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Hypoxis Schnitzleinia Hochst. I. c. Xerophyla Schnitzleinia Baker, 

 torn. cit. 235. Barbacenia Schnitzleinia Pax in Engl. Hochge- 

 birgsfl. 171 (1892). 



Abyssinia: near Sabra, ScMmper 1365! neai* River Tacazza, 

 Schimper 1693! without precise locality, Schimper 253! Arussi and 

 Boran Countries and South Abyssinia, Drake-Brookman 127 ! 173 ! 

 174! 183! Wellbyl 



8. V. somalensis Chiov. in Annali Bot. ix. 141 (1911). V. 

 Schnitzleinia var. somalensis Terrace, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 425 

 (1892) ; Baker in PI. Trop. Afr. vii. 410 (1898). 



Italian Somaliland: Gerar-Amaden, Gandeo and Baudi. 



9. V. teichophylla Hemsl. in Bot. Mag. Ix. t. 7962 (1904). 

 V. equisetoides var. trichophylla Baker in Fl. Trop. Afr. vii. 411 

 (1898). V. equisetoides W. Watson in Gard. Chron. 1903, ii. 425, 



tig. 167. 



Mozamb. Distr. : Nyasaland; Shire Highlands, Buchanan 162! 

 Zomba, Whyte 92 ! Johnson 497 ! without locality, Buchanan 854 ! 



10. V. equisetoides Baker in Fl. Cap. vi. 245 (1897), and in 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. vii. 1898. Xeropliyta equisetoides Baker in J. Bot. 

 xiii. 233 (1875). X. Melleri Baker, op. cit. 234. Barbacenia equi- 

 setoides Fries in Bot. Untersuch. ii. 233 (1916). 



Kalahari Region : Elliot ! Bainesl 



Mozamb. Distr. : Nyasaland ; Manganja Hills, Metier ! Between 

 Blantyre and Matope, Woods ! Zomba and east end of Lake Shirwa, 

 Metier ! Zomba, Purves 29 ! Matabeleland, Semokwe River, 

 Baines ! Mashonaland, Mrs. Cecil 82 ! 



11. V. Wentzeliana, comb. nov. Barbacenia Wentzeliana 

 Harms in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 277 (1901) ; Fries, I. c. 



Rhodesia: Unyorks, Goetze 1409! Salisbury, Band 1451! 

 Victoria, Monro 801 ! Matopo Hills, Bytes 25 ! Transvaal : Wit- 

 bank, Band 155 ! 



12. V. Eylesii, sp. nov. 



Planta pro genere parva ; caudice superne furcato ; foliis lineari- 

 bus, marginibus pubescentibus, dorso plicatis et pubescentibus, inferne 

 minus pubescentibus, pedunculis quam folia brevioribus, gracilibus et 

 pubescentibus; periyonii seymentis lanceolatis, antheris linearibus, 

 filamenta breve lata'; ovario oblongo-cylindrico, dense hirsutis. 



Shrub 15 to 30 cms. high, unbranched, with the leaves and 

 flowers arising separately from the twin apices of the stem ; leaves 

 about 14 cms. long and ! cm. broad, linear, with distinct midrib and 

 softly hairy margin, inner surface very strongly veined and covered 

 thickly with short fine hairs, outer surface similar but less hairy ; 

 peduncles slender, 12-13 cms. long, hairy; flowers pale purple and 

 scentless ; outer segments 4 # 5-5 cms. long and -5 cm. broad, lanceo- 

 late ; inner segments similar but slightly shorter; stamens with 

 linear anthers T2-1-8 cms. long and broad, filaments -2--3 cms. long ; 

 ovary turbinate, verricose, *8 cm. long, with narrow linear style and 

 columnar stigmas, of the same total length as the stamens. 



Type-locality : Rhodesia ; " Iron Mask Hill," Mazoe. 



Bytes 440 ! ' Clark ! Herb. Brit. Mus. 



Closely allied to V. suaveolens and to V. Wentzeliana, from 



