306 MR. SPENCER MOORE ON THE 
upon the South-western Flora, one is continually finding unde- 
scribed plants gathered by Mr. Een. 
Mr. Whyte’s Composite, as also Mrs. Lort Phillips’s, Dr. 
Donaldson Smith’s, Professor Gregory’s, Lord Delamere’s, Mr. 
Een’s, and Dr. Rand’s, have been described or catalogued else- 
where, either wholly orin part. Mr. Scott Elliot’s have, therefore, 
served as piece de résistance in the present memoir; with them 
appear descriptions of some new species collected by one or other 
of the above. The present opportunity has also been taken 
of intercalating several determinations of Composite plants made 
by me while incorporating into the British Museum herbarium 
a large number of specimens belonging to this order. 
Mr. Scott Elliot’s plants are also at Kew, but, except very 
rarely indeed, I have failed in my search there for specimens 
referable to the other new species here described. 
Bearing in mind the excellent botanical results which have 
accrued from the labours of travellers in British East Africa, it 
is to be hoped that this work will not for the future be relegated 
solely to official hands. Sportsmen and zoological collectors, too, 
while following their respective bents, might easily take a part 
in this pleasant and useful task, and so help in keeping the 
British Museum well supplied. 
Tribe VERNONIACER, 
Houneria, Schweinf. 
H. vERNoNIOIDES, Schweinf. (Plate 8.) 
British East Africa, Guaso Larok and Guaso Laschau; Dr. 
J. W. Gregory. 
Professor Ascherson kindly compared a sketch I sent him 
with the type in Dr. Schweinfurth’s herbarium, and was good 
enough to send me a leaf and a flower-head, at the same time 
indicating some slight discrepancies in the length of the corolla- 
lobes and of the style-arms of the two plants. On setting the 
moistened corollas side by side, I find these differences due to the 
more advanced state of Dr. Gregory’s specimens. In bis letter 
Professor Ascherson further observes that the Sparganophorus- 
hike pappus (see Pl. 8. fig. He) does not occur in the type- 
specimen. 
GurenBerata, Sch. Bip. 
G. Rvvretri, Sch. Bip. 
Machakos; Dr. S. L. Hinde. 
