: ><> Annals of the South African. Mum' tun. 



glabrous (ex Baker). Injloi-rxi-rnrt- racemose, 30-48 cm. long, laxly 

 20-40-flowered. Peduncle 3-6 ft. long, glabrous. Brads '7 mm. 

 long, 4 mm. broad, boat-shaped, keeled, acuminate, with a short blunt 

 conical spur at the base, membranous, not spotted with dark markings, 

 caducous; bracteole 1, 2'5 mm. long, about 1 mm. broad, deeply 

 concave. Pedicels up to 6'2 cm. long in adult flowers, terete, glabrous. 

 Buds, just before opening, 2'5-3 cm. long, 6-8 mm. broad above, usually 

 somewhat, globose at the base, but cylindric above. Perianth-segments 

 cohering at the very base (not truly polyphyllous), 2'7-37 cm. long ? 

 4 mm. broad, linear, obtuse, glandular at the apex, glabrous, with 

 a broad baud '6 mm. wide running the length of the mid-rib. 

 ti tii-menn 1'5 cm. long, inserted at the base of the perianth-segments ; 

 filaments l - 5 cm. long, 2 mm. broad below, flattened, narrowed above 

 the middle, then lanceolate ; anthers 4'5 mm. long, ovate-oblong 

 in outline, obtuse, bluntly sagittate at the base. Ovary 6'5 mm. 

 long, 3'5 mm. broad below, ovate in outline ; style T6 cm. long, 

 widened at the apex into a stigma ; stigma 3'5 mm. across the 

 top, divided into three flat lobes T75-2 mm. long, 2-3'5 mm. broad; 

 the broadest lobe semiorbicular ; the smaller lobes each forming -| of 

 a circle. 



Damp valleys near the Kei Mouth. Peduncle rising to 4 or 5 ft. 

 from a leafless scaly bulb, flowers reddish, 15UO ft., November, 

 Flanagan, 468 ; Transkei, Keutaui, valleys ; 3-4 ft. high, erect, 

 leafless ; glossly rich brown raceme, petals thrown back ; occasional ; 

 1000 ft., November, A. Pegler, 79. 



Baker first described this plant as Ornithogalum? man-anf/i/un 

 (Journ. Linn. Soc., xiii, 280), and then changed the name to Dr'nnin 

 macranthum (Engler's Jahrb., xv, Heft iii, 7). In the "Flora 

 Capensis " the latter name stands, but the genus is queried. 



The flattened filaments and deciduous bracts would remove this 

 plant from the genus Drimia, while the deciduous bracts and flattened 

 seeds would also remove it from Ornithogalum. 



The deciduous perianth, the single-nerved keel, the insertion of 

 the filaments at the base of the perianth-segments, the discoid seeds 

 (seen in U. basutica.), and spurred bracts all point to the plant being 

 an Urginea. 



I have inserted the description in this paper so as to compare with 



it U. basutica. 



U. basutica, Phillips, sp. uov. Folia 36-52 cm. longa, -8-1-3 cm. 

 lata, linearia, acuminata, apice obtusa, glabra. Inflorescentia acl 

 27 cm. longa, laxe 12-18-florifera. Pedunculus 35-40 cm. longus, 



