290 A Ihany Museum Records. 



steadily from the base to the tip, concave on the upper surface 

 convex on tlie lower, sometimes sub-ensiform in the upper portion : 

 upper surface dark green, indistinctly lineate, w^ith a small number 

 of whitish blotches, which are disposed in interrupted longitudinal 

 lines ; under surface greenish white, with more or less interrupted 

 dark green longitudinal lines, which are especially distinct 

 towards the margin, in the lower portion with irregular, dark, trans- 

 verse bands ; marginal prickles raised, deltoid or slightly curved 

 forward, 3-4mm. long, about 2 cm.- distant in the lower portion, 

 about 12 mm. higher up, separated by straight or slightly curved 

 interspaces. Inflorescence about 90 cm. high ; peduncle slender, 

 dark brown, slightly compressed at the base, without empty biacts 

 and branches for about 54 cm., then bearing at short intervals 6 loose 

 racemes in the axils of deltoid cuspidate bracts, which are about 

 4 cm. long ; floriferotis portion of the racemes about 15 cm.' long, 

 floriferous bracts scarious, deltoid-cuspidate, light-coloured, with 

 some dark brown longitudinal lines, lower c. 2 cm. long, 

 upper gradually smaller ; pedicels c.7 mm. long. Flowers erecto- 

 patent ; perianth c. 3.4 cm. long, slightly curved, tube strongly 

 swollen at the base, about f the length of the perianth, red, lobes 

 with dark red centre, outer with pale red wings, inner with 

 yellowish red wings, inner broader than the outer ; stamens, 

 when shedding their pollen, slightly but distinctly exserted, 

 filaments flattened, whitish below, yellow higher up, anthers reddish, 

 oblong ; style yellow, filiform, exserted after the pollen is shed. 



Received from Kew gardens in 1902. Flowered in Grahams- 

 town, June 1903, 1904 — Transyaal (without precise locality). 

 J. Burtt-Davy, February, 1905. 



The identity of Mr. Burtt-Davy 's specimen and the plant from 

 Kew does not admit of doubt. The Kew plant was young when 

 received, and in Aug. 1903, Mr. N. E. Brown informed me that 

 there is no other specimen at Kew which fits my description. It 

 is a most graceful foliage-plant, which I have pleasure in naming 

 in honour of Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., to whom I owe the 

 plant in the first instance. 



34 (317). A. tenu'ior, Haw. is found in the Kentani district, 

 Transkei, Miss A. Pegler, No. 138. Zeyher's No. 4183 from several 



