Littonia.] cxl. liliace^ (baker). 507 



4. L. Revoili, Franch. Sert. Somal. Gd. Stem erect, i-1 ft. long. 

 Leaves dense, linear, or narrowly lanceolate, sometimes uncinate at tlie 

 tip, shortly hispid on both surfaces. Flowers from the axils of the 

 upper leaves, on long suberect pedicels. Perianth yellow; segments 

 narrowly oblong, with a linear nectary on the claw. Stamens rather 

 shorter than the perianth. Ovary oblong, shortly stipitate ; style 

 tripartite to the middle. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 151). 



irile Iiand. Somaliland : valley of Barroz, in the country of the Medjourtine*. 

 Sevoil. 



No specimen at Kew. 



Imperfectly-knoion species. 



5. L. Baudii, Terrac. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1802, 425. Stem 

 erect, slightly pilose at the base. Leaves crowded, ensiform, ciliolate. 

 Perianth large, rose-red ; segments obovate-oblong, reflexed, connate 

 at the base. Stamens scarcely as long as the perianth. St\'le only tri- 

 partite at the apex. 



zrile Ikand. Somaliland : fields of Gerar Amaden, Baudi di t'estne. 

 May be a Gloriosa, as the perianth-segments are said to reflex, but I have not 

 seen any specimen. 



35. WALLERIA, Kirk; Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant, iii. 831. 



Perianth adnate to the base of the ovary; segments free above the 

 adnata base, spreading, equal, oblong-lanceolate, laxly many-nerved. 

 Stamens 6, inserted at the base of the segments of the perianth ; 

 filaments very short ; anthers large, linear, persistently connivent in a 

 cone, dehiscing by apical pores. Ovary globose, 3-celled ; ovules many, 

 superposed; style subulate; stigma small, capitate. Mature capsule 

 and s6eds unknown. — Rootstock tuberous. Stems erect, with many 

 spaced out leaves. Flowers usually single, on pedicels from the axils of 

 many of the leaves. 



One species extends to the Transvaal. 



Probably the best place for this is in Hamodoracea besides Ci/aiielia and 

 Conanthera. 



Flowers erect . . . . . . . . 1. 7/". MackenzU. 



Flowers cernnous 2. W. nutau*. 



1. W. Mackenzii, Kirk in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 497, t. 52, 

 fig. 2. Rootstock an irregular fleshy tuber. Stems erect, 1-U ft. long. 

 Leaves 20-30, sessile, ascending, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, 

 2-4 in. long, moderately firm, glabrous. Flowers produced, usually 

 singly, from the axils of many of the leaves on ascending, often hract^o- 

 late pedicels 1-1 J in. long. Perianth blue, J-J in. long; segments 

 J in. broad. Stamens rather shorter than the perianth ; anthers J in. 

 long. — Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 41)1). ir. angolensis, Bilker in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. i. 262 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 

 159. 



