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ANTHOSPERMUM VALLICOLUM, 5, Moore, sp. nov. 
Fruticulus ramosus ramulis patenti-ascendentibus crebro foliosis subtere- 
tibus minutissime puberulis, foliis vertieillatis linearibus apice mucronulatis 
ima basi inter se neenon cum stipulis vaginatim connatis margine revolutis 
subtus mieroscopice puberulis, stipulis parvulis integris subulatis, floribus 
masculis ignotis, floribus femineis in axillis ramulorum perbrevium axillarium 
parvifoliatorum fasciculatis, calycis lobis 4 deltoideis acutis vel acuminatis, 
corolla ignota, coecis plano-convexis glabris. 
Hab. Chimanimani Mts. at 7000 ft., forming thickets in ће glens ; in fl. 
Sept. ; n. 2155. 
Folia adulta usque ad 4 em. long., 1-3 mm. lat. (ramulorum fertilium 
1 em. long.), membranacea, in sicco grisea, Stipule + 1 mm. long. 
Fructuum calycis lobi persistentes + 1 mm. long. Cocci exsiccati segre 
2 mm. long. 
Recognized by the long and narrow leaves, with the very short fertile 
branches crowded with small leaves in their axils. The affinity appears to be 
with A. pachyrrhizum, Hiern. 
RICHARDSONIA BRASILIENSIS, Mayne, Arzn. Gew. viii. t. 21. 
Near Chirinda, 3700 ft. ; in fl. & fr. Nov. ; n. 2134. 
Distrib. Zambesia to Natal. Also in Tropical America. 
BonnERIA NATALENSIS, А. Schum. MS. 
Spermacoce natalensis, Hochst. in Flora, xxvii. (1844) 555. 
Near Chirinda ; in fl. May ; nos. 376, 518. 
Distrib. Natal to Mozambique. 
RUBIA CORDIFOLIA, Linn, Syst. 229. 
Near Chirinda, 3800 ft. ; in fl. April; n. 216. 
Distrib. Tropical and South Africa, East Asia and Malaya. 
GALIUM STENOPHYLLUM, Baker, in Kew Bull. 1895, 69. 
Near Chipete Forest Patch, 3800 ft. ; in fl. & fr. July ; n. 2141. 
Distrib. Uganda to Nyasaland. 
DIPSACEJE, 
ScABIOSA CotumBarta, Linn. Sp. РЇ. 99. 
Near Chirinda and Mt. Pene; in fl. April, Sept. ; nos. 278, 1143. 
Distrib. Throughout Africa ; also in Europe and the Orient. 
СОМРОВТТ 2. 
The following weeds are in the collection :—Ethulia conyzoides, Linn. 
fil., Vernonia cinerea, Less., Mikania scandens, Willd., Ageratum conyzoides, 
Linn., Adenostemma viscosum, Forst, Conyza œgyptiaca, Ait., Erigeron 
