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1-5 cm. long, with blades reaching 6 cm. long by 8 cm. broad ; 

 upper leaves smaller, with petioles as short as -5 cm., and blades 

 3-5 by 4 cm. ; blade divided for two-thirds of its length ; setulse of 

 stipules about 1 cm. long. Inflorescences axillary ; lower bract 

 14 mm. long, upper ones smaller. Ultimate bracteoles subtending 

 male flower broadly ovate, closely glandular dentate, 1*5 mm. long, 

 flower-stalk 1-5 mm. Calyx 3 mm. long. Corolla 5 mm. long, 

 tube 2 mm. ; lobes with a very rounded apex ; 5 opaque white free 

 wartlike glands above and alternating with the petals. Staminal 

 column (includiug anthers) 4 mm. long. Female flowers present 

 only in fruiting stage, calyx 5-6 mm. long, limbs ovate to obovately 

 oblong, pubescent, glandular-dentate. Capsule 9 mm. long, seeds 

 whitey-brown, oblong, 7 mm. long. 



Near J. Stuhlmanni Pax (in Engler's Jahrhuch, xxiii. 530), 

 collected by Stuhlmann at Sansibar, which, however, differs in its 

 longer-petioled leaves, with cordate base and acute lobes and 

 smaller male flowers. 



Acidanthera Gunnisi, sp. nov. Graminea glabra, caule 

 simplici subcompresso e bulbo globoso tenuiter reticulate ; foliis 

 elongatis anguste-linearibus, acutis subrigidis ; spica laxa 3-4- 

 flora ; spath^ valvis submembranaceis linearibus, interiore angus- 

 tiore interdum lineari-lanceolata ; perianthii tubo longo tenui 

 quam spatha plus duplo longiore, segmentis ovalibus, abrupte 

 apiculatis, basi attenuatis, candidis vel saepius purpureo tinctis. 



Hab. Wagga Mountain, in moisture at 6500 ft., end of Feb- 

 ruary, Mrs. E. Lort Phillips ; Dimoleh, Messrs. Gillett & Aylmer. 



Corm 1-5 cm. in diameter, scales rather finely reticulate, light 

 brown. Stem stiflish, smooth, green, slender, reaching 8 dm. in 

 length, 2-3 mm. wide. Leaves long and grass-like, from a long 

 narrow membranous sheathing base ; with a prominent midrib and 

 two often inconspicuous parallel veins ; the largest, near the base 

 of the stem, generally three in number, reaching 8-5 dm. in 

 length ; 2*5-4 mm. wide, becoming narrower above ; leaves on the 

 upper part of stem shorter. Spathe-valves generally between 

 4 and 6 cm. long, about 3 mm. broad when folded, greenish tinged 

 with red, the outer subtruncate. Perianth white, or more or less 

 tinged with crimson ; tube 10-12 cm. long, 1-2 mm. in diameter, 

 widening gradually above to 4 or 5 mm. at the mouth ; segments 

 3-4 cm. long by about 1*5 cm. broad; anthers l-2-l*5 cm. long, 

 reaching about half way up the perianth limb. " Very sweetly 

 scented." 



Near A. Candida Rendle (in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. 404), found 

 by Dr. Gregory on the Athi plains south of Somali-land, but a 

 much finer plant, with larger flowers, and distinguished by its very 

 long narrow-linear grass-like leaves. 



Since going to press I have received living specimens of the 

 flower from Mr. Gunnis, with whom it has bloomed at Sevenoaks. 

 The perianth-segments are recurved, with a mucronate apex, white 

 with a very pale rose-purple tinge ; the anthers are more deeply 

 tinged with the same colour, a short narrow streak of which is also 

 found at the mouth of the perianth-tube. 



