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12. CHLOROPHYTUM Ker; Benth. t Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. 

 p. 788. 



Das>/stachys Baker ; Benth. & Hook, f., I.e., p. 789. 



Sect. 1. EUCHLOROPHYTUM. 



1. C. Afzelii Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 323 (1876) ; 

 Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. p. 349. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — No. 3776. By streams in rather shady places, 

 Queta, Zengas. April. Coll. Cahi'. 1045. 



2. C. hispidulum Rendle, sp. nov. 



An acaulescent herb, perennial by means of a tuberovis rhizome 

 bearing long subfleshy or string-like spreading fibrous roots ; 

 leaves 2 or more, radical, rigid, leathery, spreading, with a broad 

 sheathing base and a long rather broad linear concave petiole, pass- 

 ing very gradually into a narrowly oval acute blade ; both faces of 

 blade conspicuously many-nerved, upper face glabrous, nerves of 

 under side and the back of the petiole densely minutely hispidulous ; 

 scapes simple or once branched, springing from among, and much 

 shorter than the leaves, stoutish, and similarly hispidulous, 

 with a submembranous acuminate basal bract, and a few short 

 ovate triangular bracts above, the axis and branch each ending 

 in a short dense oblong subcompound head of shortly stalked 

 subglobose bluntly triquetrous fruits ; capsules loculicidally 

 dehisced, valves rough and hispidulous outside, polished and 

 faintly horizontally striate on the inside, edges thick and recurving; 

 seeds a dull polished black, with rounded backs and deeply grooved 

 ventral surfaces. 



Leaves 9 to 14 in. long, including 2 to 4 in, of petiole, petiole 

 2 to 3 lines broad, blade li to 1^ in. broad; scape 1^ to 2^ in. 

 long, inflorescence (in fruiting stage) about 1 in. by 7 to 8 lines 

 thick. Capsules scarcely i in. long ; seeds scarcely 1 line. I have 

 seen no flowers, but the plants look so distinct that I have ven- 

 tured to describe them as a new species of the Canna'folia section 

 characterised by its tough long-stalked narrow leaves, short simple 

 or forked scape, and short dense hispidulous indumentum. 



PuNGo AxDONGO. — Gravelly soil in wooded places between Candumba 

 and Mangue. With opened fr. March 1857. No. 2805. 



3. C. macropliylluni Aschers. in Schweinf . Beitr. Fl. Aeth. p. 294 

 (1867) (nomen) ; Baker in Trans. Linn. Soc , ser. 2. i. p. 259 

 (1878); Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 351. 



C. leiicolepis Welw. ex Baker, I.e. 



PuxGO AxDOXGo. — A herb, perennial with a fascicled fibrous root 

 and very broad linear radical leaves, 3 to 4 ft. long, fleshy-coriaceous, 

 herbaceous-green, channelled and very obtusely carinate. Scapes 

 centi'al, H to 3 feet or higher, cylindric, bracts linear- lanceolate, 

 semiamplexicaul at the base, whitish-green. Flowers very sweet. 

 Perianth spreading, leaves equal, lanceolate, subobtuse, a fine white. 

 Filaments filiform, subcompressed. Anthers bright yellow, long, 

 narrowly lanceolate, sul3sagittate,dorsifixed. Ovary obovate-triquetrous, 

 angles obtuse, furrowed ; style declinate ascending, stigma with a 

 small finely fibrillar head. The very long bracts are coherent at the 



