Ornithogalum. ] LILIACEE (Baker). 515 
13-2 ft. long; raceme dense upwards, z ft. or more long; pedicels 
ascending or spreading, lower $~12 in, long; bracts lanceolate- 
setaceous, 3-1 in, long, projecting conspicuously beyond the buds ; 
perianth whitish, 2 in. long; segments broadly keeled with green ; 
stamens 3 the length of the perianth; alternate filaments linear and 
lanceolate; style 3 in. long. Wélld. Sp. Plant. ii. 120; Red. Lil. 
t. 120; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 521 ; Kunth, Enum. iv. 
357; Baker in Journ, Linn. Soe. xiii, 277. 0. bracteatum, Thunb. 
Prodr. 62; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 314. 
South Arrica: without locality, Thunberg / 
Coast Recion: Riversdale Div.; Vet River, Gill / Queenstown Div. ; Zwart 
Kei River, 4000 ft., Drage, 8532b! 
CrentTRaL RxGion: Somerset Div. ; in woods ac the foot of the Bosch Berg, 
3000 ft., MacOwan, 1844! 
69. 0. candatum (Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 442; edit, 2, ii. 261); bulb 
large, ovoid; leaves 5-6, lorate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrons, 
13-2 ft. long, 1-11 in, broad low down; peduncle stout, erect, 
1}~3 ft. long; raceme dense, 3-1 ft. long; pedicels ascending, lower 
= in. long; bracts lanceolate-sefaceous, 3- in. long, projecting 
beyond the buds; perianth white, } in. long; segments distinctly 
keeled with green; stamens § the length of the perianth ; filaments 
alternately lanceolate and quadrate at the base ; style 74—} in. long. 
Jacq. Collect. ii. 315; Ic. ii. 19, t. 423; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 125; 
Bot. Mag. t. 805 ; Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 520 ; Kunth, 
Enum. iv. 357; Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 262; Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xiii. 276. O. Massoni, Gmel. Syst. i. 551. 
Sousa Arnica: without locality, cultivated specimens ! 
70. O. ovatum (Thunb. Prodr. ); ag hay mss ee 
oblong, subaeute, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, in. long ; m 
hickenad: BORE chit slender ; raceme dense, 6-20-flowered, 
1-1} in. long ; pedicels ascending, lower { in. long ; bracts lanceo- 
late, as long as the pedicels; perianth white, } in. long; — 
linear-oblong, distinctly keeled with green ; stamens 3 the lengt Da 
the perianth ; filaments subequal, lanceolate ; style ; in. long. / 
Cap. edit. Schult. 315; Willd. Sp. Plant. ii. 117 ; Roem, et gs es, 
Syst. Veg. vii. 528; Kunth, Enum. iv. 359; Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc, xiii, 278. 
Souts Arnica: without locality, Thunberg / 
71. 0. crenulatum (Linn. fil. Suppl. 198); bulb oblong, 3 in. 
diam. ; leaves 2, aren obtuse, or subacute, subcoriaceous, FEM 
1-12 in. long, rugose on the margins ; peduncle stiffly — “m 
long ; raceme lax, 4—8-flowered ; pedicels ascending, — + in. 
long; bracts deltoid-cuspidate, nearly or quite _ as a 
pedicels ; perianth white, } in. long; segments kee. ~ a ; 
stamens 2 the length of the perianth ; filaments og Fs ge = 
Thunb. Prodr. 62; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 315; Willd. Sp. . 
