42 NEW PETALOID MONOCOTYLEDONS FROM CAPE COLONY. 



only as forms of one, one being the woodland plant, the other of 

 open ground. — A. B.] 



*' (Tab. 2703). Scirpus bifoHus Wallr. habitu et rationibus 

 quibusdam biologicis, non autem characteribus e flore fructuque 

 sumtis differt e S. riifo Huds., quare hujus subspecies potius quam 

 species distincta esse videtur. In Dania paucis modo locis occurrit 

 et ubique rara esse videtur. Semina matura non legi, quare an 

 constans sit, cultura probare non potui." [Undoubtedly this has 

 a very different appearance from Scirpus [Blysmus) rufus ; the 

 difference seems really only varietal, not subspecific, but that is, of 

 course, a matter of opinion. — A. B.] 



Tab. 2791. — " ZannichelUa macrostemon J. Gay h«c tabula in- 

 scripta est. Nomeu Z. jmlustris L. CoUectivum est, et postquam 

 plures species distinct^ sunt, baud servari potest. Distinctio a. b. 

 J. Gay facta inter formam staminibus brevibus {brachystemon) et 

 longioribus (macrostemon) secundum observationes a cl. P. Nielsen 

 factas nota baud constante fundata est, cum species macro- et 

 brachystemones promiscue occurrent, quare idem nomen Z. marincB 

 proposuit (Bot. Tidskr. v. p. 204) cujus forma vulgaris est haec 

 nostra, antheris 4-locularibus instructa cum alia forma [intermedia 

 Nielsen) antheris 2-locularibus distinguetur." 



(Tab. 3008-9). — " Formse 2 Plantaginis lanceolatm tarn inter se 

 quam a speciei typo divergentes in his tabulis repraesentantur, altera 

 (var. depressa Rostr.) in insulis faeroeensibus lecta, glabra, foliis 

 latis, scapis crassis, profunde sulcatis, decumbentibus, altera 

 (v. eriophi/Ua Dene.) ad littora BornholmiaB et alibi obvia, foliis 

 angustioribus dense lanatis, scapis gracilibus distincta." 



NEW PETALOID MONOCOTYLEDONS FEOM CAPE 



COLONY. 

 By J. G. Baker, F.R.S., F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 4.) 



LlLIACE^. 

 ASPARAGE^. 



Asparagus Saundersiae, n. sp. — Stems slender, sarmentose, 

 woody, terete, stramineous, glabrous ; prickles small, spreading, 

 pungent ; branchlets spreading or ascending, very slender, acutely 

 angled, not zigzag. Cladodia 3-4-nate, subterete, rigid, ascending, 

 about ^ in. long, rounded on the back, flat or rather channelled on 

 the face. Piacemes spreading from the main woody branches, lax, 

 about an inch long ; pedicels very slender, solitary, articulated above 

 the middle, the lower ^ in. long ; bracts minute, ovate, white. 

 Perianth l-12th in. long ; segments oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 

 spreading horizontally. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; 

 anthers globose, very minute. Ovary pedicellate ; style very 

 short. 



Hab. Natal, Mrs. Katherine Saimdersl Near A. racemosus Willd. 



