274 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE 
Baron 1990! Gathered also by the Rev. Deans Cowan. Adds 
this well-known Cape and Abyssinian genus to the flora of the 
island. 
DIPCADI HETEROCUSPE, n. sp. 
D. bulbo globoso, foliis 2-3 anguste linearibus glabris, scapo tereti gracili 
elongato, racemo denso 6-8-floro, pedicellis brevibus ascendentibus, 
bracteis magnis longe cuspidatis, perianthii viriduli segmentis tubo æqui- 
longis, exterioribus in floribus inferioribus breviter, in floribus superioribus 
longe caudatis. 
Bulb globose, 2 in. in diam., with pale brown membranous outer 
tunics. Leaves 2-3, contemporary with the flowers, narrow linear, 
nearly as long as the scape, 3 in. broad, firm in texture, tapering 
to the point, glabrous on surfaces and edge. Scape slender, 
terete, glabrous, 1-14 ft. long. Raceme close, 6-9-flowered ; 
pedicels not more than j,—} in. long; bracts 4-2 in. long, lanceo- 
late, with a long setaceous cusp. Perianth green, 4 in. long, the 
setaceous cusps of the outer segments not more than 7; in. long 
in the lower flowers, but growing gradually longer in the upper 
ones, and the top flowers sterile, with segments cuspidate nearly 
or quite down to the base, as in the Angolan D. comosum, Welw., 
figured in Trans. Linn. Soc. n. s. vol. i. pl. 34.— Central Madagas- 
car, Baron 697! Adds the genus to the flora of the island. A 
bulb gathered by Dr. Parker at Andramasina is likely another 
Dipcadi; but the specimen is in fruit. The leaves are 2 in. 
broad, thinner in texture, the raceme very lax, with flexuose as- 
cending pedicels above an inch long, and the fruit a subglobose 
capsule above 4 in. in diam., with numerous thin black discoid 
seeds. 
HYACINTHUS CRYPTOPODUS, n. sp. 
H. bulbo magno ovoideo, foliis 6-10 synanthiis lanceolatis glabris, scapo 
brevi, racemo denso oblongo, pedicellis brevissimis, bracteis minutis del- 
toideis, perianthii oblongi rubro-purpurei segmentis oblongis tubo zequi- 
longis, staminibus biseriatis filamentis brevibus, fructu parvo globoso, 
seminibus in loculo geminis erectis. 
Bulb ovoid, above an inch in diameter, with many thick pale 
membranous tunics. Leaves 6-10 to a bulb, lanceolate, thin and 
rather fleshy in texture, tapering to an acute apex, 4—4 in. broad, 
about 4 in. long in the flowering stage, but afterwards growing 
out to nearly a foot, quite glabrous both on the surface and 
margin. Peduncle not more than 2 in. long, hidden by the 
