FLORA OF EASTERN TROPICAL AFRICA. 421 
Approaches the little group of Tropical African species allied 
to Chlorophytum amplexicaule, Baker, but is distinguished from 
all by its very small flowers. 
CHLOROPHYTUM (§ CANNEFOLIA) RAMIFERUM, sp. nov. Giabra, 
perennis; rhizomate brevi, collo tenuiter setoso, fibris radicalibus 
longis sub apice fusiformibus ; foliis elongatis lineari-lanceolatis 
apice acutis, inferne in petiolum plicatum ima basi vaginantem 
angustatis, papyraceis 20—24-nerviis; scapo terete, folia supe- 
rante pauci-ramoso; bracteis membranaceis ramos subtendenti- 
bus triangulari-subulatis, floriferis minoribus ovatis apice breviter 
aristatis; pedicellis tenuibus sepius ternis apicem versus 
articulatis; perianthio campanulato 3-lineo, segmentis lance- 
olatis subacutis bruneis medio lineatis; staminibus perian- 
thium equantibus vel vix brevioribus, filamentis antheras 
basifixas superantibus, glabris teretibus sub apice inflatis; ovario 
oblongo trilobato; stylo filiformi vix perianthium superante. 
Hab. Between Zauzibar and Uyui: W. E. Taylor, 1886. 
The long wiry root-fibres have a thickened fusiform ending, 
and spring from a short thick rhizome, on the upper surface 
of which are crowded the 7-9 long, slender, thin leaves, a foot or 
more in length and 6-8 lines at their broadest. The thin folded 
petioles have a broad sheathing insertion, and are 2-3 inches 
long. The leafless scape measures 8-10 inches below the first 
bract, which is about 13 inch long, the upper shorter ; the inflo- 
rescence is about 10 inches long. The 3-4 branches (4-5 inches) 
and the longer upper part of the main axis are laxly flowered 
below, but almost clothed above with the broad ascending floral 
bracts, which are 4-5 lines long, with 5-7 nerves and a thinner 
margin, closely enveloping the thin pedicels, which are generally 
in threes and articulated below the apex. The flowers are small 
and brown; the outer perianth-segments are 3 lines long by 3 line 
broad, with lighter edges and a brownish centre marked with 
five dark brown thin lines ; the inner are slightly broader, nearly 
1 line, with five thin central lines and a broader one parallel to 
the hyaline margin. The stamens are equal to or scarcely 
shorter than the perianth; the glabrous colourless filaments 
(12 line long) are cylindrical in the middle, but become swollen 
beneath the yellow linear basifixed anthers (1-1j line in lengtl:). 
The ovary is 1 line long, with three rounded lobes. 
Near C. petiolutum, Baker (in Journ. Linn. Svc., Bot. xv. p. 326), 
