Tas. 7962. 
VELLOZIA tricuoprytna, 
Native of Eastern Tropical Africa. oe 
Nat. Ord. AMARYLLIDACE&.—Tribe VELLOZIEA. 
Genus Vettozia, Vand. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 739.) 
Vetioz1a trichophylla; frutex caudice vel trunco brevi crassissimo demum 
saltem 1 ped. diametro, ramis primariis paucis crassis, innovationibus 
numerosis brevissimis, foliis numerosis gramineis vix rigidis 3-9 poll. 
longis (in speciminibus sylvestribus sape 1-2 ped. longis rigidioribusque) 
medio circiter 6 lin. latis acutis multinerviis distincte costatis utrinque 
moiliter pubescentibus vel fere lanatis in margine non setulosis, pedun- 
culis szpius ternis unifloris cum ovario tomentoso 24-4 poll. longis 
suberectis, floribus rubro-lilacinis fragrantibus 2}-3 poll. diametro, 
perianthii segmentis «qualibus lanceolatis acutis 1}-14 poll. longis 
patentibus, tubo nullo, staminibus 6 antheris subsessilibus 5-6 lin. longis, 
ovario inferiore triloculari multiovulato stylo clavato stamina equante, 
capsula ignota. 
V. trichophylla, Hemsi. 
V. equisetoides, var. trichophylla, Baker in Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vii. p. 411. 
V. equisetoides, W. W. in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. ii. p. 425, £. 167. 
Our figure was drawn from one of several fine plants 
sent to Kew in 19038, by Mr. J. McClounie, Head of the 
Scientific Department, Zomba, British Central Africa. 
As will be seen from the above references, Mr. J. G. 
Baker treated this plant as a variety of his V. equisetoides, 
but living plants and further wild specimens offer characters 
that fully justify, as Mr. Baker grants, their specific 
separation. ‘Typical V. equisetoides has much longer 
primary branches; the leaves are shorter and glabrous, 
except that they are minutely setulose on the margin and 
along the midrib on the under surface. The leaf-bases 
break up early, and present something like the appearance 
of the bristled sheath of an Hquisetum. 
‘Specimens of a third species have been referred to 
V, equisetoides in the Kew Herbarium’:— 
V. Kirxu, Hemsl.; caule erecto cylindrico simplice vel 
furcato 3—1 poll. diametro elongato, foliis gramineis sub- 
erectis 6-9 poll. longis medio circiter 3 lin. latis acutis 
ecostatis glabris in margine primum paucisetulosis in siccis 
luteis rigidis, foliorum basibus persistentibus compactis 
JuLy Ist, 1904. 
