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valde petiolatis, ovato-lanceolatis, utrinque acutis, crenulato-serratis, 
paucinerviis, glabriusculis ; floribus terminalibus, spicatis, spicis abbre- 
viatis, paucifloris, bracteatis ; calycis laciniis subzequalibus, lanceolatis, 
acutis, glabris ; corolla tubo calycem equante, fauce inflato, incurvo, 
limbo amplo, lobis zequalibus, rotundatis, integris; ovarii loculis 14- 
spermis. 
Hab. In insula Fernando Po, ad altitudinem 1300 ped., Mann! in herb. 
Hook. 
Suffrutex 2-3-pedalis, erectus. Folia 3-4 unc. longa, 1-2 unc. lata; 
petiolus 13 unc. longus, teres, subglaber. Corolla violacea, 2 unc. 
longa; limbus 2 unc. latus. 
7. R. PiLosA, Linn. Suppl. p. 290.—Fabria rigida, E. Meyer, in Cat. 
herb. Drég.—F. pilosa, N. ab E. in DC. l.c. p. 114, cum syn. 
Hab. In Africa australi, ad Macalisberg, Burke! in herb. Hook. 
8. R. ovata, Thunb. Fl. Capen. ed. Schult. p. 480.—Fabria cordifolia, 
N. ab E., DC. l.c. p. 104, cum syn. 
Hab. Ad Macalisberg, Burke! in herb. cit. 
9. R. ZEYHERI, T. Anders.—Dipteracanthus Zeyheri, Sond. in Lin- 
nea, xx. p. 90. 
Hab. Prope fluvium ** Buffalo-hunt ” dictum, in Africa australi, Zeyher ! 
in herb. Sond. 
10. R. Hurronu, T. Anders, Herbacea, erecta, pilis adpressis omnino 
strigosa ; foliis petiolatis, ovatis, obtusis, integris ; floribus axillaribus, 
sessilibus, solitariis vel geminis; corolla extus tomentosa, intus gla- 
bra, calyce dimidio longiore ; capsula calyce breviore, glabra. 
Hab. Ad “ Howeson's Point, in regione orientali Africz australis, 
Hutton! in herb. Coll. Trin. Dublin. 
Stephanophysum Baikiei, Bot. Mag. t. 5111, which was raised 
at Kew from plants said to have been sent from Western 
Africa, is Siphonacanthus repens, N. ab E. in Endl. et Mart. 
Fl. Bras. fasc. vii. p. 47 (Stephanophysum repens, mihi)—a 
species confined to Brazil. Some mistake must have occurred 
in recording the source from whence the plant at Kew was 
procured. It was probably sent from South America by 
Herbst, from whom a ease was received at about the same 
time as one from Dr. Baikie, of the Niger Expedition. 
X. PETALIDIUM, N. ab E. 
. P. LINIFOLIUM, T. Anders. Erectum, glabrum, ramis lignosis; foliis 
sessilibus, linearibus, acutis, uninerviis, glabris; pedicellis axillaribus, 
solitariis, unifloris ; bracteis 2, concavo-ovatis, mucronatis, infra me- 
dium connatis, membranaceis, albis, nervis viridibus pulcherrime reti- 
culatis; calycis laciniis lineari-lanceolatis, inzequalibus, extus glandu- 
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