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Hymenodictyon scabrum, Stapf, sp. nov.; affinis H. parvi- 
folio, Oliv., sed foliis scabris, fructibus paulo majoribus differt. 
Frutex parvus; rami dense puberuli, demum glabrati, cortice 
brunneo parce lenticellato obtecti. Folia oblanceolata vel obovato- 
lanceolata, breviter acuminata, basi longe acuminata, 5-6 cm. 
longa, 2:5-3 em. lata, papyracea, utrinque scabra, nervis utrinque 
circiter 5 perobliquis ; petiolus 1-1:5 em. longus. Inflorescentia 
Jloresque ignoti. Infructescentia paniculata 25 em. longa, 12 em. 
lata; pedicelli 8-5 mm. longa. Capsula oblongo-ovoidea, haud 
compressa, acuta, 15-18 mm. longa, 7-8 mm. diametro, ob valvas 
fere ad medium bifidas subsqualiter 4-fida, septo persistente a 
basi sursum recedente et evanido. Semina 6-7, elliptica, 10- 
12 mm. longa alis inclusis, nucleo 4 mm. vix longiore. 
Nile Province, Bari Country, Dawe, 885. 
This is possibly only a state of Grant's plant from the same 
country, mentioned as Hymenodictyon sp. ?, by Oliver in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. vol. xxix. (1873) p. 82, and in Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. iii. 
p. 42, although the latter has much broader leaves almost soft to 
the touch, the hairs being few and notrigid. Oliver's description 
of the inflorescences as lateral rests evidently on a misconception 
of Graut's note, quoted in the Trans. Linn. Soc. 4. e., there being 
with Grant's speeimen only a detached branch of an inflorescence 
in the Kew Herbarium. Grant says “A fruit-bearing branch 
grows opposite a leaf-bearing one.” 
Randia nilotica, Stapf, sp. nov.; affinis R. dumetorum, Lam., 
sed floribus fructibusque minoribus, corollæ tubo breviore annulo 
piloso ad medium instructo, receptaculo glabro, bacce cortice 
exsiccando crustaceo. 
Frutex 15-5 m. altus; rami rigidi, sepe subanfructuosi, 
ramulis induratis spinescentibus 1:5-2 cm. longis armati, cortice 
albido vel niveo levi tecti. Folia in brachycladiis brevissimis 
sub spinis ortis fasciculata, obovata, apice rotundata vel sub- 
acuta, basi longe cuneatim attenuata, 2-3:5 cm. longa, 1:2-2 cm. 
lata, erassiuscula, juvenilia cinereo-pubescentia plerumque mox 
omnino glabrata, nervis lateralibus utrinque 3-4 inconspicuis ; 
petiolus vix ullus; stipule minute, ciliate. Flores 1, raro 
2 ex apieibus brachycladiorum, erecti vel nutantes, pedi- 
cellati; pedicelli ad 5 mm. longi. Receptaculum turbinato- 
globosum, 1:5 mm. longum, glabrum. Calyx circiter 5 mm. 
longus, ad medium 5-partitus ; lobi obovati, basi valde contracti, 
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