NOVITATES AFRICAN AE 
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purpureo; stigmata demum exserta ; capsula cylindracea, ad 3 cm. Jonga, 
0- 6 cm. diam., rarissime producta; bulbillae oblique globosae rostratae, 
ad 2-4 cm. longae, basi l - 5 cm. diam., in fasciculis (ad 28 in fasciculo) 
in axillis foliorum superum caulinorum bractearumque, fere ad apicem 
axis floriferi, dispositae. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Paarl Div., Joostenberg 
(National Botanic Gardens, No. - 7 T ° ¥ 7 -). 
Allied to W . Meriana, Mill., but differs in having a taller and more 
robust stem, broader leaves, laxer inflorescence, and especially by the 
upper sheathing leaves and bracts being bulbilliferous. 
Described from many living specimens which have flowered freely 
in the National Botanic Gardens for several years. The habit of pro- 
ducing cormlets is rare in the genus, occurring only in two or three 
species, and in none are the cormlets so numerous as in this. The few 
capsules that form (usually with one or more cormlets in the same axil) 
contain very few (1 or 2) seeds which are perfect. 
W. tabularis, Mathews and L. Bolus, W. bulbilliferae aflinis, sed bulbillis 
abeuntibus, foliis longioribus vaginis multo brevioribus, floribus majori- 
bus, perianthii segmentis interioribus longioribus quam exterioribus 
differt. 
Erecta, fere ad 2 met. alta; folia radicalia 4 — 5, ad 1-1 met. longa, 
4-8 cm. lata, vix equitantia, vagina brevissima, ad 12 cm. longa, nervis, 
praeter medium prominentem, praecipue inconspicuis, marginibus haud 
incrassatis subpellucidis, caulina 2 — 3, infimo imnio basi caulis oriente, 
18 cm. longo, vagina 13 cm. longa, ceteris spathiformibus, 22 cm. longis; 
spathae 2 — 3, 21 — 8 cm. longae; spica subdisticha, floribus convergen- 
tibus, 2 — 3-ramosa, parte terminali circa 24-fl., ad 71 cm. longo, axi 
florifero 48 cm. longo, ramis gracilibus, 8 — 14-fl., ad 57 cm. longis; 
bracteae ovato-oblongae, 1-8 — 1 cm. longae, bracteolis paullo longi- 
oribus, ad apicem fere coalitis; flores patentes, mox nutantes, perianthii 
tubo corallino, 4-3 cm. longo, apice 1 cm. diam., segmentis exterioribus 
subpatentibus oblongis obtusis, basi parum angustatis, extus corallinis, 
intus salmoneis, ad 3-1 cm. longis, 1-6 cm. latis, interioribus obovatis, 
3-5 cm. longis, 2-3 cm. latis, salmoneis, postico porrecto subconcavo; 
stamina arcuata, filamentis 4-6 cm. longis, antheris atrocyaneis, 1-4 cm. 
longis, polline albido; stylus stamina paullo excedens, ramis 0-8 cm. 
longis, stigmatibus gracillimis, 0-4 cm. longis; capsula cylindracea, basin 
versus angustata, ad 3-5 cm. longa, apice 0‘8 cm. diam., seminibus 
1 — 1-3 cm. longis, alis 0-4 — 0-6 cm. longis. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Cape Div., Table Mountain, 
upper slopes and lower plateau frequent, less frequent nearer the 
summit, fl. Dec. — Feb.; lower eastern slopes at Kirsten bosch, in 
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