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spicuo, 22-5 — 60 cm. longa, 1-8 — 4 cm. lata, folium caulinum unicum 
35 cm. longum, lamina 15 cm. longa; spathae 3, ad 25 cm. longae, inter- 
nodio inter spatham primam et secundam circa 30 cm., inter secundam 
et tertiam circa 17-5 cm., longo; inflorescentia ramosa, ramo laterali 22-fl., 
ad 52 cm. longo ; bracteae ovato-oblongae acutae, dimidio superiore mem- 
branaceo, 1-5 — 1 cm. longae, bracteolis aequilongis vel parum brevioribus, 
per duas tertias partes longitudinis coalitis; flores basi tantum erecti, 
deinde paten tes, salmoneo-corallini, 7-5 — 8-1 cm. longi, tubo gradatim 
ampliato, ad 5-4 cm. longo, medio 0-6 cm., faucibus ad 0-9 cm., diam., 
segmentis exterioribus oblongo-linearibus, interioribus obovato-oblongis; 
stamina arcuata, fere ad apicem segmentorum attingentia, filamentis 
pallide roseis, antheris purpureis, 0-9 cm. longis; stylus segmenta parum 
excedens, ramis 0-9 cm. longis, ramulis 0-3 cm. longis. 
Cape Province: South-Western Region; Humansdorp Div., Witte Els 
Bosch, H. G. Fourcade (National Botanic Gardens, No. ^f 1 ). 
Described from living specimens which flowered at Kirstenbosch, 
November and December 1923. 
Tritonia coccinea, L. Bolus. Caulis cum inflorescentia 56 cm. altus; folia radi- 
calia 6, fere erecta, lineari-ensiformia. longe acuminata, saturate viridia, 
praeter nervum medium prominentem inconspicue nervata, 32 — 40 cm. 
longa, 1*3 — 2-5 cm. lata, caulina 4, superiora brunnea membranaceaque, 
32 — 18 cm. longa; inflorescentia ramosa, ramis 3, axi terminali circa 
14-fl., floribus equilateraliter dispositis, 17 cm. longo, spathis foliis cau- 
hnis similhmis; bracteae omnino membranaceae, 1-7 — 0-7 cm. longae, 
bracteolis brevioribus, per duas tertias partes longitudinis coalitis; peri- 
anthium coccineum, 2-5 cm. longum, tubo 1 cm. longo, faucibus 0-5 cm. 
diam., segmentis subconniventibus suboblongis obtusissimis, 0-5 cm. latis, 
supremo ovato-oblongo, ad 0-7 cm. lato, inferioribus basi inconspicue 
luteo-notatis ; filamenta palhda, vix tubum excedentia vel etiam parum 
breviora, antheris 0-5 cm. longis; ovarium 0-2 cm. longum, stylo 1-3 cm., 
ramis fere ad 0-4 cm., longis. 
Cape Province: South-Eastern Region; Pondoland, Port St John, 
MacNair (National Botanic Gardens, No. f§). 
Described from a living specimen which flowered at Kirstenbosch in 
December 1923. 
Babiana Vanzijliae, L. Bolus (Iridaceae-Ixieae). Saepius 12 — 15 cm. alta; 
folia 6 — 7, linearia vel ensiformia, acuta, breviter velutinoque pilosa, 
nervis primariis 3 — 5, lamina 6 — 9 cm. longa, 0-6 — 1-5 cm. lata; spica 
basi ramosa, ramis 2, pedunculo e foliis vix exserto, dense 6 — 8-fl. vel 
ramis 3 — 5-fl., floribus fere erectis; bracteae (spathae valvae exteriores) 
herbaceae, tantum apice vero membranaceae brunneae, fere truncatae 
emarginatae, molliter pilosae, 4 — 2-5 cm. longae vel infima ad 6 cm. longa; 
bracteolae fere ad apicem membrana tenui coalitae, setaceo-acuminatae, 
