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subtus auroo-scrlcois facile JistiniiueiKla." But the bractoolcs arc linear and 

 catlncous, \vliicli is xcvy nnliko.tlio.se two spcci^^^:, and the general aspect o£ 



tlie type specimen is very JifTerent. It is apparently an elegant species, with 

 thin, flexible t^yig.s. 



55. B. HcNiiiQUEt^iANA, Taul). in Engl Jahrb. xxiii. 17G (1897). 

 Angola. Huilla. Antunes 177, A. 10! Ohihinde; sandy i)laces, 1270 m. 



No. 60 (KiUKuie-Zanibesi ExpcuL p. 253K Kassuango Kuiriri. Gosi^ 



weile 



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4048! 



liiver Ciianhaj Kubango. 



Gosweiler 2113 ! 



5(). B. 0130VATA, tSchinz in Bulb Herb. Boiss. iv. 815 (1896). 



KuNKNE District. Anibo Land. Wuhliurst 22. Raalenen 321 ! 604 ! 



Rhodesia, Victoria Falls, ^'^connnon shrub on high vtddt.^'* Allen 14i ! 

 Rogers 5580! Malindi, ^'common shrub.'' Alien 158! On the Wankic 

 line, 80 miles north of Buhnvayo. Eyles 1128 ! 



This and the next species are very closely related. They may be recognised 



at once by the whitish look of the leaves, which is more conspicuous than in 



HenriQuesiana. and is caused bv a minute nubescence. and also by the very 

 conspicuous primary 



nerves. In both, the 



small linear bracteoles are 

 deciduous, and are inserted on the pedicel below the calyx. The leaves otten 

 fall off, leaving a more or less naked panicle, as is the case with some other 

 species of Bapliia, 



57* B. coKlVIFOlia, Harms in Baum, Kunene-Zambesi Exped, 252(1903). 



KuNENE DisTKiCT. lliver Obitanda, 1100 m. Baum 121! 



Harms describes liis plant as '^ a shrub up to two metres, with white 

 flowers with a scent like thoi^e of RoUnia Psendacacia.'^^ It is perhaps 

 doubtful whorJier this species is really distinct from ohovata^ from which it 

 only seems to differ in the much shorter indumentum of the inflorescence 

 and the scantier, adprcssed hairs of the ovary. Eautenen^s No. 321 is more 

 or less intermediate between them. 



58. B. Bequaeuth, De Wild, in Fedde, Rep. xiii. 116 (1914), 



South Congo. Elizabethville (Katiniga district). Beqnaert 340, 

 Nokth-AVest Rhodesia. Bwana Mkubwa. "Universal, up to five or 



SIX metres: a much-branched slirub in open dry forest." R, E. Fries 334, 



337. Ropers 10086! 10378 I (1500 to 1600 metres). 



Gossweiler 2105 ! Between Broken Hill zinc mine and Bwana McCuba 



Kului-Kubango 



copper mine 



Allen 378 ! 



There is no specimen of Bequnert's No, 340 at Kew or in the Brit, l^fus., 

 but Fries (Schwed. Rhodes.-Kongo Exped. 73 (1913)), who was evidently 

 familiar with the species, determined Rogers's 10086 and 10378 and 

 Gossw^eiler's 2105 a^ belonging to this species. 



