Eriospermum. | CXL. LILIACEX (BAKER). 473 
rather shorter than the perianth; filaments flattened; anthers sub- 
globose, minute.—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 162. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; subtemperate region, 3800-5500 ft., Wel- 
witsch, 3760! 
9. E. linearifolium, Baker. Tuber not seen. Leaves 2, con- 
temporary with the flowers, linear, glabrous, 2-3 in. long, AA in. 
broad. Peduncle 14-3 in. long. Raceme lax, few-flowered ; pedicels 
ascending; lower 4 in, long; bracts small, persistent, broadly ovate. 
Perianth oblong, } in. long ` segments oblong, white, with a brown keel. 
ee nearly as long as the perianth ; anthers small, oblong. Style 
ong. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Mbuyuni, common on dry sand, Scott-Elliot, 
6203 ! 
10. E. triphyllum, Baker in Engl. Jahrb. xv.471. Tuber globose, 
under 1 in. diam., crowded with the fibrous relics of old leaves. Leaves 
3-4, contemporary with the flowers, lanceolate, acute, erect, glabrous, 
narrowed to the base, 5-6 in. long, 4-4 in. broad at the middle. 
Peduncle slender, shorter than the leaves. Raceme few-flowered, about 
l in. long; pedicels ascending, finally } in. long ; bracts minute, broadly 
‘ovate. Perianth } in. long ; segments white, tinged and keeled with 
red-brown. Stamens distinctly shorter than the perianth-segments ; 
anthers much shorter than the filaments. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Ukamba; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 2651! 
Mozamb. Dist. (Gi Ligaijo, Fischer, 607! 
11. E. ophioglossoides, Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
ser. 2, Bot. i. 262. Tuber globose, crowned with a ring of the long 
matted fibrous relics of old leaves. Leaf solitary, shortly petiolate, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 1-3 in. long, -š in. 
broad at the middle, rather rounded at the base. Peduncle stiffly 
‘erect, 5-6 in. long. Raceme lax, oblong, 3-4 in. long; pedicels erecto- 
patent, the lower 4—ł in. long; bracts very minute, ovate, red-brown. 
Perianth campanulate, 4 in. long; segments linear-oblong, white with a 
‘bright red-brown keel. Stamens rather shorter than the perianth ; 
anthers minute; filaments subulate—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 
162. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; subtemperate region, in damp pastures, 
Welwitsch, 3759! 
12. E. paludosum, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 261. 
‘Tuber oblong or subglobose, 3-1 in. diam., crowned with copious fibrous 
relics of old leaves. Leaves 2-3 to a tuber, contemporary with the 
flowers, shortly petiolate, oblong, acute, subcoriaceous, glabrous, cuneate 
at the base, 1-2 in. long, 6—9 lin. broad. Peduncle 4-6 in. long. 
Raceme lax, 3—4 in. long; rhachis flexuose; pedicels ascending, lower 
in fruit 1 in. long; bracts very minute, deltoid, clasping. Perianth 
$ in. long ; segments oblong, white, with a red-brown keel. Stamens 
rather shorter than the perianth ; filaments filiform ; anthers minute. 
