which he collected between Urundi and Karagwe, in 

 German East Africa. This has been described by Mr. 

 Baker (Fl. Trop. Afr., vol. vii. p. 459) under the name of 

 A. macrosiphon. The specimen consists of a crumpled, 

 imperfect leaf, the upper part of an inflorescence, and 

 a few old flowers; and although the species is closely 

 allied to A. Gameroni, Hemsl., the material is sufficient to 

 prove that it is specifically different. The most pro- 

 minent differences are the very much larger bracts and 

 longer pedicels. 



Descr. — An erect shrub with an unbranched stem about 

 two feet high when the drawing was made. Leaves 

 separated by short but distinct internodes, spreading, re- 

 curved, narrow-lanceolate or almost linear, nine to twelve 

 inches long, about one and a half inch broad below the 

 middle, acute, concavo-convex or plano-convex, one-third 

 to a half inch thick, green, margin furnished with rather 

 distant, spinous teeth having a broad base and an in- 

 curved tip. Inflorescence axillary, unbranched, sub-erect, 

 including the elongated peduncle about a foot long. 

 Bracts small, scarious, broad at the base, sharply acumi- 

 nate, shorter than the pedicels. Pedicels about one-sixth 

 of an inch long. Flowers almost cinnabar red, passing into 

 yellow towards the top, including the exserted stamens 

 two inches long, crowded at the top of the peduncle, pen- 

 dulous. Perianth-tube nearly cylindrical, slightly curved, 

 slightly constricted below the middle; lobes oblong, 

 obtuse, recurved at the tip. Ovary obscurely warted ; 

 style shortly exserted. — W. Botting Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, a flower; 2 and 3, anthers ; 4, gyntecenm : — all slightly enlarged. 



