238 PLANTS COLLECTED ON MT. RUWENZORI. 
oblongis medio dorso affixis, versatilibus, Ovarium triloculare ; stylus fili- 
formis exsertus ; stigma parvum, indistinete trilobulatum ; ovulum in loculis 
solitarium, pendulum. Васса subglobosa. Habitu Итан и eum floribus 
Cyrtanthi. Species 2. 
The foliage resembles that characteristic of other tropical African species of 
Hemanthus, and the few-celled ovary and berried fruit also point to the same 
genus, but the shape of the flower is different from that of any known species, 
The flowers resemble those of a Cyrtanthus, especially the South-African 
C. carneus, having the long narrow tube and short broad lobes of that species. 
I therefore venture to separate as a new genus these two alpine species, 
namely, the new one collected by Dr. Wollaston and a very closely allied 
species recently collected by Mr. Dawe at 8000 to 9000 ft. on the same moun- 
tain, and deseribed by Mr. Wright under the name Метан из cyrtanthiflorus 
(in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xxxvii. (1906) 529). In CH. CYRTANTHIFLORUS 
an ovoid bulb grows from a rhizome 3 em. thick, while їп Ch. Wollastoni 
Dr. Wollaston states that the leaves and scape spring direct. from the stout 
rhizome. A similar absence of a bulb occurs in the Uganda species 
Hemanthus Radcliffe’, where scape and leaves spring from the apex of a short 
stout rhizome, and the association of bulb and rhizome occurs in other tropical 
African species of that genus, as in М. multiflorus. 
Cu. WOoLLASTONI, sp. nov. 
Herba rhizomata, foliis magnis ovalibus multinerviis, basi in vaginas 
angustas semet involventes contractis ; scapo multifloro (specimine 25), 
floribus puniceis, quasi umbellatis, demum recurvatis; bracteis spathaceis 
membranaceis angustis brevibus ; pedicello gracile quam flore breviore ; 
tubo perianthii sursum gradatim ampliato, lobis ellipticis vel elliptico- 
oblongis, apice cucullato puberulis ; staminibus lobos vix sequantibus ; 
ovario ovoldeo. 
Hab. Ruwenzori E. 9000 ft. In flower February. 
Кош lamina 3 dm. long., 1 dm. lat. сарих 3:3 dm. long. *5 em. lat. 
Pedicellus ad 2:5 em. long. ; flos 6 em. long., tuba с. 4 em. long, fauce 
e. 1:2 em. lat., lobis vix 2 em. long., 8-10 mm. lat., interioribus paullo 
brevioribus et obtusioribus. Ovarium с. 5 mm. long. 
Closely allied to Ch. cyrtanthiflorus, but the flowers have a wider tube with 
a broader throat and broader limbs. The leaf is also broader and the 
inflorescence bears twice as many flowers. 
LILIACEAZE. 
ALOE WOLLASTONI, sp. nov. 
Herba caulescens (?), foliis crassis, parvis, ensiformibus, haud maculatis, 
marginibus corneis eum dentibus validis uncinatis frequentibus armatis ; 
scapo pauciter ramoso nudo, racemis densiusculis paucifloris : bracteis 
