502 cxL. LiLiACE.« (baker). [GMoi'ophytu'ni, 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Faliiba, 3500 ft., Scott-Elliot, 5306 1 near 

 Makuude, Scott-Elliot, 5703 ! 



STile Ziand. Galabat, Schweinfurth, 9 ! British East Africa : Taita ; Ndi 

 Mountain, Scott-Elliot, 6278 ! 



IMCozamI). Dist. German East* Africa : Karagwe, 4000-5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 

 8205 ! British East Africa : Nyasaland ; Elephant Marsh, North Nyasa, Scott !' 

 Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 135 ! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Wkyte ! Mount 

 Mlanje, Wliyte ! Mount Zomba, Whyte Sf McClotinie ! Fort Johnston, Scott- Elliot,. 

 8107! 



25. C. vaginatum, Ilua, Conir. Fl. Congo Franc^. Lil. 22. Crown 

 of root densely setose. Produced leaves 3, clasping the base of the 

 stem, rigid, closely ribbed, ciliated on the margin, the lower small, the 

 others oblong-lanceolate, G-10 in. long. Peduncle short, terete, hidden by 

 the sheathing bases of the leaves. Kacemes dense, 2-3 in. long, simple 

 or forked ; bracts 9vate ; pedicels very short, fascicled, articulated at the 

 middle. Perianth-segments yellow, lanceolate, J in. long. Stamens 

 shorter than the perianth ; anthers linear. Style short. Capsule 

 winged, i in. long. Ovules 10-15 in a cell. 



Wortb Central. French Congo : at the Mission Post on the Keuio River, a. 

 tributary of the Mobangi or Dua River, DyhoxvsTci, 744 ! 



No specimen at Kew. 



V:.^. C. pusiUuxKi) Schweinf. ex Baker in Journ. Bot. 1878, 325. 

 Rootstock an oblong tuber, bearing many slender fibres. Leaves about 

 4 to a tuft, oblong, spreading, membranous, glabrous, 4-5 in. long by 

 half as broad, sessile, crisped at the margin. Raceme dense, simple^ 

 \-l in. long, sessile in the centre of the rosette of leaves ; pedicels short, 

 clustered, articulated ; bracts lanceolate, membranous, the lower \ in. 

 long. Perianth \ in. long ; segments lanceolate, white with a greenish- 

 brown keel. Stamens nearly as long as the perianth ; anthers linear, 

 shorter than the filaments. Capsule globose, \ in. diam. 



Nile Zoand. Jur : Jur Ghattas, Schtveinfurth, 2043 ! 



27. C. brachystachyum, Baker in Garcl. Chron. 1893, xiii. 710, 

 Root-fibres cylindrical, fleshy. Leaves 6-8 to a stem, moderately firm^ 

 lanceolate, light green, glabrous, {)-8 in. long, 1-1 J in. broad at the 

 middle, narrowed gradually to the apex and sessile base, much crisped 

 and conspicuously ciliated on the margin. Peduncle very short. 

 Raceme dense, oblong, branched at the base ; pedicels very short, the 

 lower geminate ; lower bracts lanceolate, ciliated. Perianth white, \ in. 

 long ; segments oblong, reflexing from a basal cup. Stamens as long 

 as the perianth ; anthers oblong. 



Mozamb. I>l8t. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands,. 

 Buchanan ! 



Described from a plant that flowered at Kew in the autumn of 1893. 



28. C, stenopetaluxn. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 331. 

 Rootstock small, globose ; root-fibres slender, not bearing tubers. Leaves 

 about G to a stem, thin, glabrous, lanceolate, 8-12 in. long, 1-lJ in.. 



