50 1RIDEx (Baker). [Aristea. 
ribbed, a foot or more long, 3-3} in. broad; stems stout, erect, 
14-2 ft. long, strongly ancipitous in the lower half, furnished with 
several erect sheathing leaves, terete upwards, as is the axis of the 
inflorescence ; clusters several, large, globose, sessile, arranged in a lax 
spike, each subtended by an ovate cuspidate bract of rigid texture ; 
spathes } in. long; outer valves with a firm centre and brownish 
margin, not -lacerated ; inner entirely membranous; perianth-limb 
in. long; capsule oblong, subsessile, obtusely angled, }~4 in. long. 
aker in Journ. Linn, Soc. xvi. 111; Handb. Irid. 141; Klatt, 
Ergénz. 47. 
Coast Recion: Grahamstown, MacOwan, 195! 
Katanani Recion: Transvaal; Saddleback Range, near Barberton, 4000- 
5000 ft., Galpin, 1015! 
Eastern Recion: Griqualand East; near Clydesdale, Tyson, 2874! Natal, 
Wood, 738! 
5. A. compressa (Buching. ex Krauss in Flora 1845, 309, nomen) ; 
thizome cylindrical; fibres short, wiry; leaves of radieal rosette 
linear, moderately firm in texture, strongly ribbed, 6-12 in. long, 
3-4 in. broad ; stem 1-1} ft. long, moderately stout, compressed and 
ancipitous throughout, furnished with 2-3 sheathing short leaves ; 
clusters numerous, small, arranged in a lax deltoid panicle, with 
alternate erecto-patent branches, all sessile, or one or two of the 
lower peduncled; spathes j in. long; outer valves with a green 
eentre and white-brown edge; inner entirely membranous, not 
lacerated on the margin; perianth-limb } in. long, segments oblong ; 
stamens half as long as the limb; anthers small, oblong; capsule 
oblong, nearly sessile, black, glabrous, obtusely angled. + in. long. 
Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 111; Handb. Frid, 141, 
Eastzen Reoion;: Griqualand East: near Clydesdale, Tyson, 2872! Natal 
Krauss, 858! Sanderson, 376! Gerrard, 1141893! ’ 
6. A. platycaulis (Baker in Gard. Chron. 1887, i. 732); leaves firm, 
ensiform, a foot long, an inch broad ; peduncle as long as the leaves, 
flat, and broadly winged ; inflorescence a deltoid panicle 8—9 in. 
long ; main axis flattened, } in. diam.; clusters dense, lateral, 
sessile ; spathe-valves small, lanceolate ; perianth } in. long; capsule 
small, oblong, obtusely angled. Handb. Irid. 142, ; 
Eastern Reoion : Coast of Pondoland. 
eg pan: from a plant flowered in April, 1887, by Mr. J. H. Tillett, at Sprowston, 
7. A. majubensis (Baker in Journ. Bot. 1891, 70); basal leaves 
3-4, rigid, linear, 3-4 in. long; stem slender, obscurely ancipitous, 
6-8 in. long, bearing 1-2 rudimentary leaves ; panicle 1—2 in. long, 
composed of 3-4 clusters on short, ascending peduncles ; outer 
a antie el tree) a long, ge a brown centre and membranous 
e; perianth brig ue, } In. long; capsule small, oblong, obtusely 
pete Meme ne Handb. rid. 142. A. Cooperi, Baker, Handb. 
