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filaments. Style but little exsortocl from the tube, the ascending 

 falcate branches -^" in. long. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; Port Elizabeth. Described from a plant sent by 

 Mr. Jno. Wilson that flowered at Kew in 1868. Recedes from typical Geiaaorhiza 

 in the direction of Acida)ithera. 



28. G. MINIMA Baker in Journ. Bot. 187G, 239. — Corm not seen. 

 Leaves 2-3, basal, terete, firm, falcate, glabrous, 1-1^ in. long. 

 Stem very slender, simple, leafless, an inch long. Flowers 1-2 ; 

 spathe-valves oblong-lanceolate, ^ in. long, green tinged with red. 

 Perianth with a straight tube, ^ in. long, and a limb not more th;)n 

 half as long with oblong white segments. Anthers linear, Vj in. 

 long. Style-branches short. 



Hab. Namaqualand ; Modderfonteins berg, alt. 4000 — 5000 ft., Dr^ge 

 2032 I 



29. G. GEMiNATA E. Meyer in herb. Drege. — Corm not seen. 

 Leaves 3-4, all distantly superposed and sheathing the stem, firm, 

 setaceous, glabrous, 3-6 in. long. Stems slender, 6-10 in. long, 

 simple or deeply forked ; flowers 1-2 to a branch ; outer spathe- 

 valve oblong-lanceolate, green, ^ in. long. Perianth with a blue 

 funnel-shaped tube, ^-| in. long ; segments oblong, ^ in. long. 

 Anthers ^ in. long. Style-branches not overtopping the anthers. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; south-western provinces, Drege ! 



80. G. ExcisA Ker in Konig et Sims, Ann. i. 223. Ixia excisa 

 Linn. fil. ; Ker in Bot. Mag. t. 584. /. ovata Burm. Wcilwa 

 excisa Burm. — Corm globose, ^ in. diam. ; tunics brown, crustaceous, 

 tipped with short cusps. Basal leaves 2-3, oblong or lanceolate, 

 firm, glabrous, obtuse or acute, -^-l in. long, copiously dotted with 

 black. Stems flexuose, 2-6 in. long, simple, rarely forked. Flowers 

 2-5 in a lax spike ; outer spathe-valve oblong, green, J-^ in. long. 

 Perianth with a straight tube ^-f in. long, and oblong spreading 

 segments ^-^ in. long, the inner white, the outer claret-purple 

 outside. Anthers ^ in. long. Style overtopping the anthers ; 

 branches short, spreading. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; south-western provinces. 



42. DiERAMA K. Koch. 



Perianth with a short cylindrical tube, dilated at the throat and 

 oblong subequal segments. Stamens inserted at the throat of the 

 perianth-tube ; filaments short ; anthers linear, basifixed. Ovanj 

 oblong, 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style exserted from the 

 perianth-tube, with short spreading clavate entire branches. Capsule 

 oblong, small, membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. Seeds small, 

 globose or angled by pressure. — Hootstock a large corm. Leaves 

 long, linear, rigid. Floivers in panicled spikes ; spathe-valves lanceo- 

 late, membranous, not lacerated. 



1. D. PENDULA Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 99. D. oisi- 

 fiorum K. Koch et Bouche. D. cjipulijiora and iijiiea lOatt. Ixia 

 pendula Linn. fil. Sparaxis pendiila Ker in Bot. Beg. t. 1360. 

 Watsonia palustris Pers. — Corm large, globose ; tunics of parallel 



