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minibus perianthio duplo brevioribus; stylo curvato, elongato; capsulis globosis; semi- 
nibus in loculo 2-3. | 
Fibri radicales graciles, duri. Folia pedalia et ultra, membranacea, supra basin 6-9 lin. lata, venis 
а costa utrinque 12-15 distinctis. Scapi 6-9-pollicares. Racemi semipedales et ultra. Bracteæ ante 
anthesin longe protrusæ, inferiores 9-12 lin. longæ. Pedicelli inferiores 5-6 lin. longi, ascendentes. 
Perianthium 6-8 lin. longum, segmentis medio 12 lin. latis. Capsula 4 lin. longa et lata, apice profunde 
emarginata. 
Hab. Swamps of Rubuga country, Col. Grant ! (Chlorophytum, sp., App.Speke's Journ. 
649.) 
А close ally of C. longifolium, Schweinfurth, from which it differs by its larger flower and bracts and 
longer pedicels, articulated at the middle. 
(Grows to 20 inches in height, and is found in swamps at 5° 40' S. lat., alt. 3800 feet ; flowers 22 
at the beginning of the year—J. А. G.] 
Plate CIV. fig. 1. Detached flower with pedicel; fig. 2. Тһе same, expanded ; ge, 8. 
Pistil; fig. 4. Horizontal section of ovary. 
8. GLORIOSA VIRESCENS, Lindl. Bot. Mag. tab. 2539; App. Speke’s Journ. 650.— Me- 
thonica virescens, Kunth, Bot. Mag. tab. 4938, excl. syn. 
Hab. Zanzibar and Karagué, 3000-4000 feet. Common amongst thickets, Col. Grant ! 
[Flowers in March at Karagué, and in Zanzibar during September. Found clinging from the tendrils 
at the tips of the leaves. Flowers bright orange-yellow.—J. A. G.] 
ÅSPARAGACEÆ. 
1. SANSEVIERA GUINEENSIS, Willd.; Kunth, Enum. v. 16. 
Hab. On ant-heaps, Madi, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant! (Sanseviera, sp., App. Speke's 
Journ. 649.) 
“(6 to 8 feet high from the earth to the end of the flower-stalk. The stem has four distinct and several 
other grooves. The lower part of the flower-stalk has sheathing leaves, which are succulent, 4 feet long, 
and 11 inch across their bases, spotless, with entire edges. The flowers, in January, were dead and 
worm-eaten; but three to four grow on the angular portion of the stem along its whole length. The 
Waganda make beautiful white rope from its leaf-fibre; they pull the fibre through a flat stick and the 
dead stem of a plantain-tree till all juice has gone. This process is best done when the leaves have dried 
for a few days.—J. A. G.] 
2. DRACÆNA ELLIPTICA, Thunb. ?— Р. javanica, Kunth, Enum. v. 12? 
Hab. Unyoro (leaf only), Col. Grant! (Dracena, sp., App. Speke’s Journ. 650.) 
[During November, at Unyoro, amongst tropical vegetation, this was 10 to 15 feet high, in fruit, 
which clustered on the ends of the branches. Each fruit was a berry with an opaque seed. The Unyoro 
people make capital fences, 8 feet high, of its stems, called “ m”popo m'weeto (the wild beetle) ; but I 
did not see the resemblance.—J. А. G.] 
3. ASPARAGUS PAULI-GULIELMI, Solms, in Schweinf. Beitr. 208. Fruticosa, glabra; 
ramis gracillimis, elongatis, virgatis, interdum subscandentibus; spinis parvis, copiosis, 
uncinatis ; cladodiis subulatis internodio longioribus solitariis vel geminis ad nodos flori- 
feros sæpe obsoletis ; floribus minutis, hermaphroditis, geminis ; pedicellis flore longioribus, 
prope basin articulatis ; perianthii segmentis oblongis. 
Folia etiam ramulorum ultimorum basi in spinam parvam duram stramineam producta. Internodia 
suprema 1-12 lin. longa. Cladodia 2-4 lin. longa, erecta, stricta. Pedicelli patentes, 23-3 lin. longi. 
Perianthium 1 lin. longum. vu 
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