Lapeyrousia], CXXXVI. IRIDEZ (BAKER), 355 
Stamens less than half as long as the perianth-segments. Capsule 
small, globose.—Fl, Cap. vi. 96, Anomatheca cruenta, Lindl, in Bot. 
Reg. t. 1369. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usagara Mountains, cultivated specimen 
Hannington ! 
Sent alive by Bishop Hannington to Mr. W. Mitten. 
Also widely spread in South Africa, ` 
17. L. grandiflora, Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6924. Corm globose, 
ł in. diam; tunics of fine parallel fibres. Produced leaves 6-8 in a 
rosette, linear, thin, erect, glabrous, 4-1 ft. long, }-4 in. broad. 
Peduncle 1 ft. long, terete, simple or once forked; flowers 3-6 in a lax 
spike; outer spathe-valve lanceolate, submembranous, }—} in. long, 
much exceeding the inner. Perianth bright scarlet ; tube cylindrical, 
erect, 1 in. long; segments oblanceolate, obtuse, as long as the tube, 
the three lower with a dark blotch. Stamen and style as long as the 
perianth-segments. Capsule globose, E in. diam.—Handb. Irid. 173. 
Anomatheca grandiflora, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1876, 337. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Zambesi Delta; mouth of the 
River Luabo, Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Sochi, by streams, 
Meller ! and without precise locality, Buchanan ! Johnston ! 
Also at Delagoa Bay. 
18. L. Monteiroi, Baker. Corm not seen. Basal leaves 3 ina 
rosette, thin, erect, linear, glabrous, 8-10 in. long, } in. broad. Stem 
simple, 1—2-flowered, slender, acutely angled, bearing a reduced leaf at 
the middle. Spathe-valves green, lanceolate, acuminate, the outer 
14-14 in. long. Perianth white; tube slender, 4-4} in. long; seg- 
ments oblong, 1 in.long. Filaments short ; anthers large, linear. Style 
overtopping the anthers.— Anomatheca angolensis, Baker in Journ. Bot. 
1876, 337. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Monteiro ! 
Described from a dried specimen of a plant that flowered at Kew in 1862. 
9. CROCOSMIA, Planch.; Benth, et Hook. f, Gen. PI. iii. 707, 
Perianth-tube cylindrical, dilated upwards; segments subequal, 
spreading, oblong. Stamens inserted at the throat of the perianth- 
tube, unilateral, arcuate; filaments filiform; anthers versatile. Ovary 
3-celled ; ovules few in each cell, superposed ; style filiform; branches 
spreading, entire, slightly flattened at the tip. Fruit an inflated 
globose, 3-lobed capsule, dehiscing loculicidally, with persistent charta- 
ceous valves. Seeds few, globose. 
Monotypic, 
Widely spread in the eastern part of South Africa. 
1. C. aurea, Planch. in Flore des Serres, t. 702. Rootstock a 
moderately large globose corm, with brown membranous tunics. 
