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DIERAMA PENDULA, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 99. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct.; South-eastern provinces of Cape Colony, and northward to Natal 
and Mt. Kilimanjaro. 
GLADIOLUS (§ EUGLADIOLUS) MELLERI, Baker, in Journ. Bot. 1876, p. 334. 
Apparently a fine form; the flowers and capsules are considerably larger than the 
type, but I do not think it-can be separated as a distinct species. 
Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft., Oct. 1891 (4. Whyte, nos. 171, 195); Zambesi Highlands 
(Meller & Kirk; Herb. Kew.); Namuli, Makua Country (J. T. Last; Herb. Kew; 
Nyasa-land, 1891 (Buchanan, no. 1333; Herb. Kew.). 
GLADIOLUS ($ HEBEA) Oarest, Rolfe, in Oates, * Matabele-land,’ edit. 2. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct. 1891 (4. Whyte); Matabele-land (Oates); Zambesi Highlands 
(Buchanan, no. 464); Transvaal (Holub). 
CYRTANTHUS Wetwitscutt, Hiern, ex Baker, in Journ. Bot. 1878, p. 197. 
A smaller plant than the type, but evidently the same species. A very similar 
specimen was recently collected by Buchanan. 
Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft., Oct. 1891 (A. Whyte, nos. 130 & 149); Huilla (Welwitsch, 
no. 4028); Nyasa-land (Buchanan, no. 993). 
HYPOXIS ANGUSTIFOLIA, Lam. Encye. iii. p. 182. 
Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft., Oct., no. 119); Kaffraria; Orange Free State ; Tropical Africa 
(Angola, Moramballa, Zanzibar) ; Madagascar, Mauritius, and Bourbon. 
VELLOZIA ($ XEROPHYTA) SPLENDENS, Rendle, sp. n. (Plate VIII.) Caulescens, sesqui- 
pedalis, caudicibus crassis, valide tunicatis, simplicibus vel furcatis; foliis rosulatis, 
rigidis, vagina brunnea 2-3-pollicari, lamina lineari-subulata, complanata, glabra, 
margine scabrida; floribus solitariis in axillis bractearum ensiformium, quam 
pedicelli nigricantes scabridi vix breviorum ; perianthii lobis ovati-lanceolatis, apice 
acuminatis, falcatis; antheris sessilibus ligulatis; ovario turbinato, velut pedunculi 
scabrido. 
Caulescent, about 14 ft. high. Caudices 2-17 in. thick, with a woody cylinder 4-6 lines 
thick, the rest composed of a mass of imbricating brown sheaths with strong longitudinal 
ribs; simple or forked. Leaves about six in number, rosulate on the top of the caudex 
in shape, 5 lines long by 14 broad above the middle; those of the outer whorl are slightly narrower, with a thick, 
dark-coloured midrib, forming a slightly apiculate apex. The oblong capsule is 3 in. long, on a shorter pedicel. 
Hab. Mt. Kilimanjaro, 7000 ft., 1884 (H. H. Johnston, no. 14); higher slopes up to 10,000 ft. above Morang 
(Rev. W. E. Taylor, 1888 ; Herb. Mus. Brit.). : | 
Johnston's specimens are referred in Baker's ‘Monograph of lridez, p. 141, to Aristea alata, as a dwarfed form 
of the species, but are distinguished by the leafless and narrowly winged peduncle, A. Tayloriana is a smaller 
plant than A, Johnstoniana, from which it also differs in the shape of its perianth-lobes, which are longer, 
narrower, and more spathulate. 
SECOND SERIES.—BOTANY, VOL. IV. H 
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