41z MR. A. B. RENDLE ON THE 
The linear grass-like leaves taper very gradually to the long 
pointed tip, are folded at the midrib, and show a fine longitu- 
dinal venation, 10-11 veins each side the midrib; they are 
7-12 inches long, 2-3 lines broad. The scape is 10 inches long 
below the raceme (24-3? inches). The lower bracts are drawn 
out into a long filiform, often recurving apex ; the lowermost 
reach a length of 1 inch, but they become shorter upwards 
and acuminate, measuring only 2 lines in length. The pedicels 
are about 1 line long. The white perianth-segments have three 
ceutral green lines, and are 54 lines long; the stamens are very 
slightly shorter; the large authers are 3} lines long, the filaments 
shorter. 
Approaches Anthericum uyuiense, mihi, and A. Grantii, Baker, 
from the same district as Taylor’s plant, but is easily distinguished 
bv the very long lower bracts; the scape, moreover, is not 
flattened. 
AntHertcuM (§ PaaLanaiuM) Grryama#, sp. nov. Herba 
glabra; rhizomate valido, fibris radicalibus densis crassiusculis ; 
foliis plicatis late linearibus utrinque attenuatis rigidis multi- 
nerviis basi membranaceis vaginantibus ; scapo aphyllo valde com- 
planato anguste alato folia superante ; paniculis paucis compressis 
in bractearum axillis distantibus; florum bracteis late ovatis 
vix acuminatis rubris ; perianthio rubro-suffuso, segmentis 5-7- 
nerviis, exterioribus oblongo-lanceolatis apice saturate coloratis, 
interioribus oblongis quam exteriora latioribus, minus coloratis 
et margine hyalina latiore; filamentis albis glabris complanatis ; 
antheris magnis flavis lanceolatis ; stylo filiformi haud exserto. 
Hab. Giryama and Shimba Hills: W. E. Taylor, 1887. 
The leaves are three in number, a foot and a half long and 
linch at the broadest; they are folded on the keeled midrib, which, 
like the leaf-margin, is bordered, and bear 26-28 veins on either 
side. The scape is 3 feet long by 33 lines broad, and bears four 
short lateral condensed panicles each in the axil of a bract, the 
lowest of which is 1} inch long and perforated at the base by 
the axis of the panicle, while the upper portion clasps the scape ; 
the three upper bracts were torn. The floral bracts are 2 lines 
long, reddish in colour and prominently veined. The perianth- 
segments are 53 lines long, the outer ones 12 line broad, the 
iuner 1? line. The stameus are shorter than the perianth, the 
flattened filaments being 1} line long, aud the large yeiluw 
anthers 3 lines; the style is 4 lines long. 
