PLATE 2710. 
BABIANA SPATHACEA, Gawler, 
Irtmpaces. ‘Tribe Ix1em. 
B. spathacea, Gawler ex Sims in Bot. Mag. sub t. 539 (nec Bot. 
Mag. t. 638) ; “goal: in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vi. p. 108. Sean spathaceus, 
Linn. f. Supp p- 96; Thunb. Diss. no. 55; Thunb. Prod. p.9 ; 
Thunb. Fl. va i. p. 208, et ed. Schultes, p. 52. 
Folia linearia vel lineari-lanceolata, acuta, subplicata, molliter piloso- 
ot eis ars vel interdum subglabra, 4-9 poll. longa, 2-6 lin. lata. 
S ecta, stricta, simplex vel basi pauciramosa, 2-3 poll. longa, 
sabe multiflora. Bractee 9-15 lin. longze, 3 lin. late, lanceolate, 
longe aristato-acuminate, complicate, yaline, uninerves, 
nec striate, glabree, albze, nervo in aristam rufo-brunneam excurrente. 
Bracteole 7-8 lin. longer, 14-2 lin. late, bracteis similes. Peri cose 
erectum, glabrum ; tubus i3 poll. longus, Been apice ampliatu 
procurvus, purpureus ; lobi subsequales, lin. longi, 14 lin. lati, 
oblongi, obtusi, albi, inferiores basi ae notati. Stamina exserta ; 
anthers 2-3 lin nge. Ovariwm 13-15 lin. longum, trigono- -turbi- 
natum, glabrum ; — exsertus, filiformis, apice breviter trifidus 
stigmata res di lata 
Soutu Arrica: Calvinia Division; in Bokkeland (Onder Bokke- 
veld) and the dry regions of Hantam, Thunberg; Brand Vle ey, 
Johanssen, 14. 
This is one of many eed South African plants found by the 
older snllestiirs which hav e long escaped the notice of subsequent 
travellers. I 
interest, the more so as Mr. Johanssen also collected Hriosphera 
known from the specimens collecte un 
abiana spathacea, Gawl., is one of the m ne distinct species of the 
genus, the long dense spike, long-tubed flowers, and membranous hyaline 
bracts serving to distinguish it at once from all o Unfortunately 
the name B. spat was give awler to two distinct plants. 
When the genus Babia originally established at the place quoted 
above (which reference has been overlooked by all subsequent Shae 
