Homeria
(from homereo, to meet; the filaments are connected in a tube around the style). ORD. Irideae. A small genus of handsome greenhouse bulbs, allied to Moraea, natives of South Africa. Flowers usually orange-red, copper-coloured, or yellow, very showy, and enduring; scapes leafy, branching. Leaves linear-ensiform. For culture, see Ixia.
H. aurantiaca (golden). fl. orange-red, yellow. Summer. l. narrow, radical, few, fistulose, sheathing. h. 1ft. 1810. SYN. Bobartia aurantiaca. (B. M. 1612, under name of Moraea collina miniata minor.) H. collina (hill). fl. reddish or yellow. Summer. l. narrow, convolute, concave; in the flowering plant generally cauline. h. 1ft. 1793. (B. M. 1033, under name of Moraea collina.) H. elegans (elegant). fl. yellow and dull blue or orange-brown. l. broader than those of H. aurantiaca and H. collina. h. 1ft. 1797. (B. M. 1283, under name of Moraea spicata).
H. lineata (lined-leaved). fl. red, yellow. Summer. l. with a white midrib, broadly linear, acute, somewhat leathery. h. 2ft. 1825. (S. B. F. G. 178.)