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and also united above to the statninal tube, are fleshy, flat and 

 erect, consisting of a larger rounded central lobe and two smaller 

 lateral dorsal teeth, which are sometimes continued, and meet 

 across the back of the scale, forming a ridge. The gynostegium 

 projects about f line above the scales ; the staminal filaments are 

 connate into a short tube, and the connective is produced above 

 the stigma in a short rounded incurving hyaline appendage. The 

 flat stigma is 5-crenate, with a central depression. The solitary 

 pollinia are large, £ line long, pendulous, pyriform-oblong in shape, 

 and compressed; the caudicle is short, narrow, and delicate, 

 without an appendage. 



Xysmalobium fritillarioides Rendle, sp. n. Herba sesqui- 

 pedahs, radice lignosa perennis, canle gracili; foliis oppositis, longe 

 Imeanbus acutis, herbaceo-viridibus ; pedunculis axillaribus quam 

 folia permulto brevioribus; floribus 4-5 umbellatis, viridi-flaves- 

 centibus, maximis ; sepalis triangulo-subulatis, glabris, dorso sparse 

 scabridulis; corolla rotato-campanulata, lobis obovatis obtusis, 

 margme subito et anguste reflexis, apice recurvato ; corona? squamis 

 tubo stammeo affixis, erectis, crassiuscnlis, planis, late ovalibus, 

 superne subito angustatis, apice vix cucullatis et gynostegium 

 superantibus, exappendiculatis ; antheris membrana hyalina ro- 

 tundata terminatis ; stigmate peltato pentangulari. 



Hab. In dumetis (ut videtur 

 Humpata. Oct. 1859. Chloroste, 

 No. 4179. Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Described from an excellent sketch and a single dried flower in 

 the British Museum, together with a, few notes by Welwitsch. The 

 stem described by Welwitsch as "gracilis" is fairly thick ami 

 robust-looking, being 2 lines in diameter for 1 ft. from the base ; 

 the long linear leaves are flexuous, very ascending, and reach 6 in. 

 in length; the peduncles are i-J in. long; the pedicels about f in. • 

 the larger flowers, borne in umbels of 4 or 5, are 1£ in. across 

 when expanded, and described in Welwitsch's note as " Fritillariam 

 fere simulantibus " ; the corolla-tube is 1£ line long- the lobes 

 4 in- long, and \ in. at their greatest width; the corona-scales are 

 distinct, scarcely fleshy, with a broadly oval almost flat basal 

 portion 2 lines long, suddenly passing into a narrow portion over 

 topping the gynostegium 1 line long, and just hooded at the 

 • ' expanded into a thin mem- 



1 lobe 1 line long. The broadly oblong pollen- 

 i long, while the arms cover an expanse of \ line. 



