68 XIII. XYRIDE^. [Xj/7-is 



Leaves 7 to 10 in. long including the sheath (li to 2i in.), 

 scarcely 1 to If lines hroad ; peduncles reaching 30 in. ; sheath 3 

 to 6 in. Spikes 4 to 6 lines each way ; lower biacts about 3 lines 

 long by 1§ to 2 lines broad; lateral sepals 3j lines; unripe fr. 

 .scarcely 1^ line. 



Near A'. Rehmanni Nilss. (Transvaal), but distinguished by its 

 more .strongly mucronate sepals with keels ciliate to the base of 

 the mucro ; it is also a stronger more rigid plant. 



HuiLLA. — Plentiful in spongy places near streams round Lopollo, 

 growing with species of Aroichs and Gladiolus. In fl. and fr. Dec. 

 1859. No. 2474- 



3. X. Welwitschii Rendle .sp. nov. 



Leaves very narrowly ensiform or linear above the plicate 

 bases and sheath, acute, submembranous, margin and sometimes 

 faces scabrid ; peduncles slender, wiry, 2 to 3 times the length 

 of the leaves, with scabrid longitudinal ridges and a leaf-like 

 sheath ^ to g its length ; spikes pale brown, ellipsoidal when 

 young, hemispherical when mature ; bracts coriaceous becoming 

 somewhat scarious near the broad entire margins, 3-nerved, the 

 lowest bi'oadly ovate, becoming oval to obovate above ; lateral 

 sepals slightly protruding, spathulately oblanceolate, blunt, keel 

 minutely hispidulous from the middle to near the apex, pale 

 straw-coloured, odd sepal crimson ; corolla yellow ; anthers large, 

 linear-oblong, exceeding the shortly tufted pilose staminodes ; 

 capsule obovately elliptical, seeds dull black, ellipsoidal with 

 minutely umbonate ends and well-marked longitudinal ridges 

 united by inconspicuous transverse ladder-like markings. 



Leaves 3 to 6 in. long, 1 line or a little less in breadth ; 

 peduncles to 14 in. long, ^ to ^ line thick; spikes about 4 lines 

 long by 2^ to 4^ in diameter. Bracts 2 to 3 lines long by 1^^ to 

 2^ broad ; sepals a little over 3 lines long. If to If line broad 

 when folded ; anthers scarcely 1 line long. Capsule 2i lines long. 



Near A'', straminea Nilss., but distinguished by its larger 

 spikes and flowers, and sculptured dull black seeds. 



HuiLLA. — Wooded marshy meadows between Lopollo and Monino. 

 Beginning of April 1860. Xo 2465- 



4. X. capensis Thunb. Prodr. PI. Capens. p. 12 (1794); Nilss., 

 I.e. ; Durand & Schinz, I.e., p. 420. 



HuiLLA. — Habit exactly like some capitate species of Juneux. 

 Leaves flat, narrowly linear, green, culms strict, deeply furrowed, twice 

 as long. Flowers rather small, yellow. Boggy places near the banks 

 of the river of MumpuUa. In fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 2473. 



5. X. reptans Rendle sp. nov. 



Cse.spitose, spreading by a slender rhizome clothed with root- 

 fibres and fibrous remains of leaf-sheaths ; leaves linear, tapering 

 to a blunt apex and narrowing below to the long, green, 

 pale, scarious-mai-gined sheath, glabrous but like the slender 

 flattened peduncle striolate, peduncle a little longer than the 

 leaves, enclosed for a quarter of its length in a flattened sheath 



