60 THE PLANTS OF MILANJI, NYASA-LAND, 
remarkable for the deeply bifid flowering glumes and the avenoid habit. It is especially 
near the former, its spikelets being 3-flowered, but is distinguished by its smaller sterile 
glumes, slightly broader, very inconspicuously nerved fertile ones, and broader flattened 
leaf-blade. The awn, moreover, is not sharply geniculate, but flexuose. 
GYMNOSPERMA. (By A. B. RENDLE, M.A., F.L.S.) 
WIDDRINGTONIA WuHYTEI, Rendle, sp. n. (Plate IX. figs. 6-10.) Arbor monoica ; ramis 
et ramulis fastigiatis, illis teretibus, foliorum vestigiis ligneis notatis, his subteretibus 
cum squamis arcte spiraliter imbricatis, infra adnatis, supra patentibus subpungenti- 
WipDRINGTONIA WHYTEI. 
From a photograph taken at Milanji, alt. 7500 ft., 12th Dec., 1893. 
bus; squamis in ramulis ultimis decussatis, subquadratis, apice crassis; strobilis 
masculis solitariis, terminalibus, ovalibus; antheris 8, decussatis, orbiculari-ovalibus, 
bracteis geminis, subtendentibus; foemineis 4-6 in ramulo brevi aggregatis, sub- 
