FLORA OF EASTERN TROPICAL AFRICA. 411 
21 inches long and as broad; the scarious light-brown coloured 
bracts are 14 line long and about as broad at the base. The 
persistent pedicels are about half an inch long; the cylindrical 
perianth is 1 inch long, and in the dried pressed condition 
25-3 lines broad ; the segments are 9 lines long, the outer three 
1} line broad, the inner 2 lines, the latter are marked with three 
median undulating dark lines, the former with generally four 
less undulating lines ; the stamens nearly equal the perianth in 
length; the linear-oblong anthers are + line long. 
From the description in Engler’s ‘ Jahrbiicher’ (xv. p. 471) this 
species is near Aloe venenosa, Engl., from East Tropical Africa, but 
the marginal leaf-teeth are smaller, as is also the inflorescence, 
which in Engler’s plant has branches 12-20 inches long and 
racemes 8-14 inches, while the bracts are also much longer and 
much narrower in proportion. 
Kniesorra THomsont, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xxi. 
p- 406. 
Mt. Kilimanjaro, Morang, 5000-6500 ft., and higher slopes 
above Morang to 10,000 ft.; Arusha and Kahe plains and 
forests, about 3000 ft.: W. E. Taylor, 1888. 
Distrib. Mt. Kilimanjaro. 
BULBINE ASPHODELOIDES, Schult. fil. in Roem. et Schult. Syst. 
Vil. p. 444. 
Platform on Kikuyu escarpment, Kedong, Naivasha to 
Baringo Valley, April 30, 1893, and Lake Dumi, Tana, Feb. 18: 
J. W. Gregory. 
Distrib. South and Tropical Africa. 
ANTHERICUM (§ PHALANGIUM) ACUMINATUM, sp. nov. Herba 
glabra ; foliis paucis gramineis subtiliter nervatis, margine 
integris, apice acuminatis ; scapo nudo subterete ; racemo 
flexuoso subdenso; bracteis albis scariosis, infimis anguste 
triangularibus ad apicem longum filiformem productis, superior- 
ibus acuminatis ; pediceliis brevibus solitariis sub medio arti- 
culatis ; perianthii albi segmentis lanceolatis, a lineis viridibus 
medianis 3 notatis ; staminibus perianthio vix brevioribus, 
antheris longis sagittatis, filamentis his brevioribus glabris ; 
stylo filiformi curvato, perianthio subequilongo. 
Hab. Between Zanzibar and Uyui: W. E. Taylor, 1886. 
Negurunga Kifaniko; Taita Mts.: J. W. Gregory, April 3, 
1893. 
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