46 Albany Museum Records. 



On some new and some little-known species of South African 

 plants. — By Dr. S. SCHoSLAND, Hon. M.A. Oxon. 



FciJla (sect. Ledehouria) liypoxidioid^fi, Schihil., n. sp. — Bulb 

 ovoid, tunicated, 3-4 cm. in diameter, tunics brown, membranous ; 

 leaves contemporaneous with the flowers, 4 — G in number, up to 

 11 cm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, sheathing at the base ; sheath 

 glabrous, whitish inside, purplish outside ; lamina unspotted, 

 green, or faiHy spotted wiih darkgreen, covered on both 

 ^urfacespnd along the margin with a dense indumentum 

 composed of soft white hairs ; 1 or two inflorescences 

 to each bulb ; peduncle glabrous, more or less curved, 5 — 12 cm. 

 long, pale green near the has?, blotched with dark red higher up, 

 with one or more longitudinal furrows, somewhat flattened on 

 one side ; raceme dense at first, later rather loose, 1 — 12 cm. long, 

 2 — 3 cm. wide ; bracts minute, lanceolate ; pedicels slender, spread- 

 ing, curved downwards, perianth in bud oblong, constricted above 

 the base ; petals in the open flower darkgreen with lighter margins, 

 lanceolate with cucullate apex, about o mm. long, of which a little 

 over ^ is upright, the remainder spreading ; stamens inserted a little 

 above the base of the petals, and a little shorter than these ; fila- 

 ments slightly flattened, subulate : anthers broadly oblong, 

 vevsatile : pollen pale yellow ; ova-y shoi-tly stipitate, minutely 

 liairy, subsemiglobose, deeply G lobed, lobes rounded at the back ; 

 style filamentous, dark violet : stigma 3-lobed ; capsule pale straw- 

 coloured, surrounded by the persistent petals, 3-(or more frequent- 

 ly) 2-merous, loculiciJal ; sj3ds 1 oi- 2 in each cell, reddish brown, 

 strongly wrinkled. 



Grahamstown, Jan. 1903, Mit-s M. Daly and Miss M. Sole, no. 43o. 

 — This species was since i.fc first discovery, only a few months ago, 

 found l:»y Miss Daly ai.d Miss Sole in several places all round 

 Grahamstown. It grows amongst grass and also in rocky situa- 

 tions at an altitude of about 1700' — 23Ui)'. Its silky-haii-ed leaves 

 rjsemble thos'^ of some species of H!//io.r/s, which are very com- 

 mon here, and for this reasjii it had probably been hitherto over- 

 looked. 



