ADDENDA. 531 
linear, glaucous, glabrous, 8 in. long, 3, in. broad; spike dense, 
simple, secund; spathe-valves ovate-lanceolate, acute, ylaucous, 
tinged with violet, nearly an inch long; perianth-tube slender, 
spurred, in. long, funnel-shaped and curved at the throat ; upper 
segment oblong, acute, bright red, 13 in. long; lateral segments 
small, oblong-deltoid, acute, yellow, like the tube; segments not 
uniseriate. Schinzin Bull. Herd. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 50. 
Westen ReGion: Great Namaqualand; Aus, Steingriver, 47, Schenk, 156. 
No spevimen in Kew Herburium, : 
18a. Antholyza pulchrum (Baker); corm not seen; leaves 
erect, linear, firm, glabrous, much shorter than the stem, not 
strongly ribbed; stem terete, 14 ft., bearing 3 much-reduced 
leaves; spike lax, equilateral, 4 in.. long; spathe-valves linear- 
oblong, + in. long, the inner membranous, the outer firmer; 
perianth bright purple ; tube subcylindrical, an inch long; segments 
obovate, subequal, spreading, 3 in. long; anthers just exserted from 
the throat of the perianth-tube; style overtopping the anthers. 
_ Coast Region: Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, 500 ft., Schlechter, 7611! 
Near A. nervosa, Thunbd., and A. Lucidor, Linn. jil. 
la, Hypoxis rubella (Baker) ; corm globose, 1-1 in. diam., with 
copious, very slender root-libres; leaves about 4 to a corm, with a 
long, clasping, membranous base, and an erect subterete blade an 
inch long, ciliated on the margin with soft spreading hairs; 
flowers 1-2 to a corth ; peduncles 1-flowered, much shorter than the 
leaves, glabrous, tinged with red ; ovary obconic, glabrous, } in. long; 
segments linear, glabrous, reddish, twice as long as the ovary; © 
stamens very short. 
Katanart Region: Basutoland; near the summit of the Mont aux 
Sources, 9500 ft., submerged in water, Flanagan, 2024! No specimen in Kew 
Herbarium. 
8a, Hypoxis monophylla (Schlechter, MS. in Herb. Kew) ; corm 
globose, 3 in. diam., crowned with a dense ring of fibres ; leaf solitary, 
spreading, narrowly linear, 1-1} in. long, narrowed to the base, 
obscurely hairy ; pedancle 1-flowered, 1-1} in. long, with a clasping 
reduced leaf above the base; ovary glabrous, obconic, 5 in. long ; 
perianth-segments lanceolate, } in. long, yelluw, glabrous, the outer 
tinged with brown outside ; stamens } the length of the perianth. 
Coasr Rectow : Bredasdorp Div. ; Elim, 700 ft., Schlechter, 7615! 
Near H. curculigoides, Bolus, 
la. Gethyllis pusilla (Baker); bulb the size of a pea; leaves 
about 4, produced before the flowers, narrowly linear, glabrous, 
spirally twisted, 1} in. long ; perianth-tube very slender, straight, 
whitish, above an inch long; segments narrowly linear, reddish, 
