43.4, MR. G. F. SCOTT ELLIOT ON THE GENUS PENTAS. 
Hort. Serampore! Kew! 1. Moore, Chelsea! Herb. Gay ! 
Martinique ! 
—Var. b. comorensis, Scott Elliot, var. nov.; corolle tubo 
15 mm. longo; lobis 5 mm. externe vix hirsutis ; floribus 
lilacinis fere zygomorphis, antheris plurime inclusis, sed non- 
nullis exsertis. ; 
Johanna Island. Hildebrand, 1614! Humblot, 24! Bojer ! 
Inndsey! Hutton! Speke! Kirk! Blackburne! Terry! Angacilla, 
Brewster! Kirk! 
Mohilla (corolla lobes 3 mm. pubescence whiter) decomposed 
volcanic matter, Queenstown, Bojer! Kirk! Boivin! 
Sunny places up to 1,500 feet. Flowers June to August. 
—Var. ec. QUARTINIANA; corolle tubo 17 mm. longo, lobis 
6 mm., externe fere glabris, antheris plurime inclusis. 
Abyssinia. Banks of dry streams, Amora gellel, Schimper, 
548 ! Schahagenne, Schimper, 93! high gorges, Madi rocks, 
Speke! open ground, Ukidi Forest, Speke! Parkyns! Salt! 
Plowden! 5,500 feet altitude. 
Kilimanjaro. 6,000 feet, Johnston ! 
Ruwenzori. 9-11,000 feet, Scott Elliot, 7959! 
Uganda, Wilson ? 
Flowers (crimson?) in rains, J uly and November to December 
—Var. d. Ktorzscut; corolle tubo 13 mm., Jobis 5 mm., 
externe sparse hirsutis, floribus dimorphicis rubris. 
Eastern Desert. Ribe, Wakefield! Mombasa, Kirk! Scott 
Elliot, 6122! 
Zanzibar. Coral, Hildebrandt, 1124! 
Usambara. Dugobusch, Holst, 3211 (sub nomine, P. zanzi- 
barica, in Herb. Kew). 
Nyassa. Buchanan, 1187! 1285! 
—Var. e. Wetwitscut; wo 
od meadows, Menino Huilla, Wel- 
witsch, 5308! 
11. Peytas Woonn, 8. Lilliot, sp. nov. 
Frutex ramis teretibus hirsutis ; foliis lanceolatis subacutis 
ad basin longe attenuatis petiolatis (petiolis ad 12 mm. sed 
plurime 2-3 mm.), supra subtusque sparse hirsutis, ee 
10-jugis, 9-16 cm. longis, 6-22 mm. latis : stipularum setis circa 
10 mm. ; cyme ramis primariis plurime 4, cum 6-10 floribus 
albis sessilibus distantibus (more Otomerie et varietatum 
P. carnee) ; calycis tubo campanulato obscure sulcato, lobis 
