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larger, twice as broad, and less acuminate than in the Welwitsch 
plant, which has also a glabrous perianth, whitish in colour with 
purple streaks. 
Urornea TaYboriana, sp. nov. Planta glabra; bulbo crasso 
globoso; foliis 7 rigidis plicatis lineari-subulatis basi vaginante 
membranaceis, apice subpungentibus ; scapo nudo folia superante 
subrobusto; racemo denso brevi; bracteis albidis submem- 
branaceis triangulari-subulatis ecalcaratis, pedicellos duplo super- 
antibus; perianthii segmentis spathulato-oblongis albis, nervis 
centralibus 3 rubris; filamentis perianthio brevioribus com- 
planatis linearibus apice acutis; autheris oblongis versatilibus ; 
stylo recto; capsula globosa. 
Hab. Between Zanzibar and Uyui: W. E. Taylor, 1886. 
A glabrous plant about 16 inches in height, with a large scaly 
bulb 2} inches in diameter. The leaves, which are 7-8 inches 
ong, have a colourless membranous sheathing base and a folded 
tapering upper portion, 3-4 lines broad in the middle. The 
smooth shiny scape measures 10 inches below the raceme, which 
is 8 inches long, and bears a few sterile flower-buds below the 
crowded oval upper portion. The slender, tapering, almost 
aristate bracts are 5-6 lines long below, becoming shorter above ; 
the pedicels are 2-25 lines. The cpened flower is nearly 7 lines 
across. The segments are 8 lines long and 1-1} line broad in 
the upper half, the lower being slightly narrower; they are 
white, with a reddish central strip traversed by three nerves. 
The broad flattened filaments are 2 lines long by 2 line broad, 
and bear the yellow anthers (1 line long) on their pointed tips. 
The ovoid ovary is 1 line long, and the short erect style with its 
capitate stigma about the same. The subglobose capsule is 
nearly 4 inch long, and contains a few flattened black seeds 
each about 2 lines long and more or less oval in shape. 
Is allied to U. Petitiana, Solms, from Abyssinia, but is easily 
distinguished by its very large bulb, shorter rigid leaves, and 
dense short raceme. 
Arpuca TayLortana, sp. nov. Bulbo ovoideo a vestigiis 
membranaceis foliorum anni prioris coronato, fibris radicalibus 
tenuibus ; foliis juvenilibus nondum evolutis anguste lineari- 
bus scapo longo cylindrico nudo levi; racemo laxo 12-floro ; 
bracteis albidis scariosis ovatis acutis, nervis mediis conver- 
gentibus 3-4 rubro-bruneis notatis, pedicellos solitarios equauti- 
