Plate 80. 

 KLATTIA Stokoei. 



Cape Province. 



Ibidaceae. Tribe Sisyrinchieae. 

 Klattia, B. Kr. ; Benth. et Hook f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 702. 



Klattia Stokoei, L. Guthrie in Annals Bolus Herb. vol. iii. p. 75. 



The discovery of this remarkable plant by Mr. T. P. 

 Stokoe on the Hottentot's Holland Mountains, near Somerset 

 West, adds another species to one of the South African 

 endemic genera, which hitherto has been regarded as 

 monotypic. Klattia partita, found by Bowie, Thunberg, and 

 Burchell, is a rare plant, and is only known from the Lange- 

 bergen near Swellendam. It is figured by Marloth in " The 

 Flora of South Africa," t. 41. Our present species differs 

 from K. partita in the more spreading leaves, the very much 

 shorter perianth-tube, the narrower segments which have a 

 red limb, and the larger capsule. The genus Klattia is closely 

 related to Witsenia, which we figured on plate 34, but is 

 distinguished from this genus by having a very short perianth - 

 tube and long segments, much longer than the tube. Klattia 

 was named in honour of Dr. F. W. Klatt, a teacher at Ham- 

 burg, who published several memoirs on the Iridaceae. 



Specimens are preserved in the National Herbarium, 

 Pretoria (Herb.. No. 1436). 



Description : — Inflorescence about 8-flowered. Spathe-valves 

 2 ; the larger 11 '5 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, green and lanceolate 

 above, red and strongly keeled below, subacute, glabrous ; the 

 smaller red 5 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, rounded above, keeled 

 on the back with the keel produced into a beak 7 mm. long. 

 Floral bracts white 3 cm. long, keeled, acute. Perianth-segments 

 divided almost to the base 5*7 cm. long, filiform below, 

 broadened above into a linear portion 1 mm. broad. Filaments 

 45 mm. long, filiform ; anthers 1 mm. long, linear, sagittate 

 at the base. Ovary 2 mm. long, 2 mm. in diameter, obovate 



