Asparaffiis.] cxl. liliace^ (baker). 429 



much shorter than the filaments. Berry the size of a small pea. 



Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. G13; Grant ct Baker in Trans. Linn 

 Soc. xxix. 161, t. 105. 



Upper Guinea. Lagos : interior districts, Rowland ! Abeokuta, Irving, 70 ! 

 Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter, 1125 I 



Wile ]band. Nubia, Prince Paul Williom of Wurtemburg, Cienkowski. 

 White Nile, Petherick ! British East Africa : Jur ; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 

 1400 ! 1513 ! ser. iii. 109 ! Denka Territory : Rek District, Schweinfurth, 1921 ! 

 Madi, Speke Sf Grant ! Uganda, Wilson, 41 ! 



Jto-wer Guinea. Hereroland, Hopfner, 65 (ex Schinz). 



BKozamb. Blst. German East Africa : East shore of Lake Tanganyika, Scott- 

 Elliot, 8285 ! Portuguese East Africa : Zambesi Delta ; Kongoni River, Kirk ! 

 British Central Africa : Nyasaland; in woods between Blantyre and Matope, Scott I 



Var. Daltoni^ Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 613. Flowers smaller than in 

 the type ; segments narrower, subacute ; pedicels all abruptly deflexed. 



Upper Guinea. Niger Territory : Rabba, on the River Niger, Dalton ! 



lo. A. bechuanicus. Baker. A climber. Stems slender, woody, 

 with close copiously pinnate slender glabrous branches. Leaves pro- 

 duced at the base into a small pungent conical straight spur. Cladodia 

 3-()-nate, rigid, setaceous, ascending, |— J in. long. Flowers herma- 

 phrodite, solitary; pedicels \ in. long, articulated below the middle. 

 Perianth \ in. long; segments oblong, ascending, white with a broad 

 green keel. Stamens as long as the perianth ; anthers oblong, minute, 

 bright-yellow. Ovary globose ; styles not reaching up to the anthers. 

 Mozamb. Dlst. British Central Africa : Ngamiland ; Nakalechwe, Lugard, 25 ! 



14. A. Judtiiy Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 44. A 

 divaricate undershrub. Branches spreading, woody, pungent at the 

 tip. Leaves produced at the base into straight subulate spines. 

 Cladodia S-G-nate, subulate, |-l in. long. Flowers 2-3-nate in the 

 axils of the leaves. 



laO'wer Guinea. German South-west Africa : Great Namaqualand ; Hoachanas, 

 Fleck, 901. 



No specimen in the Kew Herbarium. 



The locality is a little south of the Tropic, but there can be little doubt that the 

 plant also occurs within the Tropical limits. 



15. A. Schweinfarthiiy Baker in Joimi. Linn. Soc. xiv. GIG. A 

 tall much-branched erect shrub, glabrous in all its parts. Branches long, 

 straight ; branchlets many, ascending. Leaves produced at the base into 

 small pungent spines. Cladodia H-G in a fascicle, rigid, subulate, 

 ascending, 9-15 lin. long. Flowers in axillary pairs ; pedicels ascending, 

 :J-J in. long, articulated near the base. Perianth yV in. long; segments 

 not spreading. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth. 



wile Xiand. Galabat : on the banks of the River Geiidua. Schweinfurth, 29 ! 



IG. A. namaensis, Schinz in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 41. 

 An erect much-branched undershrub. Branches and branchlet« virgate. 



