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of 4. tomentosa, Forsk., var. Bovei—Lopr. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Rom. 
ix. 18, in Malpighia, xiv. 431. 
Nile Land. Nubia: in the shingle-desert in the vicinity of Berber, Speke & 
Grant ! 
I describe above the Kew specimen, which I esteem an extreme desert burnt-up 
state of 2. tomentosa, var. Bovei. I have not got an authentic example of 
Lopriore’s 42. Ruspolii, and only guess this to be his plant from his full description, 
and the identic habitat, 
3. AE. leucura, Moquin in DC. Prodr. xiii. ii. 302. Stem 3-4 ft. 
high, suberect, often much branched towards the top, simply hairy, or in 
age often glabrate (without stellate hairs). Leaves alternate, 2-3 in. 
long, broadly oblong, simply hairy when young. Spikes 1 by } in., 
dense, white (smaller than those of J. tomentosa), on the elongate 
obliquely ascending upper branches of the stem. Bracts and sepals 
mucronate or subaristate, the glabrous white soft points shining through 
the plentiful fine hair of the flowers. Style-branches 2, short, sometimes 
very short.—Schinz in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 109, 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. Append. iii. 65; Warb. in Baum, Kunene- 
Samb. Exped. 231, 433. Ouret scandens, Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 
i, 893, excl. syn. O. lanata, Hiern, lc. 893, partly (i.e., Welwitsch, 
6494), 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in maize-fields near Eme, 3500-5800 ft., 
Welwitsch, 6494! Bumbo; edges of saccharum-fields, Welwitsch, 6496! Chitanda 
River, 3700 ft., Baum, 946! German South-west Africa: Hereroland; Rehoboth, 
Schinz, 5, Fleck, 149 ; Otjitambe, Belch, 41, Fleck, 528. 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: east coast of Lake Nyasa, John- 
son, 17! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Zomba, Sharpe, 199! Blantyre, 
Buchanan, 1246! Namasi, Cameron, 17! Shire and Shupanga, Stewart ! Lower 
Shire, Meller ! Malanga, Scott / Magomero, Meller ! 
Also in South Africa, 
The Indian 4. scandens is a large climber, the lateral branches springing at 
right angles from the stem, the inflorescence running off into “linear panicles,” 
unlike that of . leucura. 
Brit. Ind. iv. 728; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iv. 993; Schinz in Engl. & 
Prantl, Pflanzenfam. iii. 1A, 109, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. ii. 
