Dipcadi.] CXL. LILIACEÆ (BAKER). 523 
complicate, 4 in. longer than the inner. Anthers subsessile at the 
throat of the perianth-tube. 
Lower Guinea. German South-west Africa: Amboland ; between Olukonda 
and Unkuambi, Schinz, 36! 411! 
23. D. vaginatum, Baker. Stem slender, flexuose, 1 ft. or more 
long, with a single flat linear glabrous leaf 6-8 in. long, }-} in. broad, 
with a long sheath arising from the stem above the base. Raceme 
very lax, 4-5 in. long; lower pedicels }—? in. long; bracts small, linear. 
Perianth green; tube oblong-cylindrical, } in. long; inner segments 
ovate-oblong, nearly as long as the tube; outer caudate, spreading, 
fin. long. Stamens half as long as the inner segments ; anther larger 
than the filament. Capsule sessile, } in. diam. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Ngamiland; Kwebe, Lugard, 47! 
24. D. thollonianum, Hua, Contr. Fl. Congo Franç. Lil. 23. 
Bulb not seen. Leaf linear, moderately firm, glabrous, a foot long, 
ł in. broad. Peduncle with raceme nearly 3 ft. long. Raceme lax, 
1 ft. long, 10-flowered; bracts ovate-caudate, scariose, the lower 4 in. 
long; pedicels erect, as long as the bract, articulated at the apex. 
Perianth nearly an inch long; outer segments reddish-black, with a 
papillose tail 4 in. long; inner paler, } in. long; both 5-nerved. Fila- 
ments very short. Ovary oblong; ovules about 20 in a cell; style 
included. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: prairies by the River Jue, near Brazzaville, 
Thollon, 4076! 
No specimen at Kew. 
25. D. viride, Moench, Method. Suppl. 267. Bulb ovoid, 1 in. 
diam.; outer tunics pale. Leaves 2 or more, erect, linear, glabrous, 
sometimes 1 ft. long. Peduncle slender, fragile, 1 ft. or more long. 
Raceme very lax; lower pedicels 4 in long; bracts small, linear. 
Perianth green; tube oblong, } in. long; inner segments as long as the 
tube; outer filiform very slender, ?-1 in. long. Filaments very short : 
anthers oblong. Capsule sessile, $ in. diam.—Baker in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xi. 401, and in Fl. Cap. vi. 449. Hyacinthus viridis, Linn. Sp. 
Plant, ed. ii. 454; Jacq. Ic. t. 66. 
Wile Land. Somaliland, Miss Edith Cole! 
Also collected in the mountains south of the Equator by Bishop Hannington. 
Also in South Africa. 
19. PSEUDOGALTONIA, Kuntze in Jahrb. Kénigl. Bot. Gart, 
Berl. iv. (1886), 274. 
Perianth-tube funnel-shaped, curved; segments 6, oblong, sub- 
equal, ascending. Stamens 6, inserted at the throat of the perianth- 
tube, shorter than the segments; filaments flattened; anthers linear- 
oblong, dorsi-fixed, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sessile, oblong, 
