BOTANY OF SOUTHERN RHODESIA. 461 
Planta eum Dispermate dentata, C. B. Clarke, componenda, cujus 
indumentum dispar, calyx multo longius lobatus, &c. 
-Hab. Vietoria Falls. Sept. 123. 
Leaves usually 1-3 em. long (rarely reaching 5 em.) and 6 mm. 
to 14 (seldom 21) em. broad, membranaceous, often grey-green 
when dry; bracteoles 7 mm. long; calyx 1:2 em. long, with 
lobes only about 3 mm.; tube of corolla 1:2 em. long, near the 
base 2 mm., further up 4 mm. in diameter; the lips 1 em. long; 
lobes 83 mm. long, 4-44 mm. broad (the intermediate lobe 
of the lower lip 5 mm.); stamens shortly exserted ; anthers 
oblong, obtuse at base, 24 mm. long ; ovary oblong-ovoid, 13 mm. 
long; style puberulous, 1'2 em. long; capsule obovoid, acute at 
the tip, 7 mm. long; seeds covered with appressed grey hygro- 
scopic hairs, 3 mm. in diameter. 
A strongly aromatic plant, growing in sand on veld. The 
young leaves and inflorescence are densely covered with 
glandular hairs. 
PHAYLOPSIS LONGIFOLIA, T. Thoms. 
Victoria Falls, Rain Forest, abundant. Fl. Sept. 160. 
Distrib. Cameroons, Abyssinia, British and German East 
Africa, Natal, Cape Colony. 
This plant occurs all through the Rain Forest, especially 
towards the back, and runs up to over a metre in height. 
ASYSTASIA COROMANDELIANA, Nees. 
Victoria Falls, banks of river and islands among reeds. Fl. 
Sept. 119. 
Distrib. Common weed in Old World. 
JUSTICIA ELEGANTULA, S. Moore, in Journ. Bot. xxxviii. (1900) 
p. 204. 
Matopo Hills, veld. Fl. Sept., Oct. 32. 
Distrib. Widely spread in Southern Rhodesia. 
[A very interesting little herbaceous plant. It forms winter 
resting buds of fleshy white radical leaves on the rhizome below 
the surface; the cauline leaves succeeding these are small and 
linear, bearing rosy-pink flowers in their axils, From the base 
of these shoots, long surface runners are sent out, with large 
ovate leaves about 3 em. long, and flowering shoots rise in the 
axils of these leaves. These secondary shoots apparently root at 
the nodes, when the fleshy radical leaves are laid down, forming 
water-storage tissue for next season’s growth. It was the 
