JJioscorea.] cxxxix. DioscoREACEiE (baker). 421 



Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss. No. 1590 ; Flora 1844, Beil. 3 ; Asch. in 

 Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. ^thiop. 202. 



wrile Z.ancl. Eritrea : Keren, on Mount Deban, 4500-5500 ft., Beccari, 303 ! 

 Galabat : Matamma, Schweinfurth, h^Q \ Abyssinia : Tigre ; Jelajeranne, iScAmjucr, 

 1590 ! British East Africa : Jur ; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1879 ! 



Iiower Guinea. Angola : Huilla, Welwitsch, 4045 ! Golungo Alto, Welxoitsch, 

 4046 ! 4047 ! 4048 ! 4049 ! 4050 ! 



BKozamb. Hist. German East Africa: Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., Johnston! 

 Volkens,2i2S'7\ British Central Africa : Nyasaland; River Namasi, Cameron / Shire 

 Highlands, Buchanan, 69 ! 233 ! Mount Mlanje, Scott-Elliot, 8596 ! and without 

 precise locality, Buchanan, 264 ! 642 ! 1094 ! 1206 ! 



19. D. Stuhlmanni, Harms in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 14G. Stems 

 slender, wide-climbing, unarmed, pubescent when young. Leaves 

 alternate, distinctly petiolate, 5-7-foliolate when fully developed ; 

 leaflets subsessile, penninerved, lanceolate or oblanceolate- oblong, acute 

 or obtuse, glabrous or slightly pubescent beneath, reaching 3 in. long 

 by 1 in. broad. Male flowers in dense axillary spikes ; bracts ovate, 

 membranous, pubescent, much longer than the flowers. Perianth 

 campanulate, pubescent, —^ in. diam. ; segments ovate. FertUe 

 stamens 3. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 



Mozamb. Blst. German East Africa : Usaramo ; Bagamayo, Stuhlmann, 

 6589 ! Kirk ! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Mount Sochi, Kirk ! 

 Both this and D. Holstii are closely allied to Z>. heccariana. 



20. D. Holstii, Harms in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 147. Stem slender, 

 climbing, imarmed. Leaves alternate, distinctly petiolate, 8-5-foliolate ; 

 leaflets shortly stalked, glabrous, oblong, acute, narrowed to the base, 

 3J-4 in. long, IJ in. broad. Male flowers in lax 1-3-nate axillary 

 spikes 2-1^ in. long ; bracts broadly ovate, acute or subacuminate, 

 subglabrous or pubescent. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 



XMIozaxnb. X>lst. German East Africa ; Usambara, Hoist, 527b ! 

 No specimen at Kew. 



Order GXL. LILIACE^, (By J. G. Baker.) 



Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual. Perianth 

 inferior, petaloid, often persistent, with or without a tube ; t^egments 

 usually 6, more or less distinctly biseriate. Stamens 6, opposite the 

 segments of the perianth, hypogynous or inserted in the tube or at its 

 throat; filaments filiform or flattened; anthers versatile or basifixed, 

 usually dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary usually 3-celled, ses.sile or 

 stipitate ; ovules usually anatropous, 2 collateral or many superposed ; 

 style simple or trifid ; stigma usually capitate. Fruit a locuhcidal or 

 septicidal capsule or berry. Seeds globose or flattened ; testa various, 

 sometimes strophiolate ; albumen copious, horny or fleshy; embryo 

 usually straight.— Acaulescent or caulescent herbs or shrubs, sometimes 



