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common also in Zaria and in large numbers at Tilde 
Filani and Naraguta 
Distrib—Apparently endatnies: according to Dalziel it occurs 
all over N orthern Nigeria except in the north; Hausa 
“Takalmin zomo ”’ = hare’s slipper. A very beautiful species 
worthy of mite: 
IRIDACEAE. 
Aristea angolensis, Baker; F.T.A. vii. 347. 
_ hee Bukuru and Hepham, “a ft., 4 July, 
t. high, flowers bright blue, No. 
Distrib. Sc eeoe hitherto only from ‘isda? 
Lapeyrousia montana, Hutchinson, sp. nov.; affinis L. Sander- 
sonti, Baker, species transvaalensis, sed perianthii tubo multo 
breviore differt 
Herba glabra, circiter 30 cm. lata, superne laxe ramosa; 
caulis suleatus, flexuosus, basin versus circiter 2-5 mm. crassus. 
Folia pauca (2-3), linearia, acuta, 10-15 cm. longa, 1-5-2-5 mm. 
lata, rigida, trinervia. I nflorescentia laxe cymosa, ramis pauci- 
floris flexuosis; bracteae lanceolato-ovatae, acutae, circiter 
7 mm. longae, membranaceae, apicem versus coloratae. Peri- 
anthium coeruleum; tubus 1 cm. longus, inferne cylindricus, 
superne sensim expansus; lobi unguiculati, oblanceolati, acute 
apiculati, 1 cm. longi, circiter 4 mm. lati, striati. Stamina 
perianthii segmentis breviora; filamenta 4 mm. longa; antherae 
4 mm. longae, obtusae. Stylus staminibus paullo longior, ramis 
1-75 mm. ee apice bifidis. Ovariuwm late ellipsoideum, 
2-5 mm. longu 
NORTHERN isi: Top of Zaranda Mt., 5800 ft., 18 May, 
1921, 1-14 ft. high, flowers blue, with dark purple spot at base 
of tube, H. V. Lely No. 189. Neill’s Valley, 2 miles east of 
Government Station, Naraguta, June 15, No. 271. 
Gladiolus spicatus, Klatt.; F.T.A. vii. 369. 
Plains between Hepham and igh 4600 ft., 5 July, 9-24 ins. 
high, flowers red-purple, No. 
Distrib.—Endemic to Northern Nae 
Gladiolus Quartinianus, A. Rich. ; F.T.A. vii. 371. 
Neill’s Valley, 2 miles east of Naraguta Government Station, 
rocky places, 15 June, flowers orange spotted and streaked, 
No. 256. Naraguta, 4000 ft., open grass country, 30 May, 
flowers yellow green, No. 244; this number probably 
represents the form described by Baker as G. primulinus, 
later merged by him in G. aig aig 
Gladiolus unguiculatus, Baker ; F.T.A. vii. 
Baradau, eg ae 3 May, 2-3 ft. high, flowers pink and 
white, 
Distrib.—Sierra cris to Eastern Sudan and Nyasaland. 
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