Africa, Southern -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Africa, Southern
Order ERICACEÆ.
* ERICA, near COCCINEA, Berg.
Order OLEACEÆ.
JASMINUM, sp.
Order APOCYNACEÆ.
CARISSA, near TOMENTOSA, A. Rich.
Order CONVOLVULACEÆ.
EVOLVULUS ALSINOIDES, Linn., var.
Order BORAGINACEÆ.
TRICHODESMA PHYSALOIDES, A. D. C.
Order SOLANACEÆ.
SOLANUM SUBEXARMATUM, Dunal?
Order GENTIANACEÆ.
CHIRONIA, sp.
Order SCROPHULARIACEÆ.
LYPERIA BURKEANA, Benth.
* LIMOSELLA TENUIFOLIA, Nutt.
* DICLIS REPTANS, Benth.
Order ACANTHACEÆ.
* HYPOESTES FORSKAHLII, R. Br.?
* HYPOESTES VERTICILLARIS, R. Br.?
Order SELAGINACEÆ.
* HEBENSTREITIA, near DENTATA, Thunb.
Order VERBENACEÆ.
LIPPIA ASPERIFOLIA, Rich.
LANTANA or LIPPIA, sp.
Order LABIATÆ.
* LEONOTIS LEONURUS, R. Br.
OCYMUM, or ORTHOSIPHON, sp.
Order AMARANTHACEÆ.
ACHYRANTHES ASPERA, L.?
Order EUPHORBIACEÆ.
EUPHORBIA, sp.
Order ORCHIDACEÆ.
LISSOCHILUS, 2 sp.
Order IRIDACEÆ.
GLADIOLUS BREVIFOLIUS, Jacq.
GLADIOLUS, near QUARTINIANUS, A. Rich.
Order AMARYLLIDACEÆ.
HÆMANTHUS, near MULTIFLORUS, Martyn.
Order HYPOXIDACEÆ.
HYPOXIS VILLOSA, L.
Order LILIACEÆ.
ANTHERICUM (TRACHYANDRA) OATESII, Baker in Trimen’s _Journal of
Botany_, 1878, p. 324. (Plate J.)
Rootstock not seen complete; outer tunics produced as a membrane round
its neck. Produced leaves 5–6, contemporary with the flowers, terete
above the sheathing base, ½ foot long, ½ line in diameter, clothed
with fine soft deflexed 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, ½ a foot long, 1–1¼ inch in diameter;
bracts minute, deltoid; pedicels erecto-patent, the lower ones ½–¾ inch
long. Perianth white, fugacious; segments ¼ 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.
Near the Abyssinian _A. Saltii_, and Cape _A. pubescens_.
ALOE, sp.
ASPARAGUS, sp.
* ANDROCYMBIUM MELANTHIOIDES, Willd.
[Illustration:
App.Pl.J.
W. H. Fitch del. Mintern Bros. imp.
ANTHERICUM OATESII.]
[Illustration:
App.Pl.K.
W. H. Fitch del. Mintern Bros. imp.
ADIANTUM OATESII.]
Order GRAMINEÆ.
* PANICUM (TRICHOLÆNA) ROSEUM (Nees.)
* ANDROPOGON, sp.
* ANDROPOGON (CYMBOPOGON) HIRTUS, L.
Order FILICES.
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