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concolorous, oval-lanceolate obtuse segments 7-8 lines long by 
23 lines broad, in the inner series rather narrower. The short 
filiform stamens are inserted at the mouth of the tube; the 
anthers are 2} lines long. The three subulate style-arms are 5 
lines long, being twice the length of the undivided part. 
Is closely related to H. alpina, Benth., from the Cameroons 
(SO00-10,000 ft.), but differs in being a larger, more robust plant 
with concolorous segments twice as long as the perianth-tube. 
DreRAMA PENDULA, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xvi. p. 99. 
Hab. Higher slopes of Kilimanjaro above Morang to 10,000 ft. : 
W. E. Taylor, 1888. 
Collected at a similar elevation in 1884 by H. H. Johnston. 
Distrib. South Africa; Mount Milanji, Nyasaland. 
Lapreyrousta concEsta, sp. nov. Herba glabra; bulbo sub- 
conico a tunicis rigidis rubro-fuscis cancellatis instructo; caule 
infra, preter vaginas laxas, nudo; fvlio spatharumque valvis 
foliaveis dense confertis suberectis, a basi latiore linearibus apice 
acutis; perianthii pallidi tubo longissimo anguste cylindrico, 
segmentis linearibus vel lineari-lanceolatis acutis ; staminibus 
perbrevibus styli ramos haud superantibas. 
Hab. Between Zanzibar and Uyui: W. E. Taylor, 1886. 
The broadly conical corm is 3 inch in diameter, the outer 
tunies are rigid, deep brown, and cancellate. The stem is bare 
for the lower 14 inch except for two small lax superposed sheaths, 
while at its summit the single leaf and the leaf-like spathes are 
crowded into a dense sessile distichous head. The four outer 
spathe-valves are linear from a broader sheathing base, with a 
sharp apex, and 4—5! inches long, 1} line broad or less, re- 
sembling the single (external) foliage-leaf (4} inches long); the 
inner valves are also leaf-like, but smaller. The very narrow 
perianth-tube is 4-5 inches long, the narrow sharply pointed 
spreading segments are 14 lines long ; the anthers are j inch long, 
and on a level with the short style-branches. 
Is very near L. odoratissima, Baker (Huilla, 3800-5500 ft., 
Welwitsch, no. 1551), in its foliaceous spathes, long perianth- 
tube, and narrow segments; but in the Angola plant the stem, 
though short, is not suppressed above the first-produced leaf. 
The crowding of the leaf and flowers will place the new species 
in Baker’s Section ITI. Sophronia, from all the species of which 
it differs in its long perianth-tube and large foliaceous spathes. 
