28 VII. IRIDE.E, [Lapeyrousia 



3. L, cyanescens Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, I.e. (nomen), in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, I.e., Handb. Irid., I.e.; Klatt, I.e., p. 190. 



Psilosij^hon cyaneseens Welw. ex Baker in Journ. Linn. See, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers milk-white, soon becoming bluish-violet, especi- 

 ally on the tube and back of the lobes, very elegant and having a very 

 sweet smell especially in the evening. In high boggy places near 

 streams in the Serra de Oiahoia near Humpata. In fl. and fr. April 

 18(50. No. 1553. Rocky places near LopoUo, March 18('.0. Coll.Cakp.GI. 



4. L. fragrans Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, I.e. (nomen), in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc, I.e., Handb. Irid., I.e. ; Klatt, I.e., p. 191. 



Psilosiphon fragrans Welw. ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — An erect herb 1 ft. high, stem leafy from the middle, 

 leaves linear, erect, coriaceous, rigidulous. Corolla white, becoming 

 violet in drying, tube long, lobes campanulate, erect, linear, rather 

 obtuse, peduncles rigid, widely ascending. Plentiful but rarely flower- 

 ing in stony and rocky sunny places near Lopollo. In fl. in the middle 

 of Dec. 1859. No. 1552. 



Scarcely separable from the last species. 



5. L. odoratissima Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc, I.e. (nomen), in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, I.e., p. 273, t. 36, figs. 2 & 3, Handb. Irid. 

 p. 173 ; Klatt, I.e. 



Psilosipho7i odoratissima Welw. ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — An erect herb scarcely 1 ft. high, with a conical bulb, 

 clothed with reddish-brown closely reticulate tunics, base broadly 

 truncate, margin broken into fibrils, stem naked below, then distich- 

 ously leaved ; leaves deeply grooved, at first sheathing the flowers ; 

 corolla with a long tube, lobes lanceolate, acuminate, up to time of 

 opening campanulately erect ; corolla completely white, smell very 

 pleasant. Plentiful in sandy rocky thickets near Lopollo. In fl. 

 11 Dec. 1859. No. 1551. 



5. GLADIOLUS L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 709. 



1. G. gregarius Welw. ex Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc xvi. p. 174 

 (nomen), in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. i. p. 268, Handb. Irid. 

 p. 210 ; Klatt in Durand & Schinz, Consp. Y\. Afr. v. p. 218. 



PuNGO Andonco. — Growing csespitosely with 4 to 10 bulbs closely 

 crowded ; flowers milk-white, with two small violet spots on the inside 

 of the lip. Plentiful in rather lofty rocky places of the Serra de 

 Pedras de Guinga. In fl. Jan. and March 1857. No. 1528. 



2. G. laxiflorus Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, I.e. (nomen), in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, I.e., Handb. Irid. p. 211 ; Klatt, I.e., p. 219. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers a very bright rose-purple. Very plentiful in 

 marshy deep-grassed meadows, especially round ponds near the river 

 of Lopollo. In fl. and fr. Dec. 1859. No. 1536. 



3. G. brevicaulis Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, I.e. (nomen), in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, I.e., p. 267, Handb. Irid., I.e.; Klatt, I.e., p. 244. 



HuiLLA. — Tunics of corm densely reticulate, stem simple, clothed 

 with short long-sheathing leaves, radical leaves very narrow, appearing 

 late, perianth violet-purple, three lower lobes obcuneate, discs white 

 with a central deep purjile lance-shaped mark. Plentiful in rather 

 damp sandy short-grassed meadows and pastures, between Lopollo and 

 Humpata. In fl. Dec. 1859 and Jan. 18G0. No. 1534. 



