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setaceo-acuminata, ciliata, squamis albis linearibus laceratis centri- 

 fixis obtecta, 075-1 decim. longa, 6 millim. lata. Flos solitarius, 

 e spatha membranacea bifida hypogasa, hypocrateriformis, tubo 

 leviter incurva striatulo, 5 centim. longo, lirabi laciniis patentibus 

 lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, 2-2| centim. longis, 5-6 millim. 

 latis. Filaments monantherifera, 4 millim. longa ; antheris bilo- 

 culatis sagittatis, 6 millim. longia. Stylus validus, subangulatus, 

 pars inferior gradatim incrassata, parte exserta 6-8 lin. longa ; 

 stigmate capitato, obscure trilobo. Ovarium obovatum vel cla- 

 vatum ? (vix visum). Fructus ignotus. (v. s. s.) 



Iu locis lapidosis apertisque inter Murraysburg et Richmond, 

 alt. circ. 4000 ped., similibusque raontium '.Sneeuwbergen, in re- 

 gione editiore Colonize Capensis; legit W. Tyson, anno 1878. 

 (No. 842, Herb. Bolus.) 



The long, exserted, and declined style constitutes in this plant 

 a marked departure from the type of the genus, so far as the 

 species are known to me or characterized in Kunth's • Enumeratio.' 

 Nor does Mr. Baker's very recent revision of the genera of this 

 Order (Trimen's Journ. Bot. vol. vii. n. s. p. 161) refer to any such 

 peculiarity. The fruit is as yet unknown ; but in other respects 

 the present plant so much resembles Gethyllis that I propose to 

 place it here until the fruit shall be seen, under the section 

 Clinostylis, as distinct from section Orthostylis, to include the 

 species with a straight and comparatively short style. The plant 

 occurs in several parts of the Sneeuwberg mountains, but appa- 

 rently flowers rarely ; for though I have several times seen and 

 gathered it in leaf, and also sent bulbs to Kew some years ago, I 

 was never fortunate enough to find it in flower. I received 

 the specimen from which the above description is drawn from 

 Mr. W. Tyson, of Murraysburg, who has already detected several 

 novelties in that region. It was the only flowering specimen 

 he met with. 



