Xnv and litth' hnowa Plants. i'l'.S 



upper flowers freijueiitly the longest, periaiith 8.1 era. long, very 

 slightly curved, c. 1 cm. broad at the base and suddenly constricted, 

 foi-ming a flattened bull), and then gradually widening out again, 

 tube about | the length of perianth, pale red, faintlj' striped with 

 darker red on the bulb, lobes with pale red centre which passes 

 into greenish-red near the tip and with almost white broad wings; 

 stamens and style exserted about 3 mm. : filaments flattened, 

 white and broadened at the base, yellow above, anthers oblong, 

 yellowish-red within, reddish-brown outside : ovary 9 mm. long, 

 cylindrical, deeply furrowed, style yellow. 



In the bitsh on sandy ground a few miles west of Palapye Road 

 Station in the country of the Bamangwatos. Flowered in Gra- 

 hamstown, March 1904. 



Like the plants which I take to be varieties of A. grandi- 

 dentata, Salm-Dyck, and which occur at various places in Griqua- 

 land West, Cape Colony, A. bamangwatenns readily spreads by 

 means of underground suckers, and thus I found it frequently in 

 patches of a variable number of individuals. From .4. grandi- 

 dentata it is easily distinguished by the large "bulb" of the 

 flower, the longer bracts and shorter pedicels, from .4. Greenii, 

 Bak., by the smaller, differently spotted leaves, straighter flowers, 

 shorter pedicels, &c. With .4. Grecnii and A. Greatheadii., Schonl. 

 it shares the greatly enlarged base of the perianth, but apart from 

 this the diffei-ences in floral structure pointed out between the 

 latter and A. grandidentata, Salm-Dyck, also hold good for the 

 present species. 



Androcymhiurn albanense, Schonl. n. sp. (Plate V., Fig 1). — 

 Corm oblong, about 1 cm. in diameter, tunics firm, dark brown : 

 underground neck 5-15 mm. long, bearing 5 rather thin foliage 

 leaves. Leaves more or less horizontal, glabrous, green with white 

 margin and brownish base, the two outer plicate, ovate-lanceolate, 

 7-8 cm. long, the inner shorter ovate. Capitulum 2-5 flowei-ed, up 

 to 15 mm. in diameter ; bracts broadly ovate, more or less folded 

 round each flower, about 15 mm. long, pedicels thick, about 3 mm. 

 long. Petals greenish white, about 14 mm. long, claw narrow, a 

 little longer than the cucullate blade ; stamens about f the length 

 of the blades of the petals, filaments from a broad base subulate, 

 reddish brown ; anthers subbasifixed, introrse, connective yellow- 

 ish, broad, poUensacs dark reddish-brown, pollen yellow ; cai-pels 

 sharp-angled on the back, ovaries about the same length as the 

 styles and gradually passing into them, stigmata minute ; capsules 

 and seeds unknown. 



