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glabra, viridia. Cymae ad apicem ramorum subsolitariae erectae ; 
pedunculi 1-1°5 em, longi, 2°3-2°5 mm. crassi. Bracteae squami- 
formes, 2-3 mm, longae, subquadratae vel oblongae, paserar eos 
membranaceae; bracteae florentes 5-6 mm, longae, 0°8-1 ecm. 
latae, transversim ellipticae, obtusissime rotundatae, minute apicu- 
latae, glabrae, pulchre coccineae. Involucrum 3°5—4 mm. diametro, 
campanulatum, glabrum, glandulis 5 transverse ellipticis coccineo- 
rubris, Ovarium breviter stipitatum, inclusum, glabrum ; styli e 
basi liberi, filiformes, 2°5 mm, longi, rubro-coccinei, apice clavati, 
atro-fusci. 
Origin unknown, but probably a native of Madagascar or 
neighbouring islands, since the species most nearly allied to it all 
come from there. The above description is made from a plant 
cultivated at Kew, raised from a cutting — from the Botanic 
Garden at Durban by Mr, A. Hislop in 1911 
1464, Anchomanes Dalzielii, V. #. Brown | Aroideae~Pythonieae] ; 
affinis A. Welwitschii, Rendle, sed spadice ree longiore et ovario 
laevi in stylum brevem abrupte contracto differt 
Herba tuberosa. Folium solitarium ; petiolus 0°6-1 m. longus, 
spinosus ; lamina triramosa ; ram i 20-38 c cm. longi, 15-45 em, lati, 
ad medium furcati, pianauaonti glabri, segmentis inferiovibs 
late ovatis vel obliquis acutis vel acuminatis terminalibus cuneatis 
vel cuneato-oblongis bicuspidatis. Pedunculi elongati, en. 
Spatha 20-22 em, Tonga, basi convoluta, superne concayo-lanceolata, 
acuta, glabra, alba, Spadix 13-15 em. longus, 1°5 cm. crassus, 
cylindricus, obtusus, parte feminea 2-3 cm. ‘longa. Ovarium 
oblongum vel obovato-oblongum, apice subtruncatum, in stylum 
1 mm. longum abrupte contractum, laeve. 
Tropica Arrica. Northern Nigeria; Kontagora Province, 
Dalziel 563. 
1465. Gladiolus Masoniorum, C. 7. Wright [Iridaceae-Ixieae]; 
ex affinitate G. sulphuret, de Graaf a qua lobis perianthi brevi- 
oribus spathisque acuminatis 
Folia 5°3 dm, longa, 1 em. leh, pee apiceque attenuata, utrinque 
hirsuta, costa crassa, nervis marginalibus validis. Racemus 30 cm. 
longus, glaber; spathae herbaceae, glabrae, exterior lanceolata, 
acuminata, 3°5 cm. longa, 1°2 em. lata, interior minor, 3 em. longa. 
Perianthium cremeum, ‘ad faucem pallide luteum, intra tubum viride ; 
tubus 2 cm. longus, anguste infundibuliformis ; lobi 5 superiores 
subaequales, 3 cm. longi, 2 em. lati, obtusi, undulati ; lobus inferior 
1°5 cm. latus. Antherae cremeae. Stigmatis lobi spatulati, 3 mm. 
longi. 
Sours Arrica. Described from a plant which flowered in the 
Cambridge University Botanic Garden in May, 1913, from aa 
eoltedtad? in Tembuland by Canon G. EF. and Miss M. H. Mas 
1466. Moraea revoluta, C. H. Wright cect, 
M. spathaceae, Ker, affinis, floribus solitariis, sepalis revolutis sty- 
lique ey: differt. 
Cor 2°5 cm. diametro, tunicis brunneis reticulatis vestitus. 
Caulis | isha: Folia circa 3, 7°5 dm. longa, 1 cm. lata, rigida, 
crassiuscula, glabra, acuminata, convexa, anguste canaliculata. 
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