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Yower Guinea. Gaboon: Mfoa, 85 miles east of Gaboon, on rocks by the 
river, Bates, 520! Lower Congo: Lutete, 1500-2000 ft., Hens, 221. Angola: 
Pungo Andongo and Huilla, Welwitsch ! 70 miles from Ambriz, Monteiro ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar, Hildebrandt, 1050! Kirk! German East Africa: 
Usambara ; Lutindi, Holst, 3265! North Liviugstone Range, Johnson! Portuguese 
East Africa: Morambala Mountain, 8000 ft., Kirk! British Central Africa : Nyasa- 
land ; Mount Mlanje, Whyte ! 
Also in South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Bourbon. 
5. H. canaliculata, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 265. 
Tuber perennial, oblong, 3—1 in. diam., crowned with the membranous 
and fibrous relics of the old leaves. Leaves many, rigid, subterete, 
channelled down the face, 3-6 in. long, } lin. diam. Peduncles 6-8 to 
a tuber, slender, pilose, 1-1} in. long, 2-flowered. Pedicels }—}in. long, 
densely pilose; bracts subulate, minute. Perianth-limb yellow, $ in. 
long; outer segments pilose outside. Stamens half as long as the 
perianth-limb. Ovary turbinate,{} in. long, densely clothed with 
whitish hairs. Capsule circumscissile round the middle.—Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 109. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in pastures, near Lopollo, Welwitsch ! 
Cunene River, Johnston ! 
6. H. malosana, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 284. Sheath- 
leaves densely pilose. Produced leaves erect, narrowly linear, firm, 
slightly hairy, 5-6 in. long, ṣẹ in. broad. Peduncles 4 to a tuft, very 
slender, much longer than the leaves, glabrous except at the tip. 
Flowers few, usually corymbose; pedicels very hairy; bracts linear, 
lowest $ in. long. Segments of the limb lanceolate, { in. long, densely 
pilose outside. Stamens very short. Ovary turbinate, densely hairy. 
Capsule circumscissile at the middle. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Loangwa Valley, Nicholson ! Nyasa- 
land; Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 
7. H. cuanzensis, Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 
Bot. i. 265. Tuber perennial, 14-2 in. long, crowned with the bristly 
relics of old leaves. Produced leaves 8—10, linear, slightly hairy, rigid, 
1-1} ft.long, 4 in. broad. Peduncles 2—4 to a tuber, 3—4 in. long. Flowers 
in a corymb; bracts linear, pilose, longer than the very short 
pedicels, Perianth-limb } in. long; segments yellow, the outer hairy 
outside. Stamens half as long as the perianth. Ovary turbinate, 
pilose, 4 in. long.—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 111. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in damp ground, Welwitsch ! 
No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 
8. H. villosa, Linn. f. Suppl. 198. Tuber perennial, 1-1} in. 
diam., crowned with copious bristles. Leaves 6-20 toa tuber, lanceolate, 
erect or falcate, 4-1 ft. long, 4-1 in. broad low down, narrowed 
gradually to the point, more or less hairy, especially beneath. Peduncles 
often 3—4 to a tuber, hairy, shorter than the leaves. Flowers 4-8 in a 
