THE TRIUMFETTAS OF AFRICA. 241 
meter 30 em. from the apex). Leaves palmatifid, setulose ; lobes 3—5, oblong, 
crenate. Inflorescences solitary at the nodes; peduncle 5-6 mm. long, 
bearing three 2-flowered or 1-flowered сутез subtended by a common in- 
voluere. Sepals very markedly cucullate, 4*5 mm. long. Petals narrowly 
oblanceolate, 3:5 mm. long. Gonophore about 0:3 mm. long; glands sub- 
quadrate. Stamens 12, hardly 3 mm. long. Ovary 1 mm. diam., 3-celled ; 
bristles terminated by a single spinule. Fruit 1:5 em. diam. including the 
bristles, 3-celled, about 5-seeded, stellate-tomentellous ; bristles plumose 
above, glabrous below.—The flowers were apparently overlooked by Masters, 
though present on the type specimen, The dichotomous appearance of the 
branching mentioned by Masters is due to the unusually vigorous growth of 
some of the axillary branches, which may become nearly as long as the main 
axes from which they arise. 
German East Africa: 30 miles above the mouth of the Rovuma River, 
Kirk! 
See Pl. 17. fig. 2, fruit and bristle. 
Subsect. DIGITATÆ, nob. 
6. T. digitata, nob., comb. nov. 
Ceratosepalum digitatum, Oliver, in Hook, Ic. Pl. t. 2307 (1894). 
Ап erect undershrub. Stem apparently branched from the base, about 
70 em. high, the youngest part about 2 mm. in diameter. Leaves deeply 
5-7-partite or -foliolate, tomentellous below ; segments or leaflets oblanceo- 
late. Sepals 12-14 mm. long, horn 4-5 mm. long, inserted 0:75-1 mm. below 
the apex. Petals 9-10 mm. long. Disc densely villous-ciliate. Stamens 
38-39 in the two flowers examined. Ovary 5-6-celled. 
North Nyasaland : Fwambo, Carson, 1! 
The original figure and description of Ceratosepalum digitatum are in- 
accurate in several partieulars : the ovules are in reality not ascending but 
pendulous, and the petals are not glabrous but have, on the contrary, a very 
dense villous band shortly above the base. The hairs on each petal are 
interwoven with those on the dise, and with those of the adjacent petals, so 
that on removal of the sepals an apparently continuous ring of hairs is seen, 
to which the petals appear to be attached shortly above their base. The 
petal shown in Ie. Pl. t. 2307 has been cut off above the band of hairs. 
The сутез are figured as arising in the axils of the bracts, whereas they 
are borne opposite to them, the branching being sympodial as in the other 
species of Triumfetta. The lowermost bract may be carried up almost to the 
level of the next cyme above, in which case the latter appears to be axillary 
on superficial examination. The inflorescence differs from that of 7. тасто- 
coma in having the uppermost leaves reduced to bracts and in being more 
contracted. 
