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KEY TO FLORA OF CAPE PENINSULA 
Flowers yellow or yellowish. 
Bulb scales not gummy ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, up 
to 4 Is. long ; tube of corolla narrow. 
Eckloniana, Presl. 
Bulb scales gummy. 
Peduncles usually shorter than the leaves ; sepals ovate- 
lanceolate ; bulb up to 1 in. or more long and nearly 
as wide. balsaviifera, E. Mey. 
Peduncles usually longer than the leaves ; sepals oblong, 
subobtuse ; bulb shorter and narrower. 
luteola, Jacq 
Leaflets not as above. 
Leaflets (the medial or all) obcordate. 
Stem not or hardly appearing above ground. 
Hairs on the petioles and peduncles reflexed; bulb 
angular. obtusa, Jacq. 
Hairs on the petioles and peduncles not reflexed ; bulb 
not angular. lanata, Linn. f. 
Stem well exserted above the ground. 
Water plant with a floating rosette of leaves. 
natans, Linn. f. 
Terrestrial; glabrous. incarnata, Linn. 
Leaflets deeply bilobed. bifida, Thunb. 
All the leaves sessile or very shortly petiolate, the upper not crowded. 
Peduncles axillary. 
Leaflets oblong-cuneate, lanceolate or linear-cuneiform, hirta, Linn. 
Leaflets broadly obovate or subrotund ; petioles dilated at base. 
brevicaulis, Sond. 
Leaflets 4 — 19. 
Flowers not yellow. 
Leaflets oblong or obovate-cuneate, 12 — 19; corolla white. 
tomentosa, Linn. 
Leaflets linear. 
Leaflets with two apical calli on the under surface, bulb pale 
brown. pentaphylla, Sims. 
Leaflets without apical calli ; bulb blackish. 
pentaphylloides, Sond. 
Flowers yellow. 
Leaflets oblong-linear or linear, 1 — 3 Is. wide ; sepals equal. 
fiava, Linn. 
Leaflets oblong or obovate with a cartilaginous margin, 4—6 Is. 
wide; sepals subequal. lupinifolia, Jacq. 
Flowers umbellate. 
