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Subgenus Ovieda. Basal leaves usually 1-2, close or super- 

 posed. 



Spathe-valves small .... Sp. 1-14. . 



Spatiie-valves large .... Sp. 15-26. 



Subgenus Anomatheca. Leaves several, forming a distichous 

 basal rosette. Stem elongated, branched. . Sp. 27-29. 



Subgenus Sophronia. Leaves and flowers congested into a 

 dense sessile rosette Sp. 30-32. 



Subgenus I. Ovieda. 



1. L. erythrantha Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 155. Ovieda 

 erythrantha Klotzsch in Peter's Mossamb. Bot. 516, t. 18. — Conn 

 ovoid, f-1 in. diam. ; tunics thick, fibrous. Produced basal leaves 

 1-2, linear, erect, a foot or more loug. Stem, including inflores- 

 cence, 1-2 ft. long, ancipitous, branched from low down ; flowers 

 crowded at the tips of the branchlets ; spathe-valves oblong, ^ in. 

 long. Perianth bright red, with a cylindrical tube ^-^ in, long 

 and oblanceolate segments ^ in. long. Stamens nearly as long as 

 the segments. 



Hab. Mozambique ; hills over the lower part af the Zambesi. 



2. L. ABYssiNicA Baker in. Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 155. Geisso- 

 rhiza ahyssinica K. Br. Monthretia abi/ssinica Plochst. M. galla- 

 hatensis Schwein. — Corm ovoid, ^-| in. diam. ; tunics thick, reticu- 

 lated. Produced basal leaves 3-4, linear, 3-6 in. long. Stem 

 ■|~1 ft. long including the inflorescence, subterete at the base, 

 branched from the middle or below it ; flowers 2-6, laxly spicate ; 

 outer spathe-valve oblong-lanceolate, J in. long. Perianth lilac, 

 with a cylindrical tube as long as the spathe and oblanceolate 

 segments ^ in. long. Stamens more than half as long as the 

 segments. 



Hab. Mountains of Abyssinia. First gathered by Salt. 



3. L. ccERULEA Schinz in Verhand. Bot. Vereins. Brandeu, xxxi. 

 212. — Corm ovoid, -| in. diam.; tunics thick, cancellate. Basal 

 leaves 1-2, narrow linear, erect, 6-9 in. long. Stem very slender, 

 subterete, a foot long including the inflorescence, branched from 

 halfway down ; branches feAV, with 1-2 flowers at the top ; outer 

 spathe-valve oblong, green, ^ in. long. Perianth lilac, with a tube 

 as long as the spathe and oblanceolate segments ^-\ in. long. 

 Stamens nearly as long as the segments. 



Hab, Damaraland, Dr. Schinz ! Very near the Angolan L. Welwitschii 

 Baker. 



4. L. Welwitschii Baker. — Corm ovoid, ^ in. diam., with thick 

 reticulated brown tunics. Basal leaves 2, narrow linear, J ft. long. 

 Stem slender, terete, 8-12 in. long including the inflorescence, 

 branched from below the middle ; flowers 1-3, placed near the tip 

 of the branchlets ; outer spathe-valve ovate, -J- in. long. Perianth 

 pale purple, with a tube J in. long and oblanceolate segments of the 

 same length. Stamens moi'e than half as lontj as the segments. 



