418 MR. A. B. RENDLE ON THE 
Fruiting specimen only. Is nearer the East-Indian C. Heynei 
than the Tropical African Chlorophytum Afzelii, Baker, as it has 
the very short scape, the larger fruits, and broader, more nume- 
rously nerved leaves of the former. The leaves are in fact 
broader than in C. Heynei, being nearly 2 inches across. 
Cutoropnytum (§ CANN.EFOLTA) MONILIFORME, sp. nov. Herba 
perennis, semipedalis vel infra ; rhizomate moniliforme tuberoso ; 
fibris radicalibus paucis fusiformibus ; folits evolutis 3, infimo parvo, 
basi vaginante, lamina ovata acuta, margine uervisque dorsalibus 
breviter ciliolatis vel hispidulis ; superioribus majoribus, lanceo- 
latis vel ovato-lancevlatis, apice acuto vel acuminato, glabris, 
margine solum ciliolatis; supremo distincte petiolato; scapo 
tenui aphyllo brevi simplici, basi a foliis vaginato glabro, sursum 
pubescente ; racemo paucifloro ; bracteis scariosis sursum 
deminutis ovatis basi amplexicaulibus, apice Jonge acuminatis, 
nervatis, margine breviter ciliolatis ; pedicellis solitariis brevibus 
sub medio articulatis; perianthii albidi vix semipollicaris seg- 
mentis lanceolatis a nervis 8 (rare 4) subfuscis lineatis, exteri- 
oribus quam interiora parum latioribus apice subcucullatis ; 
staminibus perianthio brevioribus; filamentis linearibus sub- 
complanatis; antheris flavis sagittatis basifixis defloratis con- 
tortis; ovario breviter oblongo, apice depresso, angulis sub- 
prominulis, ovulis in loculo multis superpositis, stylo filiform 
flexuoso. 
Hab. Uyui: W. E. Taylor, Feb. 1887. 
A small plant 4-6 inches high, proceeding each year as a 
Jateral shoot from last season’s globose tuber (4-3 inch thick), 
from which it becomes separated by a thin rhizome about 2 inch 
long and 3 line thick. There are three expanded leaves besides 
# basal sheath. The first is small, the sheathing-base passing 
into an ovate acute blade 1 inch long by 7 lines broad; the 
other two have a more or less lanceolate blade 3-5 inches long, 
3-1} inch broad, the upper passing into, a petiole 1 inch long, 
the lower into a narrow sheathing-base ; they are membranous or 
almost papery and glabrous, but with a very shortly ciliolate 
margin; there are 20-30 nerves prominent on the back of the 
leaf. The short thin colourless scape measures 24-4 inches 
below the short simple 5-flowered raceme: above the base, 
which is sheathed by the leaves, it is softly pubescent. The 
white searious bracts have a long acuminate apex, and are lon- 
gitudinally nerved; the lowest is } inch long, the upper are 
