Xyris| XIII, XYRIDEA, 71 
bud orange-yellow, linear-oblong, exceeding the 2-armed hairy 
‘staminodes. The-rather stout root-fibres stain the paper on which 
they are mounted a pale crimson. 
The new leaves which are shooting out above the closely 
sheathing bases of last season reach 31 in. long including the 
sheath (3 in.) by barely 1} line broad. Peduncles to 5 in. long by 
a little over } line thick, spike 21 to 21 by 1 to 1} lines. Bracts 
13 to 2 by 2 to 1} lines ; sepals about 2 lines long by between 4 
and } line broad. Anthers 2 line long in bud. 
Comes perhaps nearest to 1. afinis but is distinguished by its 
smaller size, very rigid habit, crowded regularly distichous shoots, 
terete scape, and smaller spikes. 
Huvitia.—Short thicket-grown marshes between Humpata and the 
lofty plain of Empalanca. In fl. April 1860. No. 2471. 
9. X. huillensis Rendle sp. nov. 
Glabrous, cespitose, with a rush-like habit; leaves short, flat, 
narrow linear, acute, sheath broadening downwards, membranous, 
‘faintly tinged with red with a hyaline margin; peduncle filiform, 
subcompressed, reddish below, many times longer than the leaves, 
sheath apiculate, about as long as the leaves; spikes truncated, 
ellipsoid when young becoming hemispherical, few-flowered (about 
6), bracts entire, bright brown, ovate, bluntly carinate in the 
upper half, very blunt or with a shortly mucronate apex, becoming’ 
narrower and concave above, 3-nerved sometimes incompletely ; 
lateral sepals oblanceolate, blunt, brown, keel pale and trans- 
parent, narrow, extending for two-thirds from the base, glabrous ; 
corolla yellow, limbs obovate; stamens longer than the bright 
yellow densely pilose staminodes, anther subsagittate, ovary 
compressed ellipsoidal becoming obovoid as it ripens and shortly 
rostrate, style 3-partite to the middle; seeds on three parietal 
placentas, elliptical narrowing to a slight umbo at each end, 
crimson with dark longitudinal lines, glabrous. 
Leaves 3 to 23 in. by 4 to} line broad; peduncles 3 to 12 in. 
by + line or less , spikes when fully developed about 2 lines long 
and broad. Bracts 14 to 13 by 2 to 1 line; lateral sepals 1} to 1? 
by about 4 line broad when folded ; petals 14 by line. Stamens 
1 line, anthers a little longer than the filament. Ovary 1 line. 
Near YX. straminea Nilss. but a smaller plant with shorter 
narrower leaves and brown not straw-coloured spikes. 
Hvitta.—Flowers constantly yellow. Empalanca, in lofty sandy 
pastures bearing short herbage and flooded in the rainy season. Feb. 
and April 1860. No. 2469. Marshes near the river Quipumpunhine 
in the Humpata district between Nene and Humpata. In fl. and fr, 
end of May 1860. No. 2472. 
10, X. fugaciflora Rendle sp. nov. 
Glabrous, czespitose, leaves narrow-linear, acute, rugulose with 
scabridulous margin, especially the older ones; peduncles flat- 
tened very slender, sheaths with a short leaf-like appendage ; 
spikes 4- to 5-flowered, ellipsoidal with narrowing ends in flower, 
