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ANTHERICUM (§ PHALANGIUM) UYUIENSE, sp. nov. Herba 
glabra; fibris radicalibus tenuibus, setis in collo radicis vix 
uncialibus; foliis 5, linearibus, inferne plicatis superne sepe planis, 
margine minute scabridulis, dorso carinatis subtiliter nervatis, 
basi rubro-maculata scapum amplectentibus ; seapo nudo, glabro, 
folia haud equante, sub racemo simplici complanato, vix alato; 
bracteis parvis triangularibus subito acuminatis, floribus paucis 
In racemum lJaxum flexuosum ordinatis, solitariis vel inferioribus 
binis; pedicellis brevibus ascendentibus, infra medium articu- 
Jatis ; perianthii albidi segmentis lineari-oblongis obtusis medio 
5-vervis rubroque tinetis, marginibus late hyalinis, interioribus 
latioribus ; staminibus cum perianthio «quilongis; fiiameutis 
albis glabris complanatis ; antheris flavis basifixis lineari-lanceo- 
latis ; stylo filiformi curvato exserto. 
fab. Between Zanzibar and Uyui: W. E. Taylor, 1886. 
A slender plant 1-1? feet high, emitting a number of long thin 
wiry root-fibres from the short stem-base. Two or three of the 
outermost leaves are reduced to little more than sheaths, and, 
like the exposed bases of the upper elongated leaves, are marked 
with transverse purplish striae. The elongated sessile leaves are 
20-22 inches long and 24-4 lines broad, and overtop the simple 
scape, with its sparsely-flowered flexuose raceme, the latter 
reaching 4 inches in length. The small, suddenly acuminate 
bracts are about 14 line long, the pedicels about j inch. The 
perianth-segments have a broad hyaline margin and a 5-nerved 
central strip tinged with red; they are 63—7 lines long, the inner 
ones 2 lines broad, the outer 14 line. The stamens are equal 1m 
length to the segments, the white flattened glabrous filaments 
bearing yellow anthers 3} lines long. The filiform exserted 
style is almost 7 lines long. 
Approaches A. Grantii, Baker (in Trans. Linn. Soe. xxix. 
p- 160), but is glabrous, with leaves more than twice as long, 
and also differs in floral details ; the perianth-segmerts of 
A. Grantii, for instance, being lanceolate, while the stamens are 
only about half their length (4-43 lines). 
AntHERICUM (§ DitantHes) TAYLORIANUM, 8p. nov. Herba 
cespitosa ; rhizomate duro lignoso nodoso ; foliis multis, lineari- 
lanceolatis, longe linearibus vel ensiformibus, papyraceis, glabris 
sed in costa media et margine sepe crispula hispido-ciliolatis, basi 
membranacea scapum vaginantibus; scapo foliis breviore farinaceo- 
