138 Vermischte neue Diagnosen. 
longa, 9 mm lata minute denseque pilosa aurantiaca crassa. Stamina 
coerulea; filamenta crassa c. 6—7 mm longa 1 mm lata; antherae crassae, 
obovato-suborbiculares, c. 3 mm longae, versus centrum floris ad fila- 
menta affixae, loculis hippocrepiformibus, rimo dehiscentibus, connectivo 
crasso, dorso dilatato, apice glandula parva rotunda aucto. — Ovarium 
5-loculare, apice applanato striis 10 radiatis cum staminibus {alternanti- 
bus donato; loculis pro rato parvis, placenta in quoque locula columnam 
erectam basilarem formante; ovulis 7—8 dependentibus ad apicem pla- 
centae columnaris affixis. — Stylus glaber, teres c. 15 mm longus, apice 
stigmate punctiformi. — Fructus baccatus globosus, c. 21 mm longus, 
apice lobis calycis coronatus, saepissime 5-sperma, semina testa coriacea 
lucida, apice obtusa, basi acuminata, 1 cm longa, 0,6 cm lata. — Suri- 
nam; herb. forest. no. 31, blühend und fruchttragend am 31. Oktober 
1905. — Einheimischer Name: Spykerhout (= Nagelholz). — Holz als 
Bauholz benutzt. Frucht essbar. — Diese Art zeigt in ihrem Habitus 
wohl die grösste Übereinstimmung mit M. crassifolia Sagot, unterscheidet 
sich aber u. m. durch den hóchst eigentümlichen Bau der Antheren und 
des Fruchtknotens. 
560. Opuntia vivipara Rose in Smiths. Misc. Coll., LII, no. 1815 (1908), 
p. 153, pl. XII. — Stems 2 to 3,5 m high, usually several from the base, 
8 to 10 cm in diameter, much branched, but not compactly so; old 
stems with rather smooth bark; young branches bluish green, slender, 
1 to 2 cm long, 10 to 12 mm in diameter; tubercles low, oblong, 15 to 
20 mm long; areoles when young forming a dense cushion of yellow 
wool with few or no glochides; spines 1 to 4, 2 cm or less long, covered 
with straw-colored sheaths; leaves small, terete, acutish, purple; flowers 
numerous, borne in clusters at the top of last year's branches, purplish; 
ovary strongly tubercled, bearing white deciduous bristles; fruit oblong, 
4 to 6 cm long, smooth with a somewhat depressed umbilicus, yellowish- 
green, spineless; seeds white, 5 mm long. — Arizona on a mesa 
near Tucson, to the southwestward, J. N. Rose, April 21, 1908 
(no. 11836). 
561. Orobanche minor Sm.forma conciliata Beck in litt. ad M. C. Mur- 
ray in Ann. Scott. Nat. Hist. no. 64 (1907), p. 253. — Scotland: Fife, 
near Cupar (M. C. Murray). — Corolla excepta basi alba amethystino- 
violacea, squamae calycis cum cauli purpurascentes. It is very inter- 
esting that other Orobanches found in Scotland are also of a darker 
colour, as is the case with O. rubra Hook. 
562. Vicia silvatica L. forma subrotundata A. Bennett in Ann. Scott. 
Nat. Hist. no. 55 (1905), p. 165. — Outer Hebrides: Rocky coast of Scarp, 
off Harris, in the north of the island, where it grows in some quantity, 
festooning the steep cliffs in places, W. S. Duncan, sp. — Contrasted 
with specimens from Obbe, North Harris (W. S. Duncan, sp), the Scarp 
plani looks very different, with its small subrotund leaflets, giving the 
plant more the look of some forms of V. sepium L. From the mainland 
examples the specimens differ in the less portion of the peduncle occu- 
