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deltoid-acuminate. Stamens J in. long ; filaments free upwards ; 

 anthers oblong, with parallel cells. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; central karoo region, Biirchell 1599 ! 



7. F. Welwitschii Baker. — Stem slender, under a foot long, 

 branched below the middle, bearing 4 clusters of flowers on long 

 erect peduncles. Stem-leaves linear, distantly superposed, the 

 longest 3-4 in. long. Spathes cylindrical, 1-^ in. long ; outer valve 

 shorter than the next. Flower bright yellow ; segments subequal, 

 an inch long, with a spreading panduriform acute blade copiously 

 dotted with brown up to the tip, longer than the broad claw. 

 Staminal column shorter than the claw ; anthers oblong, just over- 

 topped by the laciniated bifid tips of the style-arms. 



Hab. Angola, Welwitscli. Described from a plant flowered by Mr. Wilson 

 Saunders in July, 1871, which was drawn for the Refugium, but never published. 

 The drawing is now in the Kew collection. 



12. HoMERiA Vent. 

 Pman«/i-segments free to the base, subequal, obovate-cuneate, 

 connivent in a cup, then spreading. Filaments united in a cylin- 

 drical tube ; anthers linear. Ovary cylindrical, 3-celled ; ovules 

 crowded, superposed ; style subulate, with three small flattened 

 emarginate branches, papillose round their edges. Capsule clavate. 

 3-valved at the tip. Seeds small, globose or angled by pressure. — 

 Rootstock a tunicated corm. Produced leaf usually single, over- 

 topping the flowers. Clusters one or few, the side ones shortly 

 peduncled. Spathes cylindrical, with few successive fugitive yellow 

 or fulvous flowers. 



Perianth-segments with a large blotch in the middle Sp. 1-2. 

 Perianth-segments not blotched in the middle . Sp. 3-6. 



1. H. ELEGANS Sweet Hort. Brit. 498. Mora:a eJejians Jacq. 

 Hort. Schoen. t. 12. M. spicata Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 1983. Sisy- 

 rinchhim clegans Willd. llovieria spicata Klatt, ex parte. — Corm 

 globose, ^ in. diam. ; tunics brown, rigid. Produced leaf single, 

 linear, rigid, a foot or more long. Stem a foot or more long ; 

 clusters 1-4 ; spathes cylindrical, 2 in. long ; outer valve acute, 

 much shorter than the next. Perianth-segments an inch long, 

 bright yellow, the outer with an orange-brown or greenish blotch in 

 the centre. Column as long as the anthers. Capsule clavate, fin. 

 long. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; south-western provinces. First gathered by Thunberg. 



2. H. MAcuLATA Klatt in Linn, xxxiv. 627. — Corm globose; 

 tunics thick, cancellate. Produced leaf single, narrow linear, 

 overtopping the stem. Stem ^-1 ft. long; spathes cylindrical, 

 2-2^ in. long. Perianth-segments an inch long, yellow with a 

 greenish claw and a semilunar greenish blotch above the base, the 

 outer i in. broad, obtuse, the inner narrower and acute. Capsule 

 cylindrical, ^ in. long. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; south-western district, Eckton d: ZeijJter 38, 259. 



3. II. coLLiNA Vent. Decad. 5. Murcca rullina Thuub. ; Jacq. 



