466 MISS L. 8. GIBBS ON THE 
SPHEROTHYLAX sp. 
Victoria Falls, river, thickly covering exmerged rocks. Fruit- 
ing capsules only, Sept. 322. 
Distrib. South African genus. 
[ Dr. Rendle succeeded in identifying the genus of this plant 
under circumstances of some difficulty, as the material was quite 
dead when collected, with only the fruiting capsules. It is 
evidently the first to flower, as the dried vegetative remains, 
about 10 em. high, densely covered all the exposed surface of 
the rocks with a seaweed-like growth, to be succeeded by the 
red floating branches and the flowers and fruit of Tristieha 
alternifolia, Tul., where the water had not yet gone down. Pro- 
fessor Farmer tells me this zonal distribution is characteristic of 
the family, and was always observed by him in Ceylon.—L. S. G.] 
PnRorEACEX. 
Protea AnYssiNICA, Willd. 
Matopo Hills, veld. Fl. and Fr. Sept., Oct. 59. 
Distrib. Abyssinia, Rhodesia, Betehuanaland. 
A handsome shrub, 3-6 m. high, evergreen, with light glaucous 
foliage, only the youngest leaves showing a silvery pubescence. 
Flower-heads large and white. This species is scattered in the 
Hills, but predominates on the “Sand veld” beyond Fort Usher, 
and I was told that this is the case wherever that particular for- 
mation occurs. Dr. Bolus(11. p. 11) in the South-eastern Region 
limits Protea chiefly to the Table Mountain Sandstone. 
Popularly known as *sugar-bush," this plant is general 
throughout Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury, Herb. Kew.). I am 
indebted to Mr. Dowsett, of the Rhodes Matopo Park, for this 
material, having lost my own specimen. 
Faure sALIGNA, Harvey. 
Matopo Hills, veld. Fl. Oct. 313. 
Distrib. Angola, Mozambique, Rhodesia. Also South-east 
Africa to Cape Colony (Knysna). 
THYMELEACES. 
LasrosiPHON Krauss, Meissn. 
Matopo Hills, veld, general. Fl. Oct. 229. 
Distrib. Angola, South Central Tropical Africa, and South 
Africa. 
