374 MR. A. B. RENDLE ON THE 
new Albuca, found also on the Rabai Hills, is allied to A. Steud- 
nert from Kalabat; while a new Habenaria finds its nearest 
ally in the Kilimanjaro plant, H. stylites. A new Polystachya 
approaches the South-African P. tessellata. 
Of thirty plants from the coast-ranges near Mombasa, ten 
have an exclusively east tropical African affinity; of these 
Dioscorea triphylla is Abyssinian ; Habenaria rabaiensis, sp. Ds 
is allied to H. Volkensiana from Kilimanjaro; Anthericum 
giryame, sp. n., to A. milanjianum from Mt. Milanji; while 
Commelina Bainesii var. glabrata is another high Nyasaland 
plant. Only one, Angrecum semipedale, sp. n., shows exclusively 
West-African affinity. Six are more or less general in Tro- 
pical Africa, three in Tropical and South Africa, two in these 
and Madagascar, while one, Angraecum fimbriatum, sp. 0. is of 
South-African affinity. Gladiolus Taylorianus, sp. n., is allied to 
G. Quartinianus, a tropical African mountain plant. Angrecum 
giryame, a fine species, falls between the Malagasy A. superbum 
and the Bourbon A. eburneum; and Pandanus rabaiensis is also 
near P. utilis from Madagascar. 
Eight of the fourteen species from Kilimanjaro are new, and 
inelude two Habenarias allied to Abyssinian species; a Hespe- 
rantha allied to H. alpina from the Cameroons; an Aristea 
closely connected with one from Mt. Milanji in Nyasaland; a 
Lomulea near R. gracillima from the mountains of Namaqualand ; 
and a Disa and Disperis allied to South-African species. Of 
the species hitherto described, Dierama pendula and Asparagus 
plumosus are South-African, but recently recorded from Mt. 
Milanji. Of the five Kenya plants one or two are new, namely, 
a Disa allied to D. Welwitschii from Angola, and perhaps a 
Podocarp near the West Tropical African Podocarpus Mannit. 
Gladiolus watsonioides, previously described from the higher 
slopes of Kilimanjaro, was found by Dr. Gregory at the terminal 
moraine of sheet glaciation; the Abyssinian variety simensis of 
the arctic and alpine Luzula spicata, in the bamboo zone; and, 
lower still, in the lower forest zone, the temperate Juncus effusus. 
From the Laikipia plateau come the north temperate and alpine 
“Alisma Plantago and a new Hypozis allied to the Angolan 
H. polystachya. 
A Peristylus from Kariandusi very closely resembles a new 
one collected by Buchanan in Nyasaland. 
