Dipcadi.] cxl. LiLiACEiE (baker). 523^ 



complicate, J in. longer than the inner. Anthers subsessile at the 

 throat of the perianth-tube. 



Iiower Guinea. German South-west Africa : Amboland ; between Olukonila 

 and Unkuambi, Schinz, 36 ! 411 ! 



2;]. D. va^natum. Baker. Stem slender, flexuose, 1 ft. or more 

 long, with a single flat linear glabrous leaf 6-8 in. long, J-J in. broad, 

 with a long sheath arising from the stem above the base. Raceme 

 very lax, 4-5 in. long; lower pedicels J-| in. long; bracts small, linear. 

 Perianth green; tube oblong-cylindrical, \^ in. long; inner segments 

 ovate-oblong, nearly as long as the tube ; outer caudate, spreading, 

 I in. long. Stamens half as long as the inner segments ; anther larger 

 than the filament. Capsule sessile, f in. diam. 



ItXozaml). I>lst. British Central Africa : Ngamiland ; Kwebe, Lugard, 47 I 



24. D. thoUonianum, Hiua, Contr. FL Congo Franr^. Lil. 23. 

 Bulb not seen. Leaf linear, moderately firm, glabrous, a foot long^ 

 I in. broad. Peduncle with raceme nearly 3 ft. long. Raceme lax, 

 1 ft. long, 10-flowered; bracts ovate-caudate, scariose, the lower ^ in. 

 long; pedicels erect, as long as the bract, articulated at the apex. 

 Perianth nearly an inch long; outer segments reddish-black, with a 

 papillose tail J in. long; inner paler, \ in. long; both 5-nerved. Fila- 

 ments very short. Ovary oblong ; ovules about 20 in a cell ; style 

 included. 



Iiower Guinea. Lower Congo : prairies by the River Jue, near Brazzaville, 

 Thollon, 4076 ! 



No specimen at Kew. 



25. D. viride, Moench, Method. Suppl. 2G7. Bulb ovoid, 1 in. 

 diam.; outer tunics pale. Leaves 2 or more, erect, linear, glabrous, 

 sometimes 1 ft. long. Peduncle slender, fragile, 1 ft. or more long. 

 Raceme very lax ; lower pedicels \ in long ; bracts small, linear. 

 Perianth green ; tube oblong, \ in. long ; inner segments as long as the 

 tube; outer filiform very slender, |-1 in. long. Filaments very short: 

 anthers oblong. Capsule sessile, J in. diam. — Baker in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xi. 401, and in Fl. Cap. vi. 441). Hyacinthus viridis^ Linn. Sp. 

 Plant, ed. ii. 454 ; Jacq. Ic. t. Q)Q. 



IVile Ziand. Somaliland, Miss JEdith Cole ! 



Also collected in the mountains south of the Equator by Bishop Hannington. 



Also in South Africa. 



19. PSEUDOGALTONIA, Kuntze in Jahrb. Konigl. Bot. Gart. 

 Berl. iv. (1886), 274. 



Perianth-tube funnel-shaped, curved; segments 6, oblong, eub- 

 equal, ascending. Stamens 6, inserted at the throat of the perianth - 

 tube, shorter than the segments ; filaments flattened ; anthei-s line^ir- 

 oblong, dorsi-fixed, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sessile, oblong, 



