564 CXL. LILIACEH (BAKER). [ Gloriosa. 
forming a lax terminal corymb; pedicels long, cernuous at the tip- 
Perianth 14-24 in. long, strongly reflexing; segments lanceolate- 
cuspidate, scarcely at all crisped, 4—4 in. broad at the middle, variable 
in colour, bright red or yellow, or in the original virescens, yellow tinged 
outside with green. Filaments about half as long as the perianth; 
anthers linear, 4 in. long. Style 1-14 in. long, branched in the upper 
third. Capsule 2-24 in. long.—Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 458, 
and in Fl. Cap. vi. 526. Methonica virescens, Kunth, Enum. iv. 
277; Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 4938. M. virescens, var. Plantii, Fl. des 
Serres, t. 865. M. petersiana, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 
t. 54. A. platyphylla, Klotzsch, loc. cit. t. 55. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot, 3838! Morson! Lagos, Millen, 
7! 217! Lower Niger; Abo, Barter, 164! Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 
599! Bipinde, Zenker, 1005! and Efulen, Bates, 416 ! 
Nile Land. Kordofan, Pfund, 139! 865! British East Africa: Jur; Jur 
Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1957! Toru District; Wimi Valley, Scott-Elliot, 7876! 
Uganda; in grass-land near water, Wilson, 108! Ukamba; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 
2649! Nyika country near Mombasa, Wakefield, 25! Mombasa Island, Wakefield ! 
Wanga, Smith ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Stanley Pool, Büttner, and Leopoldville, 
Dybowski. Angola, Welwitsch, 1745! 1746! Malange, Marques, 24! German 
South-West Africa: Amboland; Amieb, Belck, 32, and at Otavi, near Water 
Berg, Dove (ex Schinz); Hereroland; near Olukonda, Schinz, 903, Rautanen, 101, 
and Omupanda, Wulfhorst, 17 (ex Schinz). 
South Central. Congo Free State: Upper Congo, at Katanga, Briart. 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar: in a clove plantation, Speke & Grant! German 
East Africa: Karagwe, 3000-4000 ft., Speke & Grant, 484! Kilimanjaro, 2000- 
3000 ft., Johnston ! Usambara; Amboni, Holst, 2154! Lake Tanganyika, Cameron ! 
Rovuma Bay, Kirk! Portuguese East Africa: Mozambique, Forbes! Peters; 
Lower Zambesi ` opposite Sena, Kirk! Shimwara Hill, at the mouth of the River 
Shire, Kirk! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, Scott-Elliot, 
8626! Plains of Zomba, 2500-3000 ft., Whyte ! Rhodesia ; Leshumo Valley, south 
of the River Zambesi, Holub ! Ngamiland; Botletle Valley, Lugard, 213! 
Also in Natal and Madagascar, 
Var, grandiflora, Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. xvii. 458. Flowers larger ` perianth- 
segments 3—4 in. long, 8—9 lin. broad at the middle.—WMethonica grandiflora, Hook. 
in Bot, Mag. t. 5216 ; Ill. Hort, viii. t. 273. M. Leopoldi, Lemaire in FI. des Serres, 
t. 163-4 (flowers yellow). — - 
‘i “dt id Guinea. Niger Delta: Grand Bassa, Vogel, 22! Fernando Po, Mann, 
Wile Land. British East Africa: in marshy ground at Abu Kuka, on the 
Bahr-el-Jebel, Petherick ! 
G. simplex, Linn, Mant. 62, and G. cerulea, Mill. Gard. Dict. edit. viii. No. 2, are 
doubtful names, which probably both belong to this species. 
3. G. minor, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1896, 132. Stem erect, 
slender, flexuose, 6-8 in. long, bearing about 20 leaves just above its 
middle, all except the lowest verticillate. Leaves sessile, linear, falcate, 
not cirrhose at the apex, the longest 24—3 in. long, under } in. broad. 
Flowers solitary, crimson; pedicels 2 in. long, erect, cernuous at the 
apex. Perianth-segments strongly reflexed, lanceolate, acute, 14 in. 
