172 MB. H. BOLUS’S CONTRIBUTIONS 
brevissimus, stigmate majusculo subsessili ; ovarium ellipticum ; 
siliqua orbicularis, 1 cm. [in exempl. Thunbergiano 1:5 em.) dia- 
metro. (v. v. ; descr. ex exempll. plur. exsicc. sub num. 6502 dis- 
tributis.) 
Hab. In lapidosis, Kasteel Poort prope Klipfontein, in monti- 
bus Kaus, ditione Namaqualand Minor, alt. circ. 900 metr., 
mense Sept., anno 1883, legi. No. 6502 in herbb. meo, Kewensi, 
&c. 
Kasteel Poort is about 56 miles from Port Nolloth by the 
Copper Mining Company's tramway, and I found the plant 
growing copiously in a patch near the western entrance to the 
Poort, the season being an extraordinarily good one. 1 confess 
I took it for some Heliophila, little thinking it was the rare 
Palmstruckia, and hence only gathered about eight specimens. 
Namaqualand is a very dry and a not easily accessible country ; 
annuals such as this only spring up after suitable rains, and I 
have not been able as yet to get any one to gather it again. 
MALVACER. 
HiBISCUS MICRANTHUS, Linn.—This occurs amongst Burchell’s 
plants No. 2264, Litaakun, Sept. 1812; and 2364, Maadji Moun- 
tain, Oct. 1812. The South-African locality has not yet been 
published. 
STERCULIACER. 
MELHANIA GRIQUENSIS, Bolus, n. sp.  Decumbens, ramis 
adscendentibus, 35-40 centim.longis. Stipule filiformes. Folia 
oblongo-elliptica oblonga, vel (in exempll. Orpenianis) lineari- 
oblonga, basi cuneata, grosse serrata, 3-4 cm. longa, 1-1:5 cm. 
lata, cano-pubescentia demum subglabrescentia, petiolis 0°7-1°3 
em. longis; pedunculi axillares, sepius biflori, demum reflexi, 
7-8 millim. longi; pedicelli 2-4 mm. longi ; epicalycis segmenta 
lineari-subulata, sepalis breviora; sepala lanceolata acuminata, 
8 mm. longa, capsulam oblongam stellato-tomentosam squantia ; 
semina levia. (Ex exempll. exsicc. Burchellianis, No. 2050). 
Hab. Kloof Village, Asbestos Mountains (Griqualand West), 
Feb. 1812; Burchell! No. 2050 !; Griquatown, Mrs. Orpen; 
Herb. Bolus No. 6045. [Also, rocks at the Chue Spring, Oct. 7, 
1812, Burchell 2885; Bakwena Territory, Betchuana Country, 
Dr. Holub; and Klippan, Boshveld, Transvaal, Rehmann 5220 
in herb. Kew.—N. E. Brown.] 
This is nearest to M. Burchelli, DC., but differs in its leaves 
