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NOYITATES AFRICANAE 
Antholyza Muirii, L. Bolus ( Irideae-Ixiea ) A. Watsonius affinis sed 
cormi tunicis rigidioribus crassioribusque, folio producto ad 25 cm. 
longo, periantkii segmentis inferioribus lateralibus brevibus differt. 
Erecta, omnino glabra, ad 55 cm. alta ; cormus globosus, apicem 
versus in collum attenuatus, brunneus, 2 — 2-4 cm. longus, 1 — 1-7 cm. 
diam., tunicis in segmenta permulta imbricata lineari-lanceolata acuta 
fissis; folia saepissime 5, inferiora 2 ad vaginas reducta, tertium pro- 
ductum, vagina ad 16 cm. longa, lamina angustissime lineari, medio 
nervo marginibusque incrassatis, sulcis vix visis, ad 25 cm. longa, 
0-15 cm. lata, superiora reducta, laminis 2-5 — 5 cm. longis; spica laxa 
secunda, 7 — 12 cm. longa, 2 — 4-fb, floribus patentibus vel rarius 
erecto-patentibus, rubentibus; spathae valvae lineares obtusae, tenue 
multi-nervosae, in siccis olivaceae, exteriores 3 — 5-4 cm. longae, 
interiores 2 — 3-4 cm. longae; perianthii tubus curvatus vel fere strictus, 
ad 3-2 cm. longus, basi 0-15, apice ad 0-6 cm. diam., segmentis acumi- 
natis, saepissime apiculatis, summo inter lateralia porrecto, more 
A. Cunonia, obovato-spathulato, 1-9 — 2-2 cm. longo, lateralibus 
superioribus ellipticis, 1-7 — 1-9 cm. longis, lateralibus inferioribus 
obovatis, 1 — 1-3 cm. longis, infimo anguste elliptico, 1-4 — 1-5 cm. longo; 
stamina dimidium segmenti summi excedentia, antheris 0-8 — 1 cm. 
longis; stylus demura segmento summo fere aequilongus. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Riversdale Div., hills 
behind Albertinia, fl. May, John Muir, 1348. Exhibited at the Caledon 
Wild Flower Show, Sept. 1915 (Bolus Herbarium, No. 14953). 
Allied to Antholyza Watsonius, L. Bolus, but differs in having the 
tunics of the conn split up into rigid thick segments, the produced 
leaf much longer, the uppermost perianth-segment porrect between 
the lateral segments, and the lower lateral segments much shorter 
than the rest. 
Antholyza Guthriei, L. Bolus, A. quadrangulari proxime accedit, sed 
foliis productis 4, brevioribus, marginibus haud conspicue incrassatis, 
distinguitur. 
Erecta, omnino glabra, ad 55 cm. alta; cormus subglobosus, 1-3 cm. 
diam., tunicis demum in segmenta capillacea fissis; folia basalia 5, 
infimum ad vaginam reductum, producta 4, laminis linearibus acumi- 
natis 3-nervatis, nervis marginibusque fere aequaliter prominentibus, 
ad 19 cm. longa vel ultra, ad 0-3 cm. lata, caulina 2, ad 5 cm. longa; 
spica laxa secunda, ad 20 cm. longa, 1 — 7-fh, floribus patentibus; 
spathae valvae lineares vel oblongae, acuminatae vel subobtusae, 
exteriores, in siccis, olivaceae vel rubentes, 2-5 — 4-5 cm., interiores 
3-5 cm. longae; perianthii tubus leviter curvatus, parte inferiore 
ad 1-8 cm., superiore ad 2 cm. longa, segmentis inaequalibus obtusis, 
