Lapeyrou8ia\ cxxxvi. iride^e (baker). 355 



Stamens less than half as long as the perianth-segments. Capsule 

 small, globose. — -Fl. Cap. vi. 96. Anomatheca cruenta, LindU in Bot. 

 Beg. t. 1369. 



nSozamb. Dl8t. Grerman East Africa : Usagara Mountains, cultivated specimen 

 Hannington ! 



Sent alive by Bishop Hannington to Mr. W. Mitten. 



Also widely spread in South Africa. 



17. L. grandiflora, Baher in Bot. Mag. t. 6924. Corm globose, 

 f in. diam ; tunics of fine parallel fibres. Produced leaves 6-H in a 

 rosette, linear, thin, erect, glabrous, ^-\ ft. long, \-\ in. broad. 

 Peduncle 1 ft. long, terete, simple or once forked ; flowers 3-6 in a lax 

 spike; outer spathe-valve lanceolate, submembranous, J-f in. long, 

 much exceeding the inner. Perianth bright scarlet ; tube cylindrical, 

 erect, 1 in. long; segments oblanceolate, obtuse, as long as the tube, 

 the three lower with a dark blotch. Stamen and style as long as the 

 perianth-segments. Capsule globose, J in. diam. — Handb. Irid. 173. 

 Anomatheca grandiflora, Baker in Journ. Bot. 1876, 337. 



nXozamb. I>ist. Portuguese East Africa : Zambesi Delta ; mouth of th«' 

 River Lnabo, Kirk ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mount Sochi, by streams, 

 Meller ! and without precise locality, Buchanan ! Johnston ! 



Also at Delagoa Bay. 



18. Ij. Monteiroiy Baker. Corm not seen. Basal leaves 3 in a 

 rosette, thin, erect, linear, glabrous, 8-10 in. long, \ in. broad. Stem 

 simple, 1-2-flowered, slender, acutely angled, bearing a reduced leaf at 

 the middle. Spathe-valves green, lanceolate, acuminate, the outer 

 1;|-1 J in. long. Perianth white ; tube slender, 4-4^ in. long ; seg- 

 ments oblong, 1 in. long. Filaments short ; anthers large, linear. Style 

 overtopping the anthers. — Anomatheca angolensis, Baker in Journ. Bot. 

 1876, 337. 



JtO-wcT- Guinea* Angola, Monteiro ! 



Described from a dried specimen of a plant that flowered at Kew in 1862. 



9. CROCOSMIA, Planch. ; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 707. 



Perianth-tube cylindrical, dilated upwards ; segments subequal, 

 spreading, oblong. Stamens inserted at the throat of the perianth- 

 tube, unilateral, arcuate ; filaments filiform ; anthers versatile. Ovary 

 3-celled ; ovules few in each cell, superposed ; style filiform ; branches 

 spreading, entire, slightly flattened at the tip. Fruit an inflated 

 globose, 3-lobed capsule, dehiscing loculicidally, with persistent charta- 

 ceous valves. Seeds few, globose. 



Monotypic. 



Widely spread in the eastern part of South Africa. 



1. C. aurea, Planch, in Flore des Serres, t. 702. Rootstock a 

 moderately large globose corm, with brown membranous tunics. 



