Div. ; east side 
of Ganritz River, Burchell, 6447! near Uitenhage, Burchell. 4274! 
