512 ADDENDA. 
long; limb 14 in.in diam. Capsule }—4 by } in.—Harv. Thes. Cap. ii. 
27, t. 143. 
Lower Guinea. Damaraland, Wiss Elliot. 
Also in extra-tropical Namaqvaland. 
1. Blepharis boerhaavizefolia, Pers. Add: B. boerhaaviefolia, 
var. nigro-venulosa, De Wild. & Durand, Contrib. FI. Congo, 1. fase. 
1, 46. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo: Moanda, J’anderyst. 
This variety is not new ; it is Schweinfurth, 2761, mentioned on p. 96. 
7a. Blepharis tenuiramea, 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1900, 205. 
Branches 2 in. long, slender, erect, much-dividing, strigose, finally 
glabrous. Leaves 1-24 in. long, narrow-linear, spinous-acuminate, 
approximated in very unequal pairs, rarely spinous on the margin. 
Flower-branches very short, closely clustered near the ground, 1-flow- 
ered ; floral ieaves lanceolate-oblong ; bract oblanceolate, spinous on the 
margin ; bracteoles 0. Corolla $-2in. long. Cells of the ovary 1-ovuled. 
Capsule } in. long, ellipsoid. 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa : Nyasaland, Buchanan, 387. 
29. Blepharis grossa, 7’. Anders. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vii. 36. 
Scabrous hairy. Branches 6-10 in, long, bearing no spikes except close 
to the base. Leaves 1} by 4 in., entire, many approximate in fours. 
Spikes clustered close to the crown of the root, 2 by 1 in., 20-30- 
flowered, densely hirsute; bracts 1 by } in., sub-4-ranked, rigid, with 
spinous teeth; bracteoles } in. long, linear. Calyx hairy within and 
without; anticous segment } in. long. Capsule } in. long, flattened, 
en ten thodinm grossum, Nees in DC. Prod. xi. 274, not of 
ight. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Curror ! 
1, Thomandersia laurifolia, Baill, Add: 7. Hensii, De Wild. & 
Durand in Comptes-rendus Soc. Bot. Belg. xxxviii. 108. 
, South Central. Congo Free State: Coquilhatville, Dewevre ; Bangala, Hens, 
- 113! 7 
2, Thomandersia congolana, De Wild. et Durand in Comptes 
rendus Soc. Bot. Bely. xxviii. 107. Corolla red-brown ; tube 1 in. long, 
lobes ;1, in. long; otherwise as 7’. laurifolia, Baill. 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Cabra. 
South Central. Congo Free State: between Sa’embao and Léopoldville, 
Dewevre. 
9«. Barleria Randii, 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1900, 203. Plant 
glabrescent. Leaves elliptic, spinous-acuminate, cuneate at the ba 
hyaline on the margins; floral leaves similar to the others; interpetio™ 
