460 MISS L. S. GIBBS ON THE 
culis, ut bractez bracteoleque puberulis et margine ciliatis ; 
corolle extra puberule tubo calycem leviter excedente, infra 
medium subito coarctato, limbi lobis late obovatis, obtusissimis, 
tubum longitudine semisquantibus; staminibus infra medium 
tubum insertis; ovario apicem versus pubescente; ovulis pro 
loculo 7 ; stylo ovario breviore; capsula cirea 12-sperma.—Distat 
ab affini Hemig. tenera, C. B. Clarke, foliis diversis, ealyce majore, 
corolle majoris lobis tubum semiaquantibus, staminibus tubo 
minus alte affixis, antheris minoribus. 
Hab. Victoria Falls. Sept. 161. 
Leaves 1:5-2:5 em. long, 6-8 mm. broad, the floral ones 
usually 6-8 mm. long; bract 5 mm., bracteoles 4 mm. long, the 
former 1 mm. the latter 4 mm. broad; lobes of calyx 5 mm. long ; 
corolla-tube slightly more than 5 mm. long, at the bottom 1 mm., 
a little further up 2 mm., at the throat 13 mm. wide; lobes 
scarcely 3 mm. long; anthers almost 1 mm. long; ovary nearly 
2 mm., style 14 mm. long; capsule glabrous, 5 mm. long; the 
subrotund seeds 1 mm. in diameter. 
One of the chief carpeting plants of the Rain Forest proper, 
occurring also on Livingstone Island and on exmerged rocks in 
the Zambesi River above the Falls. 
DYSCHORISTE Perrorreril, O. Kuntze. 
Victoria Falls, Rain Forest, carpeting. Fl. Sept. 296. 
Distrib. Upper Guinea and Nileland. Apparently the first 
record for South Central Africa. 
DisPERMA VISCIDISSIMUM, S. Moore, sp. nov. 
Suffrutex semimetralis, glanduloso-pubescens; caule ascen- 
dente, quadrangulari, cortice dilute brunneo obducto, superne 
ramulos breves foliosos patentes frequenter emittente; folis 
subsessilibus, ovato-oblongis, obtuse acutis, basin versus sensim 
angustatis, margine crenulato-denticulatis, membranaceis; floribus 
pro rata majusculis, ex axillis superioribus ramulorum oriundis ; 
bracteolis lineari-oblongis, obtusis, calyce brevioribus; calycis 
tubo cylindrieo iongitrorsum striato aliquanto decolori quam 
lobi lanceolati obtusiusculi multo longiore; corolle extra 
puberule tubo ealycem leviter excedente, cylindrico, fauces 
versus paullulum ampliato, limbo distincte bilabiato tubum 
semiszquante, lobis inter se subzqualibus (antico revera latiore) 
anguste oblongo-obovatis, obtusissimis emarginatisve, labio antico 
basi transverse rugoso intus decurvo-piloso; ovulis pro loculo 1; 
capsula brevi, calyce inclusa, polita, 2- vel abortu 1-sperma.— 
