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racemosi, erecti, Pedicelli 3-8 mm. longi, apice articulati. ae 
anthium 7 mm. longum, albidum. Filamenta staminum deflexo- 
scabrido-pubescentia. 
Tooter 11k ft. or more long, about 1 lin. thick, terete, as 
glabrous. Flower-stem 2-2; ft. high, laxly paniculately branc = 
above the middle, with spreading branches 43-63 in. long, —— , 
glabrous, leafless. Bracts membranous, about 1 lin. long, broa y 
ovate, mucronate. Flowers racemose, solitary, rather me 
Pedicels suberect, 1-4 lin. long, jointed at the apex, smooth, gla A 
rous. Perianth about 34 lin. long, dirty white’ (Lugard), wit 
Xalahari Desert : near Bachakuru, Lugard, 234, ‘fae 
This species is closely allied to and much resembles A. pallid 
Bugt ilg, but has much stouter leaves, very muc 
shorter, erect (not spreading) pedicels, and smaller flowers. 
*Dipcadi platyphyllum, Baker in FI, Trop, Afr. vii., p. 518, 
web d 
*Dipcadi firmifolium, Baker in F], Trop. Afr. vil., p. 519, 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Lugard, 57 ; Mrs. Lugard, 64, 
Flowers green, 
*Dipcadi Magnum, Baker in KF, Trop. Afr. vii. p. 522, 
Kwebe Hills, 3,400 ft., Lugard, 88; Mrs. Lugard, 76. 
Flowers dull green, 
*Dipcadi Vaginatum, Baker in F'. Trop. Afr. vii. p. 523. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,200 ft., Lugard, 47: Mrs. Lugard, 56, 
Each bulb with a single leaf ; flowers green. 
*Dipcadi brevipes, Baker in Kew Bull. 1901, p. 136. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs, Lugard, 65. - 
Flowers green, 
Albuca Bainesii, Baher.— A, Lugardi, Baker in F |, Trop. Afr. vii. 
533, 
Kobis to North Shaw Valley, Baines. Kwebe Hills, 3,200 ft. 
Mrs. Lugard, 182 ; Botletle Valley, Lugard, 216. 
rous or with few or many spreading hairs on the back, and 
Sometimes ciliate, Flower-stem 3-5 ft. hi 
1-4} in. long, and alwa 8 much longer than the pedicels, not 
nome them as originally described. Lower pedicels 4-1 in. long. 
The flowers, according to Mrs, Lugard’s drawing, are —— 
of e 
yellow, with a broad stripe of darker green down the back 
segment, en 
