FLORA OF EASTERN TROPICAL AFRICA, 405 
Graptonus (§ Evenapronvs) sp., G. corneo, Oliver in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 155, t. 100, aff. 
Between Zanzibar and Uyui: W. E. Taylor, 1886. 
Distrib. of G. corneus. Mountains east of Lake Tanganyika. 
Guaviotus (§ Evenapiotus) Taynorranus, sp. nov. Planta 
glabra elata; bulbi globosi fibris parallelis apice intertextis ; 
caule terete basi vaginato superne folioso et minute rubro- 
maculato; vaginis infimis chartaceis, superioribus in folia basi 
vaginantia supra lanceolata transitum prebentibus ; foliis rigidis 
acuminatis, costa media marginibusque incrassatis ; spica simplici 
secunda 5—7-flora; spathis distantibus, valvis equalibus ovatis, 
superne lineari-oblongis acuminatis vix aristatis; perianthii 
tubo anguste infundibuliformi curvato rubro-striato, segmentis 
horizontalibus tubum paullo excedentibus, 3 superioribus orbi- 
culari-ovatis apice retuso mucronulatis luteis (?) pallide roseo- 
suffusis, dorsali cucullato lateralia superantibus; 3 inferioribus 
luteis multoties minoribus obovatis anteriore recurvato apice 
rotundatis ; staminibus segmenta inferiora superantibus; stylo 
antheras superante a stigmate trifido coronato. 
Hab. Rabati Hills: W. E. Taylor, 1886. 
A fine plant 21 feet high springing from a glcbose corm about 
1 inch thick with tunics of parallel fibres becoming interwoven 
at the top. The stem bears a number of basal sheaths, the (two) 
outer short obtuse and papery, the (two) inner becoming longer, 
acute to acuminate ‘and foliaceous, and followed by the basal 
foliage-leaf, which has a long chartaceous sheath (6-7 inches), 
passing gradually into a rigid broadening lanceclate blade 
(greatest width 11 lines) with an acuminate apex; there is 
another similar cauline leaf and an upper smaller one. The 
rather lax spike is a foot or more in length; the two spathe- 
valves are equal in length (13-2} inches in the lower half of the 
spike, and 3-4 inch broad) ; the curved perianth-tube is 14 inch 
long, less than 8 lines in diameter at its mouth, the dorsal 
upper segment is 12 inch long and 1} inch broad, the two more 
orbicular lateral ones 1} ineh long by 14 lines broad; the three 
inferior segments are 1 inch long and half as broad. The tube is 
finely and closely spotted with red, and there are a few red 
blotches about the mouth; the segmints have probably been 
yellowish suffused with a pale rose-colour. 
Near the wide-spread Tropical African G. Quartinianus, 
