ffypoxis.] CXXXVII. AMARTLLIDEiE (bAKER). 379 



l»o-weT Guinea. Gaboon : Mfoa, 85 miles east of Gaboon, on rocks Vjy the 

 river, Bates, 520! Lower Congo: Lutete, 1500-2000 ft., IIe7is, 221. Angola: 

 Pungo Andongo and Huilla, Welwitsch ! 70 miles from Ambriz, Monteiro ! 



Mozamb. I>lst. Zanzibar, Hildehrandt , 1050 ! Kirk ! German East Afrita : 

 Usarabara ; Lutindi, Hoist, 3265 ! North Liviugstone Range, Johnson 1 Portuguese 

 East Africa : Morambala Mountain, 8000 ft.. Kirk ! British Central Africa : Nyasa- 

 land ; Mount Mlanje, Whyte ! 



Also in South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Bourbon. 



5. H. canaliculata, Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 2G5. 

 Tuber perennial, oblong, |-1 in. diam., crowned with the membranous 

 and fibrous relics of the old leaves. Leaves many, rigid, subterete, 

 channelled down the face, 3-6 in. long, | lin. diam. Peduncles 0-8 to 

 a tuber, slender, pilose, 1-1 J in. long, 2-flowered. Pedicels J-Jin. long, 

 densely pilose ; bracts subulate, minute. Perianth-limb yellow, J in. 

 long; outer segments pilose outside. Stamens half as long as the 

 perianth-limb- Ovary turbinate, \ in. long, densely clothed with 

 whitish hairs. Capsule circumscissile round the middle. — Baker in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 109. 



JMOvrer Guinea. Angola : Huilla ; in pastures, near LopoUo, Welwitsch ! 

 Cunene River, Johnston ! 



6. H. malosana. Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 284. Sheath- 

 leaves densely pilose. Produced leaves erect, narrowly linear, firm, 

 slightly hairy, 5-6 in. long, ^^ in. broad. Peduncles 4 to a tuft, very 

 slender, much longer than the leaves, glabrous except at the tip. 

 Flowers few, usually corymbose ; pedicels very hairy ; bracts Hnear, 

 lowest \ in. long. Segments of the limb lanceolate, \ in. long, densely 

 pilose outside. Stamens very short. Ovary turbinate, densely hairy. 

 Capsule circumscissile at the middle. 



Mozamb. Blst. British Central Africa : Loangwa Valley, Nicholson ! Nyasa- 

 land ; Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! 



7. H. cuanzensiSy Welw. ex Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, 

 Bot. i. 265. Tuber perennial, lJ-2 in. long, crowned with the bristly 

 relics of old leaves. Produced leaves 8-10, linear, slightly hairy, rigid, 

 1-1 J ft. long, J in. broad. Peduncles 2-4 to a tuber, 3-4 in. long. Flowers 

 3-4 in a corymb ; bracts linear, pilose, longer than the very short 

 pedicels. Perianth-limb | in. long; segments yellow, the outer hairy 

 outside. Stamens half as long as the perianth. Ovary turbinate, 

 pilose, ^ in. long. — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 111. 



JMO^xrer Guinea. Angola : Puiigo Andongo ; in damp ground, Welwitsch ! 

 No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 



8. H, villosa, Linn. f. Supj^l- 198. Tuber perennial, 1-1 J in. 

 diam., crowned with copious bristles. Leaves 6-20 to a tuber, lanceolate, 

 erect or falcate, ^-1 ft. long, i-1 in. broad low down, naiTOwed 

 gradually to the point, more or less hairy, especially beneath. Peduncles 

 often 3-4 to a tuber, hairy, shorter than the leaves. Flowers 4-8 in a 



