564 CXL. LiLiACE^ (baker). [Gloriosa. 



forming a lax terminal corymb; pedicels long, cernuous at the tip- 

 Perianth IJ-^J in. long, strongly reflexing; segments lanceolate' 

 cuspidate, scarcely at all crisped, J- J in. broad at the middle, variable 

 in colour, bright red or yellow, or in the original virescens, yellow tinged 

 outside with green. Filaments about half as long as the perianth; 

 anthers linear, J in. long. Style 1-1 J in. long, branched in the upper 

 third. Capsule 2-2^ in. long. — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 458, 

 and in Fl. Cap. vi. 526. Methonica virescens, Kunth, Enum. iv. 

 277; Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4938. J/, virescens, var. Plantii, Fl. des 

 Serres, t. 865. M. peter siana, Klotzsch in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 

 t. 54. M.platyphyllaj Klotzsch, loc. cit. t. 55. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Scott-Elliot, 3838 ! Morson ! Lagos, Milletiy 

 7 ! 217 ! Lower Niger ; Abo, Barter, 164 ! Cameroons : Yaunde, Zenker ^ Staudt, 

 599 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 1005 ! and Efulen, Bates, 416 ! 



Wile Ziand, Kordofan, Bfund, 139 ! 865 ! British East Africa : Jur ; Jur 

 Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1957! Torn District; Wimi Valley, Scott-Mliof, 7876! 

 Uganda ; in grass-land near water, Wilson, 108 ! Ukamba ; Kitui, Hildebrandt, 

 2649 ! Nyika country near Mombasa, Wakefield, 25 ! Mombasa Island, Wakefield ! 

 Wauga, Smith ! 



Iiower Guinea. Lower Congo : Stanley Pool, Buttner, and Leopoldville, 

 Dyhoivski. Angola, Welwitsch^ 1745 ! 1746 ! Malange, Marqiies, 24 ! German 

 South- West Africa: Amboland; Amieb, Belck, 32, and at Otavi, near Water 

 Berg, Dove (ex Schinz) ; Hereroland ; near Olukonda, Schinz, 903, Bautanen, 101, 

 and Omupanda, Wulfhorst, 17 (ex Schinz). 



Soutb Central. Congo Free State : Upper Congo, at Katanga, Briart. 



Mozamb. 3>ist. Zanzibar : in a clove plantation, Sjpeke 8^ Grant ! German 

 East Africa : Karagwe, 3000-4000 ft., Speke Sf Grant, 484 ! Kilimanjaro, 2000- 

 3000 ft., Johnston ! Usambara ; Amboni, Hoist, 2154 ! Lake Tanganyika, Cameron ! 

 Eovuma Bay, Kirk ! Portuguese East Africa : Mozambique, Forbes ! Peters ; 

 Lower Zambesi ; opposite Sena, Kirk ! Shimwara Hill, at the mouth of the River 

 Shire, Kirk I British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, Scott-Elliot, 

 8626 ! Plains of Zomba, 2500-3000 ft., Whyte ! Rhodesia ; Leshumo Valley, south 

 of the River Zambesi, Soluh ! Ngamiland ; Botletle Valley, Lngard, 213 ! 



Also in Natal and Madagascar. 



Var. grandiflora. Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 458. Flowers larger ; perianth- 

 segments 3-4 in. long, 8-9 lin. broad at the middle. — 3Iethonica grandiflora, Hook. 

 in Bot. Mag. t. 5216 ; 111. Hort. viii. t. 273. M. Leopoldi, Lemaire in Fl. des Serres. 

 t. 163-4 (flowers yellow). 



Upper Guinea. Niger Delta : Grand Bassa, Vogel, 22 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 

 72! 



lOTile Xaanda British East Africa : in marshy ground at Abu Kuka, on the 

 Bahr-el-Jebel, Petherick ! 



G. simplex, lAnn. Mant. 62, and G. coerulea, Mill. Gard. Diet. edit. viii. No. 2, are 

 doubtful names, which probably both belong to this species. 



3. G, minor, Rendle iri Journ. Bot. 189G, 132. Stem erect, 

 slender, flexuose, 6-8 in. long, bearing about 20 leaves just above its 

 middle, all except the lowest verticillate. Leaves sessile, linear, falcate, 

 not cirrhose at the apex, the longest 2J-3 in. long, under | in. broad. 

 Flowers solitary, crimson; pedicels 2 in. long, erect, cernuous at the 

 iipex. Perianth-segments strongly reflexed, lanceolate, acute, Ih in. 



