520 DR. O. STAPF—PLANTJE NOVJE 
recurvi, decidui, denticulis interjectis. Corolle albæ, tubus vix 
e tubo calycino exsertus, a basi ad medium glaber, abhine argenteo- 
sericeus, intus ad medium annulo denso pilorum instructus ; lobi 
rotundati, 5 mm. diametro, extus argenteo-sericei, intus tenuis- 
sime cinereo-velutini, Stamina ore inserta; filamenta perbrevia ; 
anthers oblonge, 3 mm. longe. Stylus 8 mm. longus; stigma 
ovoideum, 2-lobum. Bacca globosa vel subglobosa, glaberrima, 
16-22 mm. diametro, sepe tubo calycino persistente coronata, 
cortice vivo ad 3 mm. crasso succulento exsiccando valde con- 
tracto tenui. Semina numerosa in pulpa purpurea nidulantia, 
ellipsoidea, subeompressa, 5 mm. longa; testa alutacea, leevis.— 
Randia dumetorum, Tiern, in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 94, i. p., non 
Lam. 
SENNAAR TO JUR AND ZaANZIBAR. Sennaar, Kotschy, 400! 
Abyssinia, Tigre, near Adeganna, Schimper, sect. ii. no. 1002! 
Sudan, Bahr el Jebel, Muriel, 4! Jur, near Kurrehuk Als 
Seriba, Sehweinfurth, 4304! Uganda, Nile Provinee, Dawe, 
882! British East Africa, Mombasa, Wakefield! Hildebrandt, 
1965! 
Mr. Dawe describes the shrub as pubescent when young. This 
probably refers to the young long-shoots, of which there are 
none with the specimens enumerated above, and only some of the 
leaves of the short-shoots have still retained traces of pubescence. 
There is, however, a specimen at Kew, collected by Schweinfurth 
at Donkollo, Eretrea, which consists of young long-shoots with 
their leaves still attached and with very young short-shoots in 
the axils of the latter. Most of the leaves of these long-shoots 
are rather less obtuse than those of the short-shoots and the 
longest are up to 5 em. long. They are all softly pubescent, and 
have broad-triangular scarious stipules. The branches are softly 
pubescent like the leaves. There are tio flowers with the 
specimen. The fruits accompanying it are, however, exactly 
like those described above. 
Hiern referred (7. e.) to Randia dumetorum also a specimen 
collected by Grant in the Madi Country. This very much re- 
sembles Randia nilotica, but it is Vangueria tetraphylla, Schweint.: 
Kirk’s specimens referred likewise to Randia dumetorum belong 
to two species—one with large oblong fruits, persistently tomen- 
tose leaves, and very few, short spines (Tete, Lupata, Chiradzula); 
the other identical with R. Lachnosiphonium, Hochst., a species 
so far recorded only from Natal. 
