BOTANY OF SOUTHERN RHODESIA. 473 
AMARYLLIDACEE. 
Hypoxts VILLOSA, Linn. 
Matopo Hills, veld, general. FI. Oct. 192. 
Distrib. Tropical and South Africa. 
The clear yellow flowers of this plant are striking, as it is 
very common, and one of the first to come up after the veld 
has been burnt. It blooms very freely, sending up the flower- 
stalks before the leaves. In the specimen the dry leaves are of 
last season’s growth. 
BUPHANE DISTICHA, Herbert. 
Matopo Hills, veld, general. Fl. Oct. 208. 
Distrib. Angola, Mozambique district, South Africa. 
Large bulbs which send up cushion-like umbels of magenta 
flowers, about 2 m. high, before the leaves, sweet-scented. 
LirrAcEX. 
ASPARAGUS LARICINUS, Durch. 
Matopo Hills, near streams, general. Sept. 18. 
Distrib. Rhodesia, Betchuanaland, Orange River, and Cape 
Colony. 
A handsome species, which sends up erect canes over 2 m. 
high, with very white stem and whorled cladodes. 
ALBUCA CAUDATA, Jacq. 
Matopo Hills, veld, common. Fl. and bulb, Oct. 287. 
Distrib. Portuguese East Africa, Nyassaland, Rhodesia, and 
South Africa. 
Flowering before the leaves; flowers brown-pink in colour. 
URGINEA SANGUINEA, Schinz, in Verhandl. Bot. Vereins 
Branden. xxxi. (1890) p. 219. 
Victoria Falls, veld, common. FI. and Fr. Sept. 147. 
Distrib. Amboland. 
Flowers before the leaves. 
SCILLA LANCEHZFOLIA, Baker. 
Matopo Hills, veld. Fl. Oct. 191. 
Distrib. Angola, Uganda, Zambesi District, South Africa. 
XYRIDEE. 
Xynis MULTICAULIS, JV. E. Br. 
Victoria Falls, bog edge of Rain Forest and Livingstone 
Island. Fl. Sept. 169. 
Distrib. British Central Africa, Nyassaland. 
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