SYNOPSIS OF THE AFKICAN SPECIES OF XEROPHYTA. 235 



costa, whicli, like the edge in the upper part, is distinctly serrulate. 

 Scapes filiform, one-flowered, quite naked, 1^-2 inches long. Ovary 

 obconic naked, a line deep. Perianth-limb 4 lines deep, whitish, with 

 lanceolate segments, naked on face and back. Anthers sessile } inch 

 long, ligulate. Style as long as the anthers, filiform, with a minute 

 oblong stigma. Natal, Gueinzius I 



9. X neglecta, Eoem. & Schult. Syst., Veg., vii., 289. — Fully 

 described by the younger Schultes in this work, as cited, from speci- 

 mens in the herbarium of Martins, said to have been gathered in 

 Mauritius by Commerson. There may have been some mistake about 

 the station, as the plant has not been found in the island by Bojer or 

 any other more recent collector. 



10. X dasylirioides^ Baker, n. sp. — Leaves 8-9 in a subsessile 

 rosette, linear, a foot long, \ inch broad at the base, tapering gradually 

 to the point, very firm and rigid in texture, naked, with obscure fine 

 nervation, the midrib triquetrous beneath, the edges thickened and 

 distinctly toothed down to the very base. Scape a foot long, flexuose, 

 one-flowered, naked in the lower half, green, but densely faruished 

 with black, sessile, viscid glands in the upper half. Ovary turbinate, 

 \ inch long» clothed with glands like those of the peduncle. Perianth- 

 limb above an inch long, the divisions linear, darker coloured and 

 densely glandular towards the base on the outside. Stamens ligulate, 

 half an inch long. Madagascar, on the mountains of Antoungoun, iu 

 the province of Emirna, Bojer ! 



11. X Schnitzleinia, Baker. — Schnitzleinia amica, Steud, in 

 Schimp. PL Abyss. Exsic, No. 1365. Hypoxis Schnitzleimsi, Ifochst. 

 in Eegens. Elora, 1 844, 3 1 . Caudex 1 -2 inches long, crowned by a dense 

 mass of pale brown string-like fibres. Leaves about half a dozen to 

 rosette, linear, flat, 1 J-1 foot long, 2-3 lines broad, acuminate, naked 

 on both sides, with close, fine nervation, subcoriaceous, the midrib 

 below little raised, the edge in the upper part obscurely serrulate. 

 Scapes 3-6 inches long, one-flowered, naked in the lower two-thirds, 

 densely clothed with short conspicuous bristles at the top. Ovary 

 globose, I inch deep, densely clothed with brown ascending bristles 

 half a line long. Perianth-limb 9-12 lines long, the lanceolate acute 

 whitish segments naked on both sides. Anthers ligulate. subsessile, 

 ^-■^ inch long. Mountains of Abyssinia, Schmper, 253 ! 1365 ! 1693 ! 



12. X. viscosa, Baker, n. sp. — Caudex unknown. Leaves to a 

 rosette 5-6, linear, 6-8 inches long, 2 lines broad, acuminate, rigidly 

 coriaceous, slightly viscose towards the base, the ribs close and distinct, 

 the keel beneath very acute, distinctly denticulate all the way down, 

 like the edges. Scape 6-8 inches long, one-flowered, matted with 

 black glutinose tomentum down to the very base. Mature ovary 

 oblong-turbinate, ^-f inch long, completely coated with the same 

 black glutinose tomentum. Perianth-Hmb an inch long, a beautiful 

 rose colour, the linear segments dotted with black glands all the way 

 down. Anthers ligulate, half as long as the perianth segments. 

 Faku territory. South Africa, Dr. Sutherland ! Eree State ; highest 

 peak of the Wettebergen Mountains, amongst crumbling ironstone, 

 Mrs. Barber, 749 ! 



The Brazilian species that belong to the genus as Xerophyta here 

 defined are : — 



