culi dorso tomentosi, interiores breviores, plani subscariosi, apice solo tomentelli. Stamina 
fauci affixa, perianthi breviora, fil ti i lis liberis ; antherz oblongo-lineares, 
erect», basifix:e. Ovarium 3-loculare, glandula annulari circa styli basin coronatum, 
loculis co-ovulatis ; stylus filiformis, e perianthi ib , apice stigmatoso minute 
3-dentatus. Capsula coriacea, nitidula, loculieide 3-valvis. Semina pauca, angulata, 
matura non vidimus.— Caulis lignosus, elatus, ramosus, compressus, acutangulus. Folia 
erecta, ensif. ; equitantia, rigidula, superi. minora conferta. Bractez ad axillas 
foliorum superiorum co, rigide, complicatze, quasi in Spica bifariam imbricatz, ab infe- 
rioribus ad 2 summas gradatim aucte.  Spathe ad axillas bractearum summarum 
sepius geminz, bractea multo minores. Flos intra spatham 1 (v. 21) subsessilis, bracteas 
imbricatas longe superans. Bractea seu bracteola intra spatham ea paullo brevior. — 
Species 1, Afriez australis incola. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi 108. Red. Lil. t. 245, 463. 
Bot. Reg. t. 5... Maund, Botamist, t. 120. — Fl. des Serres, Aug. 1846, t. 4. 
38. Klattia, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 109.—Perianthii tubus brevis, cylin- 
draceus, ad os constrictus ; lobi zequales, erecti, unguibus longe lineari-subulatis fila- 
mentis similibus, superne vix in ligulam erectam linearem obtusam dilatatis. Stamina 
senielignosus, ramosus. Folia disticha, conferta, ensiformia, equitantia, rigidula, summa 
gradatim in bracteas bifariam imbricatas abeuntia. Flores intra bracteas summas gemini 
(v. 3-4 1) sessiles, singuli spatha bracteas multo breviore bracteolaque subsimil i stipati. 
Perianthii lobi fil if , cum fil is veris styloque e bracteis longe e: i. 
Capsule bracteis incluso. 
Species 1, Afriez australis incola (WWitsenia partita, Ker). 
Flores, apud Klattium in Linnza xxxiv. 516, in quaque spica 10 ad 15, in speciminibus nostris 
paria 2 intra bracteas 1-2 superiores invenimus, comam densam filamentorum formantes, 
Taurus IIL — Ixrg x. 
39. Sehizostylis, Backh. et Harv. in. Bot. Mag. t. 5492. —Perianthii tubus tenuis, vix 
in faucem brevissimam ampliatus ; lobi :equales, oblongi v. ovati, patentes. Stamina ad 
faucem affixa, filamentis filiformibus liberis ; antherze lineares, sagittatse. Ovarium 3- 
loculare, loculis 2o-ovulatis ; stylus brevis, ramis longis filiformil indivisis, int 
in longitudine papillosi Capsula obovoidea v. oblonga, vertice truncata, 3-sulea, mem- 
branacea, loculicide 3-valvis. Semina numerosa, angulata.—OCaules in rhizomate fasci- 
culati, ebulbosi v. basi leviter bulboso-incrassati. Folia linearia v. anguste ensiformia. 
Spathz secus ped i impli; dissitz, subdistichze, vi. ies, l latz, com- 
plicatze. ^ Flos in spatha sessilis. Bractea spatha angustior, virescens v. subscariosa, 
2-carinata. Perianthium speciosum, rubrum. 
Species 2, Afric australis incole, — Baker in Journ. Linn. S;c. xvi. 108. — Kla/t in Linnea, xxxv, 
380. Lemaire, Illustr. Hortic. t. 394 (a Bor. Mag. repetit). — Pl. des Serres, t, 1637, 
40. Hesperantha, Ker im Kon, el Sims, Ann. Bot. i. 294.— Perianthii tubus tenuis, 
longiusculus, abbreviatus v. brevissi , rectus v. decurvus ; limbus patens v. demum 
reflexus, lobi angusti, sub:equales, v. exteriores swpe paullo majores rigidiores et intensius 
colorati. Stamina ad faucem affixa, filamentis brevibus erectis ; anther:e lineari-sagittatze, 
erectis. Ovarium obovoideum v. oblongum, 3-loculare, loculis oo-ovulatis ; stylus brevis 
Swpius brevissimus, ramis multo gioribus filiformibus superne int papillosi; 
b ea, obtusa, loculieide 3-valvis. Semina globosa v. angulato-compressa. 
—PBulbi tunics leves, Coriacez, interdum a basi solutos deorsum imbricatze, caule sim- 
