502 CXL. LILIACEH (BAKER), [ Chlorophytum. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Falaba, 3500 ft., Scott-Elliot, 5306! near 
Makunde, Scott-Elliot, 5703! 
Nile Land. Galabat, Schweinfurth, 9! British East Africa: Taita; Ndi 
Mountain, Scott-Elliot, 6278 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe, 4000-5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 
8205! British East Africa: Nyasaland; Elephant Marsh, North Nyasa, Scott! 
Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 135! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte! Mount 
Mlanje, Whyte! Mount Zomba, Whyte & MceClounie ! Fort Johnston, Scott-Elliot, 
8407! 
25. C. vaginatum, Hua, Contr. Fl. Congo Franç. Lil, 22. Crown 
of root densely setose. Produced leaves 3, clasping the base of the 
stem, rigid, closely ribbed, ciliated on the margin, the lower small, the 
others oblong-lanceolate, 6-10 in. long. Peduncle short, terete, hidden by 
the sheathing bases of the leaves. Racemes dense, 2-3 in. long, simple 
or forked ; bracts ovate; pedicels very short, fascicled, articulated at the 
middle. Perianth-segments yellow, lanceolate, } in. long. Stamens 
shorter than the perianth; anthers linear. Style short. Capsule 
winged, } in. long. Ovules 10-15 in a cell. 
North Central. French Congo: at the Mission Post on the Kemo River, 3 
tributary of the Mobangi or Dua River, Dybowski, 744! 
No specimen at Kew. 
26. C. pusillum, Schweinf. ex Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, 329. 
Rootstock an oblong tuber, bearing many slender fibres. Leaves about 
4 to a tuft, oblong, spreading, membranous, glabrous, 4-5 in. long by 
half as broad, sessile, crisped at the margin. Raceme dense, simple, 
1-2 in. long, sessile in the centre of the rosette of leaves ` pedicels short, 
clustered, articulated ; bracts lanceolate, membranous, the lower Am, 
long. Perianth 4 in. long; segments lanceolate, white with a greenish- 
brown keel. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; anthers linear, 
shorter than the filaments. Capsule globose, } in. diam. 
Nile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2043! 
27. C. brachystachyum, Baker in Gard. Chron, 1893, xiii. 710. 
Root-fibres cylindrical, fleshy. Leaves 6-8 to a stem, moderately firm, 
lanceolate, light green, glabrous, 6-8 in. long, 1-14 in. broad at the 
middle, narrowed gradually to the apex and sessile base, much crisped 
and conspicuously ciliated on the margin. Peduncle very short. 
Raceme dense, oblong, branched at the base; pedicels very short, the 
lower geminate; lower bracts lanceolate, ciliated. Perianth white, 4 in. 
long ; segments oblong, reflexing from a basal cup. Stamens as long 
as the perianth ; anthers oblong. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan ! 
Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in the autumn of 1893. 
28. C. stenopetalum, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 331; 
Rootstock small, globose ; root-fibres slender, not bearing tubers. Leaves 
about 6 to a stem, thin, glabrous, lanceolate, 8-12 in. long, 1-1} in. 
