2 NEW PETALOID MONOCOTYLEDONS FROM CAPE COLONY. 



entire, ovate, deeply cordate at the base, 2-3 in. long, mucronate, 

 membranous, glalDrous, triplinerved. Male flowers in lax fascicled 

 simple racemes 3-4 in. long, with a straight glabrous axis; pedicels 

 short, subtended by a pair of minute ovate-acuminate bracts. 

 Perianth infundibuliform, glabrous, l-12th in. long; segments 

 oblanceolate, obtuse. Fertile stamens 6, nearly as long as the 

 perianth-segments. Female flowers also in lax simple racemes. 

 Capsule oblong-triquetrous, glabrous, 1^ in. long, f in. broad. 

 Seeds winged at the base only. Teschidinaria nemorwn Mundt, Exsic. 



Hab. Central district, Miuult ! Dretje 8559 ! 



D. undatiloba, n. sp. — Stems very slender, wide-twining, 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate ; petiole about an inch long ; blade 

 cordate- deltoid, membranous, glabrous, bright green, 2-3 in. broad, 

 not so long, palmately 7-lobed more than half-way down to the 

 petiole, the central lobe the longest, conspicuously mucronate, 

 repand-pinnatifid, triplinerved from base to apex, the two lobes on 

 each side of it also repand, obliquely truncate at the apex, the four 

 others shorter and not lobed. Male flowers in lax simple racemes 

 1-2 in. long ; pedicels nearly as long as the flowers, each subtended 

 by an ovate-lanceolate bract. Perianth campanulate, ^ in. long ; 

 segments ovate, acute. Female flowers in lax spikes 3-4 in. long. 

 Ovary clavate, glabrous, J in. long. Female perianth campanulate; 

 segments ovate-lanceolate. Fruit not seen. 



Hab. Natal, Gerrard 1617 ! 



D. Forbesii, n. sp. — Stems slender, wide-twining, shortly 

 pubescent. Leaves alternate ; petiole ^-1 in. long ; blade digitately 

 compound; leaflets 5, sessile, oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 1-2 in. 

 long, distinctly mucronate, moderately firm in texture. Male 

 flowers in shortly-peduncled geminate spikes with a slender very 

 hairy rachis. Perianth campanulate, densely villose, l-12th in. 

 long, subtended by an ovate-lanceolate acuminate bract a little 

 shorter than the flower. Fertile stamens 6 ; filaments very short ; 

 anthers globose. Eudimentary style very short. Female flowers 

 and capsule not seen. 



Hab. Delagoa Bay, Forbes 1 



D. Tysoni, n. sp. — Stems slender, wide-climbing, glabrous. 

 Leaves alternate ; petiole 1^-2 in. long ; leaflets 5, stalked, obovate- 

 oblong, membranous, glabrous, 1-2 in. long, conspicuously mucro- 

 nate. Male flowers in 2-4-nate lax simple nearly sessile racemes 

 1-2 in. long ; pedicels ^-^ in. long, with no bract at the base, but 

 bearing a minute bracteole just beneath the flower; rachis obscurely 

 adpresso-pubescent. Perianth campanulate, ^ in. long, with a 

 short tube and oblong segments. 



Hab. Griqua-land, near Fort Donald, Tyson 1646 ! (Herb. 

 Bolus). 



HYPOXmEJE. 



Hypoxis (Ianthe) ScuUyi, n. sp. — Corm globose, ^ in. diam. 

 Leaves very thin, linear, membranous, 6-9 in. long, ^-^ in. broad 

 at the middle, distinctly distantly nerved. Pedicels 3-4 to a corm, 

 slender, glabrous, 1-flowered, 3-4 in. long. Ovary clavate, glabrous, 

 ^ in. long. Expanded limb of perianth bright yellow, an inch in 



