Xyris. | XYRIDEZ (Brown). 5 
LAHARI Re@ron: Transvaal; a ume Berg; Burke, 128! Zeyher, 1727! 
haat Valley, near Barberton, Galpin ! 
Um ilo We siael ae 8139! Inanda, 
Wood, 155! and without ama locality, Buchanan 
This is very nearly allied to X. Bakeri, Nilss., yt be but diifers in 
its much narrower and more “distinctly awned meee chi 
4. X. Rehmanni (Nilss. in Svensk. Vet. Akad. Handl. xxiv. 
no. 14, 28); leaves 1-2 ft. long, 3-11 line broad, laterally flattened, 
linear, tapering to a fine a like point at the apex, straight or 
twisted, een with sheaths about 3 in. long, brown ; peduncular 
sheath 6-7 in. long, leafless, but with a short flat point 13-22 lin. 
glabrous ;- ae pire ng about 42 lin. in diam. ; ; bracts 2-3 lin. 
erat A entire, not ciliate, glabrous, dar el oes own. wit 
slightly paler apical area at the base of the mucro, 9-nerved; 
nerves not reticulate in the upper part; lateral sepals shortly jarhi 
beyond the braets, 3-31 lin. long, 2 line broad, lanceolate, pale 
straw-coloured with a brown keel, which is produced into a short 
mucro at the apex, and shortly ciliate-scabrid from near the base to 
about 3-8 line below the apex; corolla yellow, lobes broadly 
cuneate-obovate, denticulate; arms of the staminodia divided into 
tufts of long fine hairs; anthers oblong, 12 lin. lo 
KALAHARI REGION: Pinibeadl Houtbosch, Rehmann; 5764! 
X. Gerrardi (N. E. Brown); leaves not seen; peduncular 
mucronate; peduncle 9-16 in. long, 3 line thick, some m- 
pressed, especially in the upper part, int gee glabrous; spike 
ovoid or subglobose, 3-31 lin. long, a 2 lin. thick ; bracts 
23-28 lin. long, 1-12 lin. broad, ovate- Gules. or st niptic. -oblong, acute, 
carinate, and somewhat complicate at the apex, membranous an 
slightly lacerated at the margin, three-nerved, dark brown, glabrous ; 
lateral sepals 21-25 lin. long, 2 line broad, lanceolate (not falcate), 
acute or obtuse, keeled, dark brown, paler towards the margins ; 
keel narrowly wing-like in the lower }—2 only, and serrulate-scabrid 
or ciliate to half or three-fourths the way up, its apex very shortly, 
or not at all produced into a point; corolla yellow, only seen in 
bud, with broadly cuneate-obovate, denticulate lobes; arms of 
staminodia divided into tufts of fine hairs; anthers 2 line long, 
oblong ; capsule 1+ line long, about 1 line diam., obovoid, dorsally 
flattened, trigonous, apiculate 
Eastern Rea@ion : Zululand, issead 1526! 
This species is readily distinguished from all the other South African ones, by 
the slightly lacerate, 5-nerved ‘sla and from all but X. Rehmanni by the near’ ly 
§ : the ciliation is more 
and eae from the to the apex. Viewed rig the sepals are 
ess curved, as in baw species. The only specimens I have seen 
more 0 
are without: leaves 
