Anthericum. | CXL. LILIACEA (BAKER). 487 
long, with one empty bract half-way up. Panicle 3-4 in. long, formed 
of a few short few-flowered ascending branches; pedicels short, articu- 
lated at the middle. Perianth } in. long; segments with a 7-nerved 
green keel. Anthers 4 in. long ; filaments filiform, glabrous. Capsule 
in. long. 
gebeten Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Mount Mlanje, Whyte, 
No specimen at Kew. 
32. A. Giryameze, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 412. Rhizome 
stout ; root-fibres many, cylindrical. Leaves 3 to a stem, lanceolate, 
plicate, rigid, glabrous, with a thickened margin, 1-1} ft. long, 1 in. 
broad. Peduncle 3 ft. long, much compressed, acutely angled. Panicles 
in the axils of distant bracts; flower bracts minute, ovate, reddish. 
Perianth nearly 4 in. long ; segments oblong-lanceolate, tinged with red, 
5-7-nerved in the keel. Anthers linear, 4 in. long, twice as long as the 
flattened glabrous filaments. 
Nile Land. British East Africa: Giryama and Shimba Hills, near Mombasa, 
Taylor ! 
No specimen at Kew. 
33. A. orchideum, Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 
Bot.i. 258. Rootstock tuberous, oblique, sending out long slender root- 
fibres; neck crowned with copious fibres. Leaves laxly disposed over 
the lower part of the stem, oblong, acute, 4-9 in. long, 14-1} in. 
broad, subcoriaceous, glabrous, not ciliated on the margin. Peduncle 
3-8 in. long, subterete, not angled upwards. Raceme dense, usually 
simple, 3—4 in. long; pedicels ascending, articulated at the middle, 
4-4 in. long; bracts large, lanceolate, longer than the buds. Perianth 
4 in. long; segments linear-oblong, white, with a laxly-nerved red- 
brown keel. Stamens much shorter than the perianth; anthers as 
long as the glabrous filaments. Capsule globose, } in. diam.; valves 
horizontally plicate.—Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 160. 
Lower Guinea, Angola: Huilla; at the foot of the Serra de Monino, in damp 
grassy places, 3800-5500 ft., Welwitsch, 3806 ! 
34. A. superpositum, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, 324. Rootstock 
and root-leaves not seen. Peduncle 2—24 ft. long, stiffly erect, bearing 
3—4 sessile oblong acute subcoriaceous glabrous leaves, 3—6 in. long, 
12-21 lin. broad at the middle, with thickened stramineous margins. 
Racemes 1-3, lax, 2-3 in. long ; pedicels short, ascending, articulated at 
the middle, the lower 3—4-nate; lower bracts lanceolate, as long as the 
pedicels. Perianth } in. long; segments linear, with a green keel. 
Stamens nearly as long as the perianth; anthers small. Capsule sub- 
globose, 4 in. diam. 
Wile Land. British East Africa: Niamniam ; by the River Ibba, Schweinfurth, 
_ ser, iii, 174! 
35. A. benguellense, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 257. 
Cxspitose,with slender root-fibres, not bearing tubers ; root-neck crowned 
