470 CXL. LiLiACE^ (baker). [ScMzobasts. 



3-lobed. Capsule globose, dehiscing loculicidally. Seeds 1-3, angled ; 

 testa lax, black ; albumen fleshy ; embryo nearly as long as the 

 albumen. — Rootstock a comparatively large bulb. Leaves all basal, not 

 contemporary with the flowers. Stems much branched, straight or 

 flexuose. Flowers minute, white, racemose or terminal on the 

 branchlets. 



Species 5, the others South African. 



1. S. angolensis^ leaker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 255. 

 Bulb globose, 1-1 J in. diam. ; outer tunics brown, membranous. 

 Leaves unknown. Peduncle slender, naked, straight, erect, J ft. long. 

 Panicle corymbose, 1 ft. long ; branches and branchlets long, straight, 

 slender ; pedicels articulated at the apex ; bracts minute, deltoid. 

 Perianth ^ in. long; segments oblong, white with a brown keel. 

 Filaments slightly flattened ; anthers shorter than the filaments. 



ZiO'wer Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; in rocky ground, 2400-3800 ft., 

 Welwitsch, 3866 ! 



9. ERIOSPERMUM, Jacq. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 786. 



Perianth campanulate, polyphyllous, persistent ; segments oblong or 

 linear-oblong, subequal, spreading. Stamens 6, shorter than the perianth, 

 attached to the base of the segments ; filaments filiform or flattened ; 

 anthers oblong, small, basifixed, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sessile 

 or subsessile, globose, 3-celled ; ovules 2 or few in a cell ; style short, 

 subulate ; stigma capitate, minute. Capsule with 3 persistent spreading 

 or reflexed loculicidal valves. Seeds oblong-triquetrous, densely hairy ; 

 albumen fleshy ; embryo long, cylindrical. — Rootstock a large irregularly- 

 shaped tuber. Leaves usually solitary and not contemporary with 

 the flowers, ovate or lanceolate. Inflorescence a simple raceme ; 

 pedicels articulated at the apex ; bracts minute, membranous. Flowers 

 small, white or yellow; segments with a 1 -nerved brown keel. 

 Species 50, the others all South African. 



Pedicels long. 



Peduncle long. Perianth \-\ in. long . . . 1. E. elation. 



Peduncle short. Perianth smaller. 



Leaf linear . . . . . . . . 2. -E". stenophyllum. 



Leaf lanceolate. 



Leaves not contemporary with flowers 

 Leaves contemporary with flowers. 



Stamens short ...... 



Stamens more than half as lonj^ as the perianth 

 Leaf oblanceolate ...... 



Leaf cordate-orbicular ...... 



Leaf unknown ....... 



Pedicels short. 



Leaf linear ........ 



Leaf lanceolate ....... 



Leaf oblong-lanceolate ...... 



Leaf oblong. 



