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w bit f(\ n NA Ii A ! J : 0&st t at * ast 2 ' 000 fe et above sea level. Coast, Septem- 

 ber, Wood 310 ; Ndwedwe, July, Wood 948 ; Inanda, March, Wood 896 Palmiet 

 December, Wood 7503. 



Drawn and described from the Palmiet specimens. 



In a report on Wood's 310 from Kew, this plant is said to be M. biflora Cav 

 but not the typical form, and in a later report on Wood's 896, it is said " Seems to 

 be intermediate between M. biflora, DC, and M. ovata, Cav." It appears, however 

 to us to correspond fairly well with Bcklon & Zeyher's plant so far as we are able 

 to judge from the short description given in the " Flora Capensis," but we have no 

 authentic specimen with which to compare it. The flowers vary in size, and are 

 sometimes 3 to 4 times as large as those of M. biflora, DC, but all the 'measure- 

 ments have been made from dried specimens. 



It is most likely that this plant has the same properties as M. biflora, ar,d M. 

 ovata of the Cape Colony, Transvaal and Free State, but so far as we are aware it 

 has not been tested in any way. 



Fig. 1, Plant natural size; 2, Section through flower ; 3, Flower, calyx and 

 corolla removed ; 4, Staminal tube opened ; 5, Stamen ; 6, Carpels in situ ; 7, Same, 

 a carpel detaching ; 8, Section through ovary ; all enlarged. 



PLATE 98. 



CHLOROPHYTUM HAYGA' THII, Wood & Evans. 

 Natural Order, LILIACE.E. 



Boot fibres cylindrical, fleshy, 3-4 inches long. Radical leaves 5 to 8, broadly 

 linear, very firm in texture, old ones breaking up into numerous fibres at base; 8 

 to 1 2 inches long, 4 to 7 lines wide, narrowing gradually to both ends, finely 

 ciliate, otherwise glabrous, with 30 to 40 close prominent ribs. Stem-leaves much 

 smaller, gradually decreasing in size upwards, sheathing at base. Peduncle stout, 

 terete, simple, 4 to G inches long to base of inflorescence, pubescent in upper por- 

 tion, glabrous below. Raceme 6 to 9 inches long, many flowered. Bracts 2 to 

 each flower, outer broad-based, long-acuminate, scarious, 10 to 13 lines long, 4 to 5 

 lines broad ; inner much shorter, lacerate at apex. Pedicels erecto-patent, 1 line 

 long, solitary. Perianth, white with green stripe, 7 lines long, oblong, segments 

 narrowing to apex, keels 3-ribbed. Stamens 6, a little shorter than perianth. 

 Capsule ovoid, triquetrous with obtuse angles. Seeds numerous. 



Habitat: ZCLITLAND: Nkandhla, December, 1898, Haygarth. (Wood No. 7 446.) 

 Drawn and described from the specimens gathered by Haygarth as above. 



Amongst South African species this comes nearest to C. vaginatum, Baker, is 

 more robust but not so tall, the racemes are longer, the bracts and perianth much 

 longer, leaves are more distinctly ribbed, and firmer in texture, and the flowers are 

 different in colour. So far as known to us it has only been collected in the above 

 named locality. 



Fig. 1 , Plant natural size ; 2, Section through flower; 3, Upper and lower 

 bracts ; 4, Petal ; 5, Stamen ; 6, Section through ovary ; 7, Portion of peduncle 

 with ripe capsules in situ ; all enlarged. 



