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AMARYLLIDACE®. 
Hypoxis aneustiroria, Lam. Encye. iii. p. 182. 
Fimbini near Rabai: W. E. Taylor, Aug. 1885. 
Distrib. Tropical to South Africa, Madagascar, and Masca- 
rene Is. 
Hypoxts vittosa, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 198. 
Between Zanzibar and Uyui: W. E. Taylor, 1886. 
Distrib. South Africa to Abyssinia. 
HypoxIS LAIKIPIENSIS, sp. nov. Elata; tubere. . ..; foliis 
supra basin longe vaginantem linearibus superne ad apicem 
tenuem angustatis, utrinque (facie autem superiore sparse) vil- 
losis, pedunculos superantibus; his pluribus complanatis superne 
cum racemis, pedicellis, bracteis floribusque dense cinereo-albo- 
(inflorescentia juvenili argenteo-) villosis ; racemis gracilibus 10- 
floris ; bracteis lineari-subulatis quam flores dimidio brevioribus ; 
pedicellis sublongis; florum segmentis externis extus villosis 
lanceolatis acutis, internis subovalibus subacutis, dorso solum 
infra medium pilosis ; staminibus quam segmenta duplo brevior- 
ibus, filamentis subulatis brevibus, antheris sagittatis quam 
filamenta plus duplo longioribus. 
Hab. Steppes cut up by deep ravines, west of Alng’aria, 
Laikipia: J. W. Gregory, June 10, 1893. 
A fine plant over two feet high, the long narrow leaves, 6 in 
number, reaching a length of 28 inches, with a breadth of 
scarcely half an inch. The lower surface and margin is tomen- 
tose, the upper surface only sparsely so. The flattened peduncles 
(5 in number) are as much as 1} ft. long below the raceme, 
which is about 5 inches in length and bears 10 ascending flowers. 
The upper part of the peduncle, the axis of the raceme, the 
pedicels, the back of the bracts, the ovary, and the back of the 
outer series of perianth-segments are densely covered with long 
greyish-white ascending hairs; on the young inflorescence the 
hairs are silvery white. The lower bracts are 12-13 lines long, 
the lower pedicels 3 in., the upper shorter in each case. The 
turbinate ovary is between 2 and 3 lines long; the outer 
perianth-segments 8 lines long by 24 broad, the inner 7 lines 
long, and equal to the outer in breadth. The short subulate 
filaments are 14 line long, the sagittate anther 3 lines. The 
hairs on the ovary are about two lines long. 
Is near H. polystachya, Welw. (Huilla, Angola), but differs in 
