BOTANY. 411 



of the plant I cannot venture to describe it, though I believe 

 it to be a new species. 



63. Anthericum (Trachyandra) Oatesii, Baker in Trim. Journ. 



of Bot., 1878, p. 324; id. in Oates's Matabele Land, ed. 1, App. 

 p. 368, pi. J (1881). (Plate XIII.) 



The original description of this plant by Mr. Baker in ' Trimen's 

 Journal of Botany ' was reproduced in the first edition of the present 

 work, where it was figured for the first time, and may be again re- 

 peated here : — 



" Rootstock not seen complete ; outer tunics produced as a mem- 

 brane round its neck. Produced leaves 5-6, contemporary with 

 the flowers, terete above the sheathing base, \ foot long, \ line in 

 diameter, clothed with fine soft defiexed white hairs as long as the 

 diameter of the leaf. Scape as long as the leaves, pilose in the lower 

 part, glabrous upwards. Raceme lax, simple, \ foot long, i-ij inch 

 in diameter ; bracts minute, deltoid ; pedicels erecto -patent, the 

 lower ones |-| inch long. Perianth white, fugacious ; segments \ 

 inch long, lanceolate, with a distinct 1 -nerved or obscurely 3-nerved 

 brown keel. Stamens falling a little short of the perianth-segments ; 

 filaments muricate ; anthers oblong, very minute. Style declinate, 

 just overtopping the anthers. 



" Matabele Land. 



" Near the Abyssinian A. Saltii and Cape A. ftubescens." 



This species has since been collected by the Rev. W. Elliott in 

 the same locality. 



64. ANDROCYMBIUM SUBULATUM, Baker in Trim. Journ. of Bot., 



1874, p. 245. 



Crocodile River. 



Mr. Oates's specimens are identical with others collected by Mr. 

 T. Baines on a wooded sand-belt, south of the Umzweswe River, 

 " South African Gold-field," (north of the Transvaal), on which the 

 above species was founded. Rehmann, n. 3787, from Bloemfontein, 

 Orange Free State, and a specimen found under the Drakenberg, sent 

 by Keit, are also identical. It differs from A. melanthioides, Willd., 

 to which it was referred in the former edition, by its narrowly linear, 

 elongated leaves, and very short stem, though Mr. Baker now thinks 

 it may perhaps represent only an extreme form of that species. 



Order GRAMINE^. 



65. Panicum (Trichol^ena) Teneriff^e, R. ¥>x.—Trichola>na rosea, 



Nees. — Panicum roseum, Stend. ; Oliv. in Oates's Matabele 

 Land, 1st. ed., App. p. 369 (1881). 



Between Pietermaritzburg and the Crocodile River. 

 The above is the amended synonymy of this species. 



