Neiv and little hioivn Plants. 49 



Nerine Hattonii, Schonl. n. sp. — -Bulb ovoid, 4 cm. in diameter, 

 tunics pale bi'own ; leaves contemporaneous with the flowers, about 

 9, subdistichous, strap-shaped, thin, slightly channelled above, 

 minutely but closely ril:)bed, bright green, finally about 25 cm. 

 long, 1"5 cm. broad, apex rounded, obtuse ; peduncle green, about 

 15 cm. long, nearly 1 cm. broad, quite flat on one side, slightly 

 rounded on the opposite one : umbel 22-flowered ; spathe- valves 

 ovato-cuspidate, 3'5 cm. long ; bracts, from a deltoid base, setaceous, 

 twisted, c. 3 cm. long ; pedicels slightly flattened on one side, 

 straight except at the tip, c. 8 cm. long ; ovary sub-giobose-trigo- 

 nous, few-ovuled ; perianth 3.2 cm. long, cut down nearly to 

 the ovary, segments pale-pink, with dark red centre, oblanceolate, 

 slightly crisped ; stamens attached to the base of the perianth, 

 filaments red with a sm.all dorsal white appendage at the bas3 

 which projects slightly laterally, at first straight, later curved 

 upwards, anthers brown, pollen grey; style red,- following the 

 stam.ens in the upward bend when the pollen is shed : capsule ? 



I ripened some steds l)y placing some cut flowers in water. 

 They were as large as peas, nearly globular with smooth surface. 

 They were surrounded by a thin membranous pericarp which is 

 not likely to have been normal. 



Described from a specimen, which flowered in the Albany 

 Museum grounds, Feb. 1903. Bull) collected l)y Mrs. C. Hutton, 

 Sheldon, Cape Colony. 



Dioscorfci Ji/so)ni\ SclK'hil. n. sp.— Stem slender, scrambling, 

 glabrous, laxly leafy throughout ; leaves glabrous, entire, petiolate, 

 alternate or sometimes opposite on the same branch ; petiole about 

 12 mm. long, slightly broadened at the base ; lamina in the upper 

 leaves about 2'5 cm. long, in the lower up to 7*5 cm. long, ovate 

 or ovatp-lanceolate, mucronate, but not cordate at the base, with 5 

 (or in the larger leaves 7) somewhat prominent longitudinal nerves 

 which do not anastomose as in D. Barchellii. Male flowers in 

 axillary subspicate panicles, which are about 2"5 cm. long some 

 distance from the apex of the flowering shoots and become depau- 

 perated above, otherwise almost as in D. Burchdlii. 



Female flower and fruit unknown. 



"Ad maigiiu's sylvarum montium Zuurl)erg, Gi-iqualand Oi-ien- 

 talis, alt. l.")0()'." Leg. W. Tyson, no. LS29, Dec, 188:5. 



The above description was taken from some branches in the 

 Cape Government Herbarium which are about 50 cm. long. It 



