118 THE BOTANY OF THE ANGLO-GERMAN 
cotyledons, and one Gymnosperm (Podocarpus milanjiana). Of 
the Dicotyledons 199 belong to the Polypetale, 183 to the 
Gamopetale, and 51 to the Apetalz, as recognised in Bentham 
& Hooker’s ‘Genera Plantarum’ The Monocotyledons include 
30 Orchids, and also members of other petaloid orders; no 
sedges nor grasses were collected. 
Taken as a whole, the plants show considera! le affinity with 
the Floras of the West African Coast-region, especially Angola ; 
about 20 per cent. comprising species hitherto known only from 
those regions, or new species with a strong West African affinity. 
Recent investigation has revealed the same state of things as far 
eastward as Usambara*. Noteworthy examples of this among 
the Polypetale are a new variety of Capparis Afzelit, a species 
hitherto known only from Sierra Leone and the Cameroons; a 
form of Polygala Gomesiana, an Angolan plant; Hugonia 
platysepala (Upper and Lower Guinea); and Zanthorylon nitens, 
Clausena anisata var. multijuga, and Illigera pentaphylla, all 
three Angolan. Among the Gamopetale the following eight 
species are worthy of mention as having hitherto been known 
only from Upper Guinea :—Craterispermum brachynematum, 
Clitandra cymulosa, Alafia grandis, A. Schumannii, A. landolph- 
ioides, Baissea tenuiloba, Acanthopale decempedalis, Barleria 
opaca. To the same category belong Peddiea lungiflora (Togo- 
land), Claoxylon africanum and Habenaria Soyauaxii (Gaboon), a 
new Polystachya (P. inconspicua) near the Fernando Po species 
P. alpina, and a new species of Haemanthus (H. Radcliffer) 
nearly allied to H. Lindeni from the Congo. The Angolan 
affinity is exemplified by several orchids—Hulophia dichroma, 
Habenaria foliosa, Disa ochrostachya, and a new species of 
Mystacidium (M. ugandense). 
Excluding widely distributed tropical species, the majority of 
the plants represent an Eastern tropical African element, including 
a number of Abyssinian types, a few species hitherto known only 
from Mt. Kilimanjaro on the East (such as Tragia Volkensii), and 
several from Mt. Ruwenzori on the West, such as the Composites 
Crassocephalum ruwenzoriense and Senecio ruwenzoriensis, and 
Liparis ruwenzoriensis, Pteroglossaspis ruwenzoriensis, Poly- 
stachya nigrescens, and Disa erubescens, four orchids previously 
collected by Mr. Scott Elliot. A more southern element is 
* Engler, in Notizbl. k. Bot. Gart. Berlin, iii. 83. 
