BOTANY OF SOUTHERN RHODESIA. 469 
A small tree, with straight trunk and spreading crown. The 
young foliage is glabrous, and delicate green in colour; the g 
yellow-green, occurring in little racemes from the nodes of the 
old wood, towards the ends of the branches. In the 9 (which I 
did not see) the flowers are single, in the axils of the leaves, on 
the young wood. I am indebted to Dr. Stapf for the identifica- 
tion of this plant, which is an interesting record. Pax’s new 
genus was only deseribed in the above paper, and the two species 
on which it is based have been collected, one in East Tropical 
Africa, and the other, Pseudolachnostylis maprouneefolia, Pax, in 
German East and Portuguese South-west Africa. My specimen 
is probably a new species, as it does not quite agree with 
P. maprouneefolia, Pax, ex descript., but with only g and very 
young leaves it is impossible to decide the question definitely. 
PHYLLANTHUS RETICULATUS, Poir. 
Victoria Falls, Rain Forest, islands and banks of river. Fl. 
and Fr. Sept. 129. 
Distrib. Wide in Tropical Africa and Asia. 
PHYLLANTHUS NIRURI, Linn. 
Matopo Hills, Kafir lauds, general. Fl. Oct. 314. 
Distrib, Widely distributed in the Tropics, also in South 
Africa. 
CROTON GRATISSIMUS, Burch. 
Matopo Hills, kopjes. Oct. 209. 
Distrib. Amboland and in South Africa. 
Shrub, 2-3 m. high, aromatic. This plant shows drought con- 
dition during the dry season. The leaves fold up and the young 
racemes with small buds, which are evidently developed during 
the rains, look quite dead. Before I left at the end of October, 
I saw several bushes quite revived and in flower. 
Croton (§ Eucroton) BAROTSENSIS, sp. nov. 
Arbor, ramulis juvenilibus tomentoso-stellatis ; foliis ovatis, 
basi obtusis, apice acutis, in:qualiter serratis, penninerviis, 
petiolatis, petiolo lamina 3plo breviori limbo basi stipitato bi- 
glanduloso; stipulis setaceis caducis; racemis elongatis, basi 
interruptis; floribus racemosis pedicellatis; bracteis subulatis 
setaceis; sepalis g 5 ovalis lanceolatis obtusis stellato-pilosis, 
sparse lepidotis; petalis oblongis subobtusis extra lepidotis 
