BOTANY OF SOUTHERN RHODESIA. 450 
the ovary is + 3 mm. long and the style and stigma + 6 mm. 
long. 
An evergreen tree, 7-10 m. high, with a much-branched 
spreading crown, growing in deep holes and wide fissures of the 
granite. Leaves and inflorescence very viscid. 
GENTIANE E. 
Canscora Kırg, N. E. Br. 
Victoria Falls, bog edge of Rain Forest and Livingstone 
Island. Fl. and Fr. Sept. 152. 
Type locality, collected by Sir John Kirk on Livingstone 
Island in 1860, and apparently not since. 
A small annual with pink flowers, which were always closed. 
They very possibly open in the evening. It was only seen in 
bright sunshine. 
BonnaGINEX. 
CorDIA sp. 
Matopo Hills, kopjes. Fl. and very young leaf, Oct. 199. 
A small tree, with white flowers, which are borne on lateral 
branches on the young wood in small terminal eymes of three or 
four. The species is probably a new one, but the leaves are too 
immature to describe it. 
EHRETIA HoTTENTOTICA, Burch. 
Matopo Hills, old Kaffir lands. Fl. and Fr. Oct. 279. 
Distrib. Rhodesia (Rand), South Africa. 
TRICHODESMA PHYSALOIDES, Fenzl. 
Matopo Hills, veld, general. Fl. Sept., Fr. Oct. 74. 
Distrib. Nileland, Mozambique District, Nyassaland, Angola, 
Transvaal, Betchuanaland. 
Herbaceous perennial, which sends up a tuft of flowering 
shoots, about 7 dm. high, from the persistent root-stock, in the 
beginning of spring; these are succeeded by the vegetative 
shoots, about 1 m. high, which develop during the rainy season. 
It is a very handsome plant with large white flowers and glaucous 
green foliage, gregarious. 
CoNvoLvULACEX. (Dr. Rendle.) 
MARREMIA ANGUSTIFOLIA, Hailier f. 
Matopo Hills, veld. Fl. Oct. 228. 
Distrib. Tropical and South Africa 
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