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shorter and narrower. The short pedicels are 13 line long, and 
jointed just below the middle. The perianth is 5} lines long; 
the outer segments are narrowly lanceolate, 1 line broad, with a 
slightly hooded tip; the inner are a little broader, with an obtuse 
apex, and the three nerves are rather wider apart. The white 
linear filaments are 12 line long, the bright yellow anthers 13 
line; the latter are inserted on the pointed tip of the filament, 
and become spirally twisted after shedding the pollen. The 
shortly oblong ovary is 17 line long with slightly prominent 
angles, the filiform style is just over 3 lines in length. 
A distinct species of Baker’s section Cannefolia (Journ. Linn. 
Soc., Bot. xv. p. 321). 
CHLOROPHYTUM (§ CANNHFOLTA) FUSIFORME, sp. nov. Herba 
perennis ; rhizomate crasso tuberoso, fibris radicalibus valde in- 
crassatis fusiformibus ; foliis 5-6, 3-4 majoribus lineari-lanceolatis 
raro lanceolatis, acutis, scapum multo superantibus, rigidulis 
papyraceis in facie superiore glabris, margine nervisque dorsalibus 
hispidulis ; scapo brevi tenui pubescente ; racemo 15-16-flcro 
inconspicuo; bracteis scariosis pubescentibus basi ovatis, apice 
acuminatis valde elongatis; pedicellis solitariis vel binis infra 
medium articulatis ; perianthii segmentis lanceolatis, interiori- 
bus latioribus, obtusis 3-5-nervatis; filamentis subulatis, antheris 
subsagittatis basifixis ; ovarii oblongi angulis subprominulis, ovulis 
multis superpositis. 
Hab. Uyui: W. E. Taylor, Feb. 3, 1887. 
A small plant 8-10 inches high, with a thick congested 
rhizome about + inch thick, formed by the aggregation of 
successive tubers, each of which bears a few thickened fusiform 
roots. The two lowest leaves have a broad membranous 
sheathing-base and a small falcate blade; the two uppermost 
pass gradually into a colourless petiole 1? inch long, and have a 
linear- lanceolate blade 6-8 inches long and } inch at its broadest ; 
they have a reddish tinge and bear 25-30 shortly hairy veins 
prominent on the lower surface. The narrow scape is 2 inches long 
and the raceme 13 inch. The lowermost bracts are about j inch 
long, the upper ones about j inch and less elongated at the apex. 
The perianth-segments are obtuse, the outer lanceolate, 44 lines 
long by 13 broad, the inner are as long as and slightly broader 
than the outer, with a broad hyaline margin. The colourless subu- 
late filaments are 14 line long, the ve'low basifixed anthers the 
same length. The ovary is 1 line long; the fil-form style 3 lines. 
