214 CONTRIBUTION TO THE FLORA OF GAZALAND, 
DRACÆNA FRAGRANS, Gawl. in Bot. Mag. t. 1081. 
Mt. Maruma; 3500 ft. ; in fl. Sept.; n. 725, А small single-stemmed tree, 
30 ft. or so in height ; stems to а foot or more in diameter. Flowers pale 
greenish. Leaves eaten by the rock-rabbits (Ауға). Chirinda Forest, 
3700-4000 ft., n. 724 (leaves only) and in fl. Dec., n. 6520: a shrub 
about 10 feet in height, forming dense handsome clumps here and there 
throughout the forest and a favourite nesting-place for forest birds. 
Distrib. Tropical Africa. 
DRACÆNA GAZENSIS, Rendle, sp. nov. 
Arbor 30-35-pedalis, foliis alternis sessilibus elongatis lineari-lanceolatis 
acutis, siccis tenuibus; panieule speciose subpyramidalis ramis primariis 
patentibus leviter sursum curvatis flores albidos breviter pedicellatos dense 
fasciculatos supra medium et apice gerentibus ; braeteis brevibus deltoideis 
margine scariosis aeuminatis, quam pedicelli brevioribus ; perianthii tubo 
elongato cylindrico lacinias late-lineares paullo excedente : staminibus 
quam corolla et stylus paullo brevioribus ; antheris oblongis sub medio affixis ; 
ovario oblongo. 
Hab. Near Chirinda, 3800 ft., in fl. Oct. ; Mt. Maruma, 3500 ft., in 
fl. Sept. ; n. 80. A tall slender shrub or small tree with whitish flowers 
found in the kloofs and common in wooded glens. 
Folia 10-24 em. long., 1°3-2 ст. lat. Panicula 30 em. long., 20 ст. 
diametro; rami ad 10 em. long. Pedicelli 2-4 mm. long. Perianthium 
4—4:5 ст. long., lacinie circ. 2 сш. long., 3 mm. lat. 
Evidently near the Usambara species D. deremensis, Engler (known only 
from the description), which it apparently resembles in habit and character of 
inflorescence, but having smaller narrower leaves and much larger flowers— 
the perianth in D. deremensis is described as 1°5-1:7 em. long. 
* A small tree 30-35 ft. high but slender and nearly always bending over. 
The largest seen measured 14 inches in diameter at 4 feet from the ground ; 
trunk much furrowed and scored ; bark externally greenish-grey but much 
overgrown with a short moss and some lichen. Common in the Maruma 
forest patch and in the wooded glens about Chirinda. It occurs too in the 
Inyamkuwha forest patch.” 
KNIPHOFIA RHODESIANA, Pendle, sp. nov. 
Herba elata foliis....; pedunculo crasso superne bracteis vacuis paucis 
scariosis munito, bractea infima e basi acuminata lineari-filiformi, cxteris late 
deltoideis acutis ; racemo denso late oblongo ; bracteis florentibus late 
triangulari-ovatis obtusis conspicue uninerviis scariosis albidis ; pedicellis 
brevissimis ; perigonio luteo-scarlatino cylindrico-clavato supra ovarium 
angustato, lobis obtuse triangulari-ovatis ; antheris inclusis late ellipticis ; 
stylo exserto. 
