Dioscorea. | CXXXIX. DIOSCOREACEZ (BAKER). 421 
Hochst. in Schimp. Pl. Abyss. No. 1590; Flora 1844, Beil. 3; Asch. in 
Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Æthiop. 202. 
Wile Land. Eritrea: Keren, on Mount Deban, 4500-5500 ft., Beccari, 303 ! 
Galabat: Matamma, Schweinfurth, 586! Abyssinia: Tigre; Jelajeranne, Schimper, 
1590! British East Africa: Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1879 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla, Welwitsch, 4045! Golungo Alto, Welwitsch, 
4046 ! 4047! 4048! 4049! 4050! > 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., Johnston! 
Volkens, 2287! British Central Africa: N yasaland; River Namasi, Cameron! Shire 
Highlands, Buchanan, 69! 233! Mount Mlanje, Scott-Elliot, 8596! and without 
precise locality, Buchanan, 264! 642! 1094! 1206! 
19. D. Stuhlmanni, Harms in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 146. Stems 
slender, wide-climbing, unarmed, pubescent when young. Leaves 
alternate, distinctly petiolate, 5-7-foliolate when fully developed ; 
leaflets subsessile, penninerved, lanceolate or oblanceolate-oblong, acute 
or obtuse, glabrous or slightly pubescent beneath, reaching 3 in. long 
by 1 in. broad. Male flowers in dense axillary spikes ; bracts ovate, 
membranous, pubescent, much longer than the flowers. Perianth 
campanulate, pubescent, e in. diam.; segments ovate. Fertile 
stamens 3. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Usaramo; Bagamayo, Stuhlmann, 
6589! Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Mount Sochi, Kirk ! 
Both this and D. Holstii are closely allied to D. beccariana, 
20. D. Holstii, Harms in Engl. Pf. Ost-Afr. C. 147. Stem slender, 
climbing, unarmed. Leaves alternate, distinctly petiolate, 3—5-foliolate ; 
leaflets shortly stalked, glabrous, oblong, acute, narrowed to the base, 
33-4 in. long, 14 in. broad. Male flowers in lax 1—3-nate axillary 
spikes 2-24 in. long; bracts broadly ovate, acute or subacuminate, 
subglabrous or pubescent. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa; Usambara, Holst, 5278! 
No specimen at Kew. 
Orper CXL. LILIACEH. (By J. G. Baker.) 
Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual. Perianth 
inferior, petaloid, often persistent, with or without a tube ; segments 
usually 6, more or less distinctly biseriate. Stamens 6, opposite the 
segments of the perianth, hypogynous or inserted in the tube or at its 
throat; filaments filiform or flattened ; anthers versatile or basifixed, 
usually dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary usually 3-celled, sessile or 
stipitate ` ovules usually anatropous, 2 collateral or many superposed ; 
style simple or trifid; stigma usually capitate. Fruit a loculicidal or 
septicidal capsule or berry. Seeds globose or flattened ; testa various, 
sometimes strophiolate; albumen copious, horny or fleshy; embryo 
usually straight.—/.caulescent or caulescent herbs or shrubs, sometimes 
