438 CXL. LiLiACE^ (baker). [Broccena, 



ensiform. Panicle ample, tripinnate ; branches stiff, stout, pubescent, 

 spreading horizontally ; pedicels clustered, pubescent, jV in. long, articu- 

 lated at the middle ; bracts minute, ovate. Perianth J in. long ; tube 

 very short. Stamens shorter than the perianth ; filaments flattened. — 

 Hildeb. in Monatsschr. Yer. Gartenb. K. preuss. Staaten, 1878, 19C. 



Wll© Zaand. British Somaliland : Mountains, near Maid, 2500-5500 ft., Hilde- 

 hrandt, 1472 ! 



Native name Moli. 



I have not seen the leaves of Hildebrandt's plant, but those of one gathered in the 

 Golis range in 1895, by Mrs. E. Lort- Phillips, are not distinguishable from those of 

 J). Ombet. This and the two next are nearly allied to the Canarian D. Draco, and 

 Socotran J). Cinnabari, Balf. f. 



2. D. Ombet, Kotschy d; Peyr. PI. Tinn. 47, with figure. Trunk 

 7-8 ft. long, tyficQ forked ; branchlets short, thick, spreading. Leaves 

 densely rosulate, ensiform from a dilated base, lJ-2 ft. long, under 

 1 in. broad low down, narrowed gradually to the tip, very thick and 

 rigid, smooth on the margin, rounded on the back in the lower half, 

 keeled upwards, triquetrous towards the apex. Panicle shortly peduncled, 

 very compound, above 1 ft. long ; branchlets glabrous ; pedicels many 

 in a cluster, \-\ in. long, articulated at the middle ; bracts ovate- 

 lanceolate, minute. Perianth \ in. long; tube nearly obsolete. 

 Stamens shorter than the perianth. — Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 

 App. ii. 7G ; Baker in Hook. Ic. t. 2530. 



Iflle Jband. Nubia : on Mount Erkowit, near Suakin, 5000 ft., Schweinfurth> 

 250! Anguab Mountains, west of Suakin, 2500-4000 it., Hevglin ! Eritrea: Mount 

 Adhamed, near Gcleb, 6800 ft., Schweinfurih, 1187, 1413. Mount Alanikale, near 

 Aidereso, 5800 ft., Schweinfurih, 1464, 1821. 



3. D. Hanningtoni, Baker. Nearly allied to J). Ombet. Branch- 

 lets of the panicle glabrous ; pedicels densely clustered X2~i ^^' ^^^S- 

 Perianth cylindrical, J in. long; tube half as long as the segments. 

 Stamens as long as the perianth. Style distinctly exserted. 



Mozamb. Sist. German East Africa : Unyamwezi ; Msalala, Hannington ! 



4. D. Mannii, Baker in Joum. Bot. 1874, 164. Trunk woody, 30 ft. 

 long. Leaves crowded, ascending, ensiform, sessile, firm in texture, 

 1-lJ ft. long, |-1 in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to \ in. 

 above the base ; midrib not visible in the upper third. Panicle nearly 

 sessile, bipinnate, IJ ft. long; branches long, ascending; racemes 

 moderately dense, the end one J ft. long ; pedicels short, articulated at 

 the apex, the lower 3-6 in a cluster ; bracts minute, ovate. Perianth 

 greenish, J in. long ; segments twice as long as the tube. Stamens as 

 long as the perianth-segments. Style finally exserted. — Baker in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 520. 



Upper Guinea. Old Calabar River, Mann, 2329 ! Thomson, 8 ! 



Imperfect specimens of an allied plant are described by Hua in Contr. Fl. Cong. 

 Fran^. Lil. 7, from Osika, in the Bateke country, French Congo, collected by De 

 Brazza (No. 185) in 1883. It differs from D. Mannii by its longer pedicels. 



5. D, Perrottetii, Baket^ in Journ. Bot. 1874, 165. Trunk woody, 

 12 ft. long; branchlets slender, glabrous. Leaves ensiform, sessile, 



