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semper geminis, pedicellis brevibus prope basin articulatis, perianthii 

 segmentis lanceolatis dorso nervis 5 laxis purpureas vittatis margi 

 angusto albido, staminibus perianthio vix brevioribus, antheris magnis 

 papillosis, ovulis in loculo pluribtis crebris. 



This comes nearest the common Cape Anthericum triflorurn, 

 Ait., wrongly placed by Kunth in Chlorophytmn ; but it may 

 easily be known from that and all other species by tlie nervation 

 of the perianth-segments. 



Root not seen. Stem a foot high, with 3-4 leaves, which vary in length 

 from 6 to 15 inches, narrow, linear, firm, persistent, acuminate, 3-4 

 lines broad, quite glabrous, with a thickened keel, and about 20 

 close distinct ribs on each side of it, the uppermost one rising from 

 halfway up the stem, and reaching as high as the top of the raceme. 

 Raceme simple, half a foot long, with a slender very flexuose rachis. 

 Bracts minute, deltoid. Flowers laxly placed, all up to the tip in 

 pairs. Pedicels unequal, ascending or spreading, 1-3 lines long, arti- 

 culated just above the base, and the flowers easily falling away by 

 this articulation. Perianth J inch long; segments lanceolate, 1^-2 

 lines broad at the middle, rather reflexed when fully expanded, with 

 five distinct purple ribs in the centre, leaving only a narrow white 

 border on each side. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; anther 

 linear, papillose, as long as the rather flattened filament. Ovary mi- 

 nute, oblong, with a large number of horizontal ovules in each cell. 

 Style i inch long, filiform, declinate. 



Note on a Collection of North-Celebes P/ants made by Mr. Riedel 



of Gorontalo. By Prof. OliVek, F.K.S. & L.S. 



[Read November 4, 1875.] 



In June last Dr. A. B. Meyer, of Dresden, sent to the Kew 

 Herbarium, on behalf of Mr. Eiedelof Gorontalo, North Celebes, 

 a collection of dried plants made in that island, with a request 

 that any novelties which it contained might be published. The 

 state of the specimens and the comparatively small number of 

 authentic types of species described from Celebes accessible to 

 us, prevent our drawing up a complete catalogue of the collection ; 

 but the chief points of botanical interest which it suggests are 

 independent of these circumstances, and may, considering how 

 little we know of the botany of Celebes, be worth while laying 

 before the Linnean Society, together with descriptions of eight 

 new species which our materials enable us to describe. 



