50 THE PLANTS OF MILANJI, NYASA-LAND, 
or its branches, rigid ; sheath brown, 2-3 inches long; blade of the outer leaves 1-14 ft. 
long, 5-7 lines wide near the base, gradually tapering to a filiform apex; the inner are 
proportionately smaller, flattened, glabrous, with a scabrous margin, toothed in the young 
leaf, and a midrib prominent on both surfaces. Peduncle single-flowered in the axil 
of ensiform, slightly shorter bracts ; 6-9 in. long, 4-2 line thick, thickly covered with short, 
dark emergences. Perianth-cup very short, fleshy, and covered with protuberances like 
the ovary. Perianth-limbs ovate-lanceolate, 21-21 in. long by 6-9 lines wide; there is 
a small scale at the base on either side the insertion of the anther; apex acuminate and 
falcate ; the base of those of the outer whorl covered with black emergences like those on 
the short perianth-tube, which are also continued up the central veins nearly to the apex, 
diminishing upwards in size and number. Anthers sessile, inserted on the perianth-limb 
about 1 line above their base, ligulate, 9 lines long ; connective slightly prolonged (4 line) 
beyond the anther. Ovary turbinate, 3 in. long, clothed with emergences like the 
peduncle. Style 13 in. long. 
Hab. Milanji. 
The short caudices bear magnificent clusters of flowers, which are larger than in any 
species hitherto described. 
SMILAX KRAUSSIANA, Meisn. in Flora, 1845, p. 312. 
Hab. Milanji, 6000 ft., Oct., nos. 119 & 152; Natal; East Tropical Africa; Sierra 
Leone; Cape Verd. 
ASPARAGUS VIRGATUS, Baker, in Saund. Refug. Bot. t. 214. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct.; Cape of Good Hope; Natal; East Tropical Africa (Rev. W. 
E. Taylor, Herb. Mus. Brit.), Morang and between Zanzibar and Uyui; Maungu 
(H. H. Johnston ; Kilimanjaro Exped.). 
ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS, Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. p. 613. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct.; Cape of Good Hope; Kaffraria; Natal; Nyasa-land (Buchanan, 
nos. 750 & 1470). 
HYLONOME RETICULATA, Webb, Phyt. Can. iii. p. 320. 
Hab. Milanji Plateau, Oct., no. 60; Cape of Good Hope; Natal. 
DRIMIA ROBUSTA, Baker, Saund. Refug. Bot. t. 190. 
- Hab. Milanji, Oct., no. 6; Cape of Good Hope; East aia (W. Tyson, 
no. 1108). 
URGINEA MARITIMA, Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 221. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct., no. 192; Canary Islands; Mediterranean; S. Africa. 
URGINEA NYASA, Rendle, sp. n. Herba bulbo parvo; foliis hysteranthis ignotis; scapo 
. glabro, subcompresso, sspe flexuoso, inferne purpureo, 7-8-pollicari; racemo 
