FLORA OF EASTERN TROPICAL AFRICA. 409 
HWmMantuus MULTIFLORUS, Martyn, Monogr. cum Teon. 
Kisulutini, Rabai: W. E. Taylor, March 1886. 
Distrib. Tropical Africa, 
VELLOsIA (XEROPHYTA) EQUATORIALIS, sp. nov. Planta pro 
genere mediocris ; caudice semipedali superne fureato ; tunicis 
nigrescentibus valide sed anguste plicatis ; foliis linearibus 
acuminatis apice plicatis vel involutis, junioribus densissime, 
adultis minus pubescentibus; pedunculis quam folia brevioribus 
unifloris superne viscosis ; perigonii segmentis lineari-lanceolatis 
apice minute falcatis, dorso basi verruculosis utrinque glabris ; 
antheris sessilibus linearibus quam segmenta plus duplo minor- 
ibus, superne recurvatis ; ovario oblongo-cylindrico dense glandu- 
loso-muricato ; stylo crassiusculo antheras vix superante. 
Hab. Between Zanzibar and Uyui: W. E. Taylor. 
A rather short shrubby plant, with a stout caudex, 7 lines 
thick, half a foot long below the fork; the uninjured branch is 
14 inch long, and ends in a tuft of leaves. Leaf-tufts also emerge 
from the axils of several of the upper sheaths on the main stem. 
The sheaths are more or less truncate, black in colour, and 
finely but rigidly plicate like a fan. The young leaves are 
covered beneath with a thick pubescence, which becomes shorter 
and less dense in the older; the latter reach a length of 5-6 in. 
(in a non-flowering shoot 10 in.) and a breadth of nearly 3 lines. 
The thin pedicels are 2 in. long and become minutely glandular- 
warted like the ovary in the upper portion. The flowers are 
solitary. The linear-lanceolate segments of the perianth are 
13-14 lines long by 2 broad, and generally have 9 longitudinal 
nerves ; the narrow sessile anthers are } in. long, and become 
recurved above. The oblong-cylindrical ovary is 4 lines long 
by 2 in thickness, and the rather thick style 8 lines long. 
Approaches (e descriptione) Barbacenia tomentosa, Pax, in 
Enel. Jahrb. xv. p. 144, from East Tropical Atrica, but has 
rather longer and broader leaves and shorter flower-pedicels. 
The perianth-segments are shorter and acute, while the ovary is 
also shorter and not clavate as in the species described by Pax. 
DroscorEacE®. 
Droscorea (§ Henmra) trreuyiya, Schimp. ex Kunth, Enum, 
Vv. p. 436. 
Rabai Hills: W. E. Taylor, 1886. 
Unripe fruiting specimen only. 
Distrib. Abyssinia. 
