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angustata, quam pars coalita brevis cupuliformis ter longiora, 
totus calyx ad 2 em. longus, sub lente valido minutissime pilosus. 
Corolla ealyeis lobos non excedens, breviter cupularis, leviter v. 
vix curvata, obscure labiata ; lobi vix inter se diversi, rotundati, 
margine rotundati, ciliati, illi labii inferioris paulum breviores, 
omnes conniventes v. vix patuli, corolla 2 em. longa, superne 
lem. diam. Stamina corollam fere duplo superantia ; filamenta 
tenuissima, pilosa; ad insertionem filamentorum et staminodii 
minuti linearis, 4. e. in fundo corolie paulum supra basin 5 
pulvinaribus pilorum artieulatorum satis erassorum instructa; 
filamenta 2 em. longa, 1 em. supra fundum corollæ inserta. 
Discus magnus, obscure 5-lobus. Ovarium cum stylo brevissi- 
mum, discum vix excedens. Stigma parvum. Capsula et semina 
non adsunt.—A prili. 
British North Borueo, near Marisinsing (Dr. Fraser, n. 268 !). 
The plant differs from sch. Motleyi, C. B. Clarke, in the size 
and the shape of the leaves, in its shorter calyx-lobes, and in 
the size and shape of the pistil; in other respects both species 
are much alike. So far as we can judge from the specimen at 
hand, there must be still a macrostyle form with shorter stamens 
to be detected. 
On Characee from the Cape Peninsula olleeted py Major A. H. 
Wolley-Dod, R.A. By Messrs. H. & J. Groves, F.L.S. 
[Read 21st December, 1905.] 
(Prate 11.) 
Tuis small collection of eight numbers, representing seven 
species, was made by Major Dod in 1895-7 on Table Mountain 
and the adjacent hills, and the records are published in the 
‘List of Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Cape Peninsula,’ 
compiled by him in conjunction with Mr. Harry Bolus. Among 
them are two of our common European species, C. vulgaris and 
C. fragilis, the rest being apparently endemic to Africa and 
one being a new species. Major Dod informs us that in the 
districts he visited these plants were very scarce. 
