Hesperantha. | CXXXVI. IRIDEÆ (BAKER). 349 
pale-green, $—? in. long, hiding the inner valve. Perianth-tube slender, 
erect, 4 in. long ; segments oblong, rather shorter than the tube, the 
inner white, the outer flushed with claret-red on the outside. Anthers 
4 in. long; filaments very short. Style-branches } in. long. Ovary 
small, turbinate.— Handb. Irid. 147; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 
Afr. 174. Ixia petitiana, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 309. Geissorhiza 
abyssinica, Klatt in Linnea, xxxiv. 716, non R. Br. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Quartin-Dillon § Petit, 116! 
Var. uniflora, Baker. Much dwarfer, with narrower leaves and a single flower.— 
Hesperantha uniflora, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 309. Ixia hoch- 
stetteriana, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 309. 
Nile Land, Abyssinia: Semen; Mount Bachit, 6000-11,000 ft., Schimper, 
1239! Begemeder; Mount Guna, 11,000 ft., Schimper, 1182! 
3. H. Volkensii, Harms in Engl. Jahrb. xix. Beibl. 47, 28. 
Corm very small, globose. Produced leaves 3, sub-basal, narrowly linear, 
erect, firm, glabrous, 1 ft. long, 1 lin. broad. Stem very slender, as 
long as the leaves, with a reduced sheathing leaf at the middle, Flowers 
about 3 in a very lax spike; outer spathe-valve oblong, green, 4—3 in. 
long. Perianth-tube 4 in. long, erect, funnel-shaped in the upper half ; 
segments oblong, ł in. long, the inner white, the outer tinged with 
claret-red on the outside. Stamens half as long as the perianth-limb ; 
anthers large, linear. Style-branches } in. long.—H. kilimanjarica, 
Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 402. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro; Mamba, 8800 ft., Volkens, 
783! above Morang, to 10,000 ft., Taylor ! 
7. DIERAMA, K. Koch; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 703. 
Perianth-tube short, cylindrical, dilated at the throat; segments 6, 
subequal, oblong, spreading. Stamens inserted at the throat of the 
perianth-tube, equilateral; filaments short ; anthers linear, basifixed. 
Ovary oblong, 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style filiform, exserted 
from the throat of the perianth-tube, with short spreading entire clavate 
branches. Capsule oblong, small, membranous, loculicidally 3-valved. 
Seeds small, globose or angled by pressure.—Rootstock a large corm. 
Leaves many in a basal rosette, long, linear, rigid, strongly nerved. 
Flowers in panicled spikes; spathe-valves lanceolate, membranous. 
A genus of 2 species, both South African, only one extending into Tropical Africa. 
1. D. pendula, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 99. Corm large, 
globose ; tunics of parallel fibres produced above its neck. Basal leaves 
5-6, linear, rigid, 14-2 ft. long. Stem including the inflorescence 2-4 
ft. long. Spikes several, cernuous, with the flowers crowded towards 
the top; spathe-valves lanceolate, acuminate, ł in. long, membranous, 
brown or dotted with brown. Perianth white or pale or dark-purple ; 
tube cylindrical, 4—4 in. long; segments oblong, twice as long as the 
tube. Stamens half as long as the perianth-limb. Style-branches ys in. 
