7G HANDBOOK OF IRIBEJE. 



1. H. LONGiFOLiA Vent. Decacl. G. Monea Jle.niosa Linu. fil.; 

 Ker iu Bot. Mag. t. 695. M. loiu/ifului Pers. Ixia lont/ifolia Jacq. 

 Hort. Vinci, iii. 47, t. 90. PUaitia Jiava Herb. — Corm ^-1 in. 

 diam. ; tunics witli hard black parallel ribs. Produced leaves 1-2, 

 narrow linear, overtopping tbe flowers. Stem slender, erect, 1-1^ ft. 

 long including the panicled inflorescence ; spathes cylindrical, 

 1-1^ in. long, Expanded perianth 1 in. diam. Style-branches 

 J in. loug. Capsule clavate, ^-| in. long, 



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



2. H. viRGATA Sweet, Hort. Brit. edit. 2, 498. Moreea vinjfttn 

 Jacq. Ic. t. 228. I.da vinjata Willd. — Very near 11. lonyifolia, from 

 wliich it differs by its slender subterete leaves. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; south-western provinces. 



14. Crocus Linn/'- 



Perianth funnel-shaped, erect, with a long tube and G subequal 

 imbricated segments. Stai)ie)is inserted at the throat of the tube, 

 shorter than the segments ; filaments filiform ; anthers linear, 

 basifixed. Ocnri/ 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed; style long, 

 filiform ; stigmas entire or little or much divided. Capsule oblong, 

 membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds subglobose. — liootstock 

 an annular corm, with membranous, fibrous or honeycombed tunics. 

 Leaves multifarious, narrow linear. I'xisol s/mthe arising direct from 

 the corm inside the leaves present or absent. I'lv/ier sputhe 

 1 -flowered, membranous. Flowers vernal or autumnal, very various 

 iu colour. 



Section Holostigma. — Style-branches entire. 



Vernal, with yellow flowers . . Sp. 1-9. 



Vernal, with lilac or w^hite flowers . Sp. 10-83. 

 Autumnal ...... Sp. 34-39. 



Section Odontostigma. — Style-branches fimbriated at the top, 

 or once forked. 



Vernal Sp. 40-42. 



Autumnal Sp. 43-47. 



Section Schizostigma. — Style-branches cut into several capillary 

 divisions. 



Vernal Sp. 48-53. 



Autumnal ...... Sp. 54-G5. 



Imperfectly known .... Sp. GG. 



* Condensed, with many alterations and additions, from my Synopsis in 

 the ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' for 1873. Since that date a large number of 

 additional and lost forms have been brought into cultivation, and all the 

 species have been carefully described and figured, with full dissections and on a 

 uniform scale, by Mr. George Maw, F.R.S., whose model monograph should 

 be studied by all who are interested iu the genus who can possibly get access 

 to it. 



