Liliaceae novae Austro-africanae a S. Schonland descriptae. 183 



frequently the longest, perianth 3,1 cm long, very slightly curved, c. 1 cm 

 broad at the base and suddenly constricted, forming a flattened bulb, and 

 then gradually widening out again, tube about 2 / 3 the length of perianth, 

 pale red, faintly striped with darker red on the bulb, lobes with pale red 

 centre which passes into greenish-red near the tip and with almost white 

 broad wings; stamens and style exserted about 3 mm; filaments flattened, 

 white and broadened at the base, yellow above, anthers oblong, yellowish- 

 red within, reddish-brown outside: ovary 9 mm long, cylindrical, deeply 

 furrowed, style yellow. 



In the bush on sandy ground a few miles west of Palapye Road 

 Station in the country of the Bamangwatos. Flowered in Grahams town, 

 March 1904. 



Like the plants which I take to be varieties of A. grandidentata Salm- 

 Dyck, and which occur at various places in Griqualand West, Cape Colony. 

 A. bamangwatensis readily spreads by means of underground suckers, and 

 thus I found it frequently in patches of a variable number of individuals. 

 From A. grandidentata it is easily distinguished by the large "bulb"" of 

 the flower, the longer bracts and shorter pedicels, from A. Greenii Bak., 

 by the smaller, differently spotted leaves, straighter flowers, shorter 

 pedicels, &c. With A. Greenii and A. Greatheadii Schonl. it shares the 

 greatly enlarged base of the perianth, but apart from this the differences 

 in floral structure pointed out between the latter and A. grandidentata 

 Salm-Dyck, also hold good for the present species. 



4. Androcymbium albanense Schonl., 1. c, p. 123 (Plate V. Fig. 1). 



Corm oblong, about 1 cm in diameter, tunics firm, dark brown; under- 

 ground neck 5— 15 mm long, bearing 5 rather thin foliage leaves. Leaves 

 more or less horizontal, glabrous, green with white margin and brownish 

 base, the two outer plicate, ovate-lanceolate. 7 — 8 cm long, the inner 

 shorter ovate. Capitulum 2—5 flowered, up to 15 mm in diameter; bracts 

 broadly ovate, more or less folded round each flower, about 15 mm long, 

 pedicels thick, about 3 mm long. Petals greenish white, about 14 mm 

 long, claw narrow, a little longer than the cucullate blade; stamens about 

 2 / 3 the length of the blades of the petals, filaments from a broad base 

 subulate, reddish brown; anthers subbasiflxed, introrse. connective yellowish, 

 broad, pollensacs dark reddish-brown, pollen yellow; carpels sharp-angled 

 on the back, ovaries about the same length as the styles and gradually 

 passing into them, stigmata minute; capsules and seeds unknown. 



Amongst grass, near the Brickfields. Grahamstown. alt. c. 2000'. Miss 

 M. Daly and Miss M. Sole, Aug. 1903. 



This species has some features in common with A. eucomoide.s Willd., 

 but in the latter the pedicels are 3 / 4 — 1 inch long, the stamens are ex- 

 serted and the anthers are linear-oblong. It seems, however, to come 

 close to the incompletely known A. albimarginatum Schinz, in which, 

 however, the bracts are ovate-lanceolate, the claw of the petals is as 

 long as the blade and the stamens as long as the perianth segments. 



