Xyris| XIII, XYRIDEA, 73: 
faintly keeled in the upper part; lateral sepals transparent, 
tinged with pale reddish-brown along the dorsal line, sides very 
unequal, narrowly keeled for 2 from base, keel glabrous, obovate 
when opened, very blunt ; corolla yellow, petals oblong (?) ; anthers 
oblong with cordate base, staminodes 2-armed breaking up into 
a dense yellow hairy tangle rather more than half the length of 
the stamen ; style 3-partite to the middle; fruit plano-convex,. 
narrowly obovoid, very shortly beaked ; seeds ellipsoid with an 
apical umbo, red, longitudinally marked with strong spiral ridges. 
Leaves reaching 3 in. long by nearly 1 line broad, scapes 5 to 
8} in., sheaths 13 to nearly 2 in., acute. Spikes 2 by 14 to 23 
lines. Bracts 2 lines long or rather less ; lateral sepals 12 to 13. 
lines, by scarcely + line broad. Petals 13 line long or more 
(the top was always torn) by scarcely 1 line broad; anthers 
scarcely # line by 2 line broad slightly exceeding the short 
filament. Fruit scarcely 13 line long. 
Very near X. scabridula Rendle, but distinguished by the 
slightly shorter glabrous keeled delicate lateral sepals and the 
spirally ridged seeds ; the bracts are also more membranous. 
Punco ANDonGo.—Culms of a shining copper or almost gold colour 
from above the base to the middle, twisting on drying. Spongy places. 
near huge rocks at Barrancos de Catete growing with species of 
Ascolepis right on the presidium. In fl. and fr. May 1857. No. 2463. 
Note.—These spongy places are produced chiefly through an Alga 
with the help of but very few mosses. 
13. X. erubescens Rendle sp. nov. 
Bulbous, outer scales coriaceous to scarious, long-acuminate 
from a broad base, dull shining brown; scapes springing from the 
midst of the persistent bases of last season’s leaves, green, subrigid, 
flexuose, subquadrangular, glabrous, sheath rather loose above 
and passing into a weak point; spike ellipsoidal to subglobose ; 
bracts a dirty yellowish-brown with pale entire margin, coria- 
ceous, lowermost oblong, then orbicular and very concave, shortly 
apiculate or apex often broken and retuse, 7-9-nerved; lateral sepals 
narrow, falcate, sides very unequal, keel very strong, greenish- 
brown below, becoming crimson above, minutely hispidulous from 
about the middle to the apex; anthers (in bud) oblong and 
orange-coloured, staminodes 2-armed forming a long narrow tuft. 
of hairs exceeding the anthers. 
Plants about 8 in. high, with a small fleshy bulb about 4 in. in 
diameter, leafless, peduncles 54 to 8 in. long, sheaths about 2 in. 
Bracts 2 to 3 lines long by 14 to 23 broad. Lateral sepals 2} 
to 23 lines by 4 line or barely } line when folded, the narrower 
side less than half the width of the broader ; stamens (in bud) 
1 line, anthers 4 line ; ovules numerous on 3 parietal placentas. 
Recalls X. pauciflora Willd. in external appearance of spike, 
but differs widely in sepal characters. 
HuiLia.—Here and there in marshy pastures with short herbage 
near Nene by the road towards Lopollo. In fr. Oct. 1859. No. 2466. 
