524 LILIAcEz (Baker). [ Dipidaz. 
Van. 7, gracilis (Baker) ; leaves narrow; flower solitary. Melanthium gracile, 
Desv. in Lam. Encye. iv, 29. 
Var, 3, garnotiana (Baker, loc. cit.); leaves lanceolate; perianth-segments 
white, distinctly foveolate at the base of the blade. Melanthium garnotianum, 
Kunth, Enum. iv, 157. 
Var. ¢, rubicunda (Baker); differs from the last by its reddish perianth- 
segments. Melanthium rubicundum, Willd, in Ges. Naturf, Fr. Berl. Mag. ii. 22 
Schlecht. in Linnza, i. 85; Kunth, Enum, iv. 157. 
Var. (, marginata (Baker); lower leaf short, ovate or ovate-oblong ; 
perianth-segments distinctly foveolate on each side at the base of the blade. 
Melanthium marginatum, Schlecht. in Linnza, i. 84. M. schlechtendalianum, 
Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 1546. 
Sourn AFRica: without locality; Var. a, Sonnerat. Var. 8, Bergius. Var. y, 
Herb. Thouin, Var. 8, Garnot. Var. ¢, Lichtenstein. 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div. ; hills near Cape Town, Thunberg. Table Moun 
tain, Ecklon, 508! Camp Ground, Bolus, 3700! Camps Bay, MacO-van, 
2557! MacOwan and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 300! Paarl Div.; 
between Paarl and Lady Grey Railway Bridge, Drége! Tulbagh Div., Thom! near 
Tulbagh Waterfall, 1500 ft., MacOwanand Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 1892! 
near Ceres Road, MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr., 1563! Stellenbosch, Sanderson, 
963! Swellendam, Kennedy! Riversdale Div. ; near Zoetmelks River, 4urchell, 
6689! Var. 8, Cape Div.; sea-shore and near Riet Vallei, Zeyher, 4300! 
Simons Bay, Wright! sand-dunes near Cape Town, Bolus, 3758! Worcester 
Div. ? Cooper, 3204! Var. ¢, near Tulbagh, Lichtenstein, Caledon, Zeyher! 
2. D. triquetra (Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 447); corm 
small, globose ; tunics brown; stem simple, 1-12 ft. long ; leaves 3, 
not ciliated, lower placed near the base of the stem, subulate-trique- 
trous, 1-1} ft. long, two upper contiguous, placed near the base of 
the spike ; uppermost very short, lanceolate-amplexicaul ; spike 1-6 
in. long; perianth-segments } in, long, 3 in. broad, with numerous 
brown veins and two purplish nectariferous blotehes at the base of 
the blade ; anthers minute, purplish; filaments 3 in. long; ovary 
turbinate, the cells not keeled acutely on the back; styles slender, 
zz in. long. Melanthium triquetrum, Linn. fil. Suppl. 218 ; Thunb. 
Prodr, 67; Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 340; Schlecht. in Linnea, i. 86; 
Roem. et Schultes, Syst. Veg. vii. 1547; Kunth, Enum. iv. 157. 
M. junceum, Jacq. Ic. ii. 21, t. 451; Sims in Bot, Mag.t.558; Lodd. 
Bot, Cab. t. 978. Dipidax rosea, Salish. in Trans, Hort. Soc. i. 330. 
Coast Region : Clanwilliam, Mader, 109! Cape Div.; Cape Flats, MacOwan 
and Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr. 1s 
962! Caledon Div., Zeyher ! Afr., 299! Rogers! Stellenbosch, Sanderson, 
XLV. ORNITHOGLOSSUM, Salisb. 
Perianth poly phyllous, persistent ; segments equal, lanceolate, 
spreading or reflexing, unguiculate, with a neetariferous foveole at the 
top of the convolute claw. Stamens 6, attached to the base of the 
perianth-segments ; filaments filiform; anthers oblong, versatile, 
dorsifixed, dehiscing extrorsely near the margin. Ovary oblong, 
sessile, 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; styles 3, long, subulate, 
stigmatose at the apex. Capsule large, oblong, finally loculicidally 
