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corolla lactea 0-4 cm. longa, glabra, antice usque ad medium fissa, 

 apice quadrilobo, lobis oblongis ; antberis subqnadrato-oblongis, 

 basi apiceque excisis; stylo filiformi, glabro, basi incrassato, apicem 

 corolla} vulgo ^quante ; fructu snbglobosa, aclieniis, vix asqualibus 

 ovati obtusis, marginibiis incurvis, intus excavatis, medio longi- 

 tudiualiter carina ornatis, c. 0*2 cm. longis. 



In regione austro-occidentali : In arenosis prope Clanwilliam, 

 alt. c. 350 ped., Aug. 1896 (exemplar unicum) ; E. Schlechter. 

 In sabulosis Peninsula Capensis, anno 1897 ; Capt. Wolley Dod. 



Unfortunately I have lost the .ticket of Capt. AVolley Dod's 

 plant ; however, I remember that it came from the Cape Peninsula. 

 The nearest ally to our species seems //. repens Jarocz,, with 

 which it agrees in its general appearance, although it grows more 

 upright. The long filiform style seems a constant and good mark 

 of the plant. 



80. Romulea Thodei, sp. n. Herba pusilla, bulbosa, vix 

 spitham^a ; cormo ovoideo tunicis tenuibus apice fissis, dense 

 obtecto, c. 1 cm. diametiente ; foliis paucis (in specimiuibus visis 2) 

 lineari-setaceis, erectis rigidiusculis, 10-20 cm. longis ; scapis fili- 

 formibus glabris, vix ancipitibus, foliis brevioribus ; spath^e valvis 

 lanceolatis acutis margine angiiste membranaceo-marginatis, c. 

 1-5 cm. longis; perigonio subcampanulato, c. 1-5 cm. longo, seg- 

 mentis oblongo-ellipticis subacutis, tubo 0*5 cm. longo, infundibulari ; 

 antberis linearibus, basi breviter sagittatis, 0*3 cm. longis, dimidium 

 gegmentorum vix excedentibus, filamentis, subfiliformibus liberis, 

 dimidio inferiore minute subauriculato-puberulis, tubo medio fere 

 affixis ; stylo filiformi, glabro, 1 cm. longo, brachiis filiformibus, 

 tertia parte apice bifidis, 1*5 mm. longis, apices antherarum vix 

 attingentibus ; ovario ovoideo glabro. 



In regione austro-orientali : In arenosis humidis, in planitie 

 mentis " Mont aux Sources " in terra Orange Free State, alt. 

 c. 9200 ped., Jan. 1896 ; J. Thode. 



As yet I have not heard of any other Boimdea in South Africa 

 as far east as the above ; it is allied to B. rosea Baker, from the 

 South-western Cape Colony, but distinguished by fewer leaves and 

 the proportionately longer corolla-tubes. Whether constantly the 

 number of leaves is only two, I cannot say with certainty ; my 

 three specimens only bear two each. 



The genus Romulea and also Lachenalia badly want revision ; 

 their species of late have been extensively confused. 



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TiLiA coRDATA Miller, Dict.no. 1. (1768). — This plant seems 

 to have been frequently misunderstood. Dr. Simonkai, in his 

 revision of this genus (Magyar Ak. Math. 6s Termesz. Kozl. xxii. p. 

 327, 1888), has followed Maximowicz in considering T. cordata as 

 coming from Amurland and Mandschuria, and apparently restricted 

 to these districts. This seems a somewhat erratic view to take, as 



