514 Liniacez (Baker). [ Ornithogalum. 
Barberton, 4500 ft., Galpin, 1147! Lomati Valley, near Barberton, in swamps, 
4000 ft., Galpin, 1054! 
Basten acre : Tembuland ; Bazeia Mountain, 2500-3000 ft., Baur, 571! 
Griqualand East ; near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 2119! Natal; Inanda, Wood, 
243! 1073! near Darban, Wood, 139! 4080 ! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb, Norm. 
Austr. Afr., 1012! 
Also in Tropical Africa. 
65. 0. chloranthum (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1875, iv. 323); bulb 
ovoid, 14~2 in. diam. ; leaves 3-4, suberect, linear, acuminate, bright 
green, glabrous, channelled down the face, 12-16 in. long, } in. broad ; 
- peduncle terete, glabrous, 14-2 ft. long ; flowers about 20 in an oblong 
raceme 3-4 in. long, 11 in. diam.; pedicels patent or erecto-patent, 
lower 3-2 in. long; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, longer than the 
pedicels, protruding conspicuously beyond the buds; _perianth 
greenish, } in. long; segments oblong, obtuse, with a 3-nerved keel 
filling the central third; stamens nearly as long as the perianth; 
inner filaments lanceolate, outer linear; ovary globose ; style slender, 
3 in. long, 
Sovrn Argica: without locality. 
Described from a living plant sent to Kew by Mr. Wilson Saunders, which 
flowered in July, 1875. 
66. 0. virens (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 814); bulb globose, 1-1} in. 
diam. ; leaves 5-6, linear, acuminate, glabrous, 12-2 ft. long, $-1 in, 2 
broad low duwn; peduncle slender, a foot or more long; raceme 
dense, 3-4 in. long; pedivels ascending, lower 2 in. long ; bracts 
linear-subulate ; perianth greenish-white, +4 in. long; segments 
broadly keeled with green; stamens 2 the length of the perianth; 
alternate filaments quadrate at the base; style ~, in. long. Roem. 
et Schultes. Syst. Veg. vii. 507; Kunth, Enum. iv. 358; Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 275. 
Eastern Reoion: Delagoa Bay, Forbes! 
Habit and leaf of O. Eckloni, from which it differs by its stamens. 
87. 0. scilloides (Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. i. 46, t. 88); bulb ovoid, 
2-3 in. diam.; leaves 5-6, lanceolate-lorate, acuminate, glabrous, 
1}-2 ft. long, 1-14 in. broad low down; peduncle robust, terete, 
1}-2 ft. long ; raceme dense, a foot or more long ; pedicels ascending, 
lower i in. long; bracts lanceolate-setaceous, 3-3 in. long, projecting 
beyond the buds ; perianth white, 4 in. long; segments keeled with 
green ; stamens $ the length of the perianth; filaments linear and 
——— _ i oe seat hiey Sp. Plant, ii. 119; Cav. Deser. 
; Roem, €8, : » Vii, 522; num. iv. 
858; Baker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xi. 376. 
Sour Arzica: without locality, No specimen at Kew. 
88. 0. longebracteatum (Jacq. Hort. Vind. iii. t. 29); bulb 
2-3 in. diam.; leaves 5-6, lorate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 
13-2 ft. long, 1-11 in. broad low down ; peduncle sell: terete, 
