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meuts rather smaller ; 8 lower much smaller. Stamens more than 

 half as long as the segments ; filaments ^ in. long. 



Hab. Mount Kilimanjaro, alt. 5000 ft., H. H. Johnston ! Near G. 

 Quarttnianus. 



69. G. Garnierii Klatt in Linna?a, xxxvii. 511. (t. if/nescms 

 Bojer. — Corm globose, 1 in. diam. ; tunics of flattened firm parallel 

 strands. Leaves 4-5, rigid, linear, ^-^ in. broad, the lower a foot 

 or more long. Stem lA-3 ft. long. Flowers 4-6 in a very lax sub- 

 secund spike ; spathe-valves lanceolate, brownish, the lower outer 

 2-S in. long. Flowers bright red, with a narrowly funnel-shaped 

 curved tube 1^ in. long ; upper segment oblong, very cucullate, as 

 long as the tube, f in. broad; side ones similar; lower much 

 narrower and shorter, reflexing. Stamens half as long as the upper 

 segment. Capsule clavate-oblong, an inch long. Seeds broadly 

 winged. 



Hab. Highlands of Central Madagascar; first gathered by Bojer and 

 Lyall. Near G. Quarfinianus. 



70. G. Newii Baker in Journ. Bot. 1876, 334. — Corm globose, 

 1 in. diam. Leaves 3, linear, rigid, ^-^ in. broad, the lowest a foot 

 long. Stem a foot long. Flowers 2-8 in a lax spike ; spathe- 

 valves lanceolate, brownish, the lower outer 2 in. loug. Perianth 

 red-yellow, with a curved narrowly funnel-shaped tube Ih in. long; 

 iipper segments obovate-cuneate, obtuse, cucullate, as long as the 

 tube, f in. broad ; side ones similar ; 3 lowest shorter, ^ in. broad. 

 Stamens more than half as long as the segments. 



. Hab. Temperate zone of Mt. Kilimanjaro ; gathered by the Rev. Mr. New 

 in 1871. May be an alpine variety of G. Quartinianus. 



71. G. KiLiMANDscHARicus Pax in Engl. Hochgeb. Fl. Trop. 

 Afric. 175. — Corm globose, 1 in. diam. ; tunics fibrous, finely 

 reticulated upwards. Leaves 3, linear, rigid, glabrous ; midrib and 

 margin thickened, stramineous. Spike lax, 5-7-flowered ; spathe- 

 valves lanceolate, 3 in. long. Perianth S^ in. long ; tube curved, 

 narrowly funnel-shaped, 2 in. long; segments horizontal; upper 

 obovate, obtuse ; lower 3 much smaller. 



Hab. Mount Kilimanjaro, Dr. Hans Meyer. 



72. G. BRACHYANDRus Baker in Bot. Mag. t. 6463. — Corm 

 depresso-globose, very large. Produced leaves 4-5, crowded, ensi- 

 form, with free points not more than 2-3 in. long. Stem about a 

 foot long. Flowers 8-10, suberect, in a very lax equilateral spike ; 

 spathe-valves brown, lanceolate, lower outer an inch long. Perianth 

 reddish white, with a broadly funnel-shaped nearly straight tube 

 •i- in. long ; segments oblong, acute, 1^-1^ in. long, the upper the 

 longest. Stamens lialf as long as the segments. 



Hab. Zambesi highlands ; sent by Mr. John Buchanan to the Edinburgh 

 botanic garden, where it llowered in 1879. 



73. G. Leichtlini Baker in Gard. Chron. 1889, ii. — Leaty 

 stem terete, 2 ft. long. Produced leaves 4, en&iform, bright green, 

 moderately firm, a foot long, under an inch broad. Flowers 6-8, 

 in a moderately dense secund spike ^ ft. long ; spathe-valves 



