508 NOTES ON XYRIS. 
lanceolate-oblong, bilobed for about two-fifths the length from the 
“Ph shortly bilobed at the base; staminode spreading at the 
x into a broad truncate disc, with ease! hairy margins, about 
151 mm. broad, much shorter than the stamens. 
Distinguished from the last by its less robust habit, subterete 
peduncle, and paler parti-coloured smaller heads 
ab. New Caledonia. Damp hollows on dry ferruginous 
mountains at a height of 150 m.; Pancher, no. 412. 
UBESCENS Rendle in Welw. Cat. il. a (1899). Dr. Rand 
has recently collected this species in. Rhodesia. His specimens 
comprise three peduncles to the base of one of which is attached a 
leaf. The ont are also in flower. As the type-specimens from 
Huilla have no leaves or open > dolar the following notes will 
papphiment the description in the Catalogue 
Leaf narrowly terete subpungent, passing into a narrow chestnut- 
brown glabrous sheath, 18 em. long including the sheath; blade 
petils Srbisnlar- obovate *5 em. long and as broad; anthers oblong, 
2 mm. long; the — filament 1 mm. long; styles filiform not 
dilated, 3 mm. lon 
Xx. Thom ahead sp.nov. (Pl. 4038, figs. 1-6.) Gracilis ae 
planis anguste linearibus flaccidis erectis quam pedunculu s ten 
elongatus compressus anguste marginatus duplo minoribus ; tisk 
depresso-globosis, late brunneis, eg (5-) floris ; birastets sterili- 
bus ellipsoideis scariosis cum parte centrali triangulari trinervio 
durato, apice retuso ; se fertlibas majoribus obovatis 5- 
nerviis cum margine scarioso super e latiore ; sepalis lateralibus 
: ge 
aminibus capsule 
oe atone sebdatbus sitiie sllipacidcis cum lineis longitudinalibus 
striatis 
The specimens bear no perfect leaves—-the largest reaches 
135 cm. by 2 mm. in breadth—they pass gradually below into 
narrow brown sheaths ; : or oe peduncles blunt, reaching 8 cm. 
in stiees | peduncles ¢ to 84 . lon ng 2a ‘+5 em. long by 
te) 2 
oer plicate state; capsule valves 3-3° 5 mm. long; flowers 
Near the Madagascar species X. humilis Kunth, which it re- 
sembles in the character of its spikes, but is a much taller plant, 
three to four times the height, and differing in its elongated linear 
leaves and smaller obviously keeled —_ 
Hab. Madagascar ; Thomps 
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