434 MISS L. S. GIBBS ON THE 
colour and interesting in structure, their vascular system being 
enclosed in abundant water-storage tissue, which accounts for 
the prominence and whiteness of the veins. In transverse 
section, the structure of the leaf resembles that of some grasses, 
the palisade-tissue of the lamina terminating abruptly on each 
side of the midrib. Large mucilage-canals occur in the stem, 
leaves, and the ovary-wall. 
Only one specimen of this plant was seen. 
MALPIGHIACEA. 
SPHEDAMNOCARPUS GALPHIMLEFOLIUS, Szyszyl. Polypet. Rehm. 
(1882) p. 2. 
Matopo Hills, Silozi. Fl. Oct. 281. 
Distrib. Transvaal. 
Apparently not recorded for Rhodesia. 
GERANIACER. 
Monsonra BunkEANA, Planch. 
Matopo Hills, veld. Fl. Oct. 222. 
Distrib. Transvaal, Rhodesia. 
HurACEE. 
THAMNOSMA AFRICANUM, Engl., var. RHODEStCUM, Baker f. in 
Journ. Bot. xxxvii. (1899) p. 426. 
Matopo Hills, veld, very common. Fr. Sept., Oct. 310. 
OCHNACES. 
Ocuna ANTUNESII, Engl. & Gilg, in Baum, Kunene-Zambest 
Exp. p. 304. 
Victoria Falls, veld. Fl. Sept. 305. 
Distrib. Kunene District. 
Small tree, 6 m. high, flowering with leaves, bearing pendent 
racemes of bright yellow flowers at every node on the branches. 
Ocuna SCHWEINFURTHIANA, F. Hoffm. Beit. zur Kennt. Fl. 
Cent.-Ost-Afr. p. 20, ex descript. 
Matopo Hills, veld and kopjes. Fl. and Fr. Oct. 218. 
Distrib. Central East Africa. 
Small tree with roundish crown, flowers on old wood with 
young leaves ; corolla yellow. First record for Rhodesia. 
