426 MR. A. B. RENDLE ON THE 
Ornitnocarum Ecxtont, Schlecht. in Linnea, xxv. p. 177. 
Kithunguln, Kikuyu Country, shrub-covered plateau with 
deep gorges: J. W. Gregory, July 11, 1893. 
Distrib. South and Tropical Africa. 
Scrrta (§ LepEBourtA) TayLortana, sp. nov. Herba glabra ; 
bulbi ovoidei squamis minute maculatis ; foliis synanthiis tenuibus 
papyraceis late lanceolatis, apice acutis, basi in petiolum convo- 
lutum angustatis ; scapo subrobusto terete cum racemo lineari- 
oblongo folia superante; bracteis scariosis minutis subulatis ; 
pedicellis patentibus vel suberectis, inferioribus infra medium 
articulatis; floribus campanulatis; perianthii segmentis ligu- 
latis basi in cupulam brevem connatis, apice papillosis, medio uni- 
vittatis, inferne lilacino-purpureis sursum viridescentibus ; stami- 
nibus perigynis perianthio brevioribus, filamentis velut stylo 
saturate purpureis; ovario viridi breviter stipitato, 3-dymo, lobis 
bicornulatis; stylo centrali filiformi; capsule lobis fertilibus 
a sutura interna dehiscentibus ; semivibus solitariis magnis 
bruneis ovoideis apice cristatis. 
Hab. Rabai Hills: W. E. Taylor, Sept. 1885. 
A plant about 15 inches high, with a bulb about 1 inch thick, 
the membranous scales of which are finely dotted with white 
marks. The three produced leaves are extremely thin and 
papery, with a number (14 or more) of strongly-marked veins 
united by numerous thin transverse ones, the pointed broadly 
lanceolate blade is about 6 inches long by 13-13 inch broad, 
tapering gradually to a petiole (about 2} inches long) which is 
convolute in the dried specimen. The scape, including the 
raceme, is 14-19 inches long, the raceme being 5-11 inches, and 
about 1j inch in breadth. The pedicels are 32 to 6 inches long ; 
the upper longer ones tinged with lilac-purple, the lower green. 
The flowers are about 4 lines or a little more in length; the 
lower part of the perianth is lilac-purple in colour but passes 
into green above. The narrow segments are ligulate, slightly 
broader at the top, 34-4 lines long by $line broad, and bear a 
tuft of short white hairs at their tips. The purple filiform fila- 
ments are 2} to 3 lines long; the small, shortly oblong yellow 
anthers 3 line long. The shortly stalked ovary passes above its 
base into three lobes, each with a broad apex flanked by a par 
of short horns; the purple style springs from the centre of the 
ovary between the lobes, and is 4 lines long. In the fruit one or 
