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the end of the blunt posterior sac, and 3 lines from the acute 
anterior tip to the same point. The lateral petals with their 
rounded apex form a hyaline margin to the hood 14 line long. The 
spreading lateral sepals are 3 lines by 2, with a narrow lateral 
sac on theinside. ‘The narrow lip is 3 lines long, curving upwards 
and then outwards, and terminating in a dark-coloured ovate 
blade, behind which at the base is a dark-coloured pitcher- 
like sae. 
Closely resembles the South-African Disperis Macowani, 
Bolus, but differs in beinga glabrous plant witha larger flower; 
also in the bluntly spurred dorsal hood, while the lip, though 
linear, has a much shorter, more inflated terminal spur. 
TLEMODORACES. 
SaysEvierta cynrnprica, Boj. Hort. Maurit. p. 349. 
Rabai Hills: W. E. Taylor, 1885. 
Distrib. Tropical Africa. 
SANSEVIERLA cf, @UINEENSIS, Willd. Sp. ii. p. 159. 
Material insufficient for certain determination. 
Konje, Kisulutini, Rabai Hills: Taylor, Sept. and Oct. 1885. 
Distrib. Tropical Africa. 
Romones avprna, sp. nov. Herba humilis glabra; bulbo glo- 
boso; foliis evolutis 4, setaceis, scapum florentem longe super- 
antibus; pedunculo terete solitario brevi unifloro, fructifero 
elongato; spathe valvis consimilibus substramineis lanceolatis 
subacutis; perianthii infundibuliformis tubo bilineo luteo, seg- 
mentis oblanceolatis violaceis quam stamina duplo longioribus ; 
filamentis in tubo sub fauce insertis, antheris styli ramos super- 
antibus. 
Hab. Higher slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro above Morang to 
10,000 ft.: W. E. Taylor, 1888. 
A small plant not exceeding 5 inches in height, with a brown 
globose corm 3 inch in diameter, and four very narrow setaceous 
faleate leaves 4-54 inches long, with a strong midrib, The pe- 
dunele is 14 inch long in the flowering state, but elongates to 
4" inches in the fruit; the two spathe-valves are similsr, straw- 
like in consistence and striate, the outer 64 lines long, the inner 
half a line less; the short perianth-tube (2 lines long) is a 
golden yellow, the delicate subobtuse segments are a pale violet 
with deeply coloured veins, and measure 5 lines in length by a 
