Rumex. | CIX. POLYGONACEH (BAKER AND WRIGHT). 115 
as the perianth-lobes. Nutlet 1} lin. long, acutely triquetrous, light 
brown.—A. Br. in Flora, 1841, i. 278; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 68; 
T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 645; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 
li. 229; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 171; Oliv. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 141; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 203; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 905; var. Schimperi, Aschers. l.c. ; 
Engl. l.c.; var. Kilimandschari, Engl. l.c. &. Schimperi, Meisn. l.c. 67, 
not of Vatke. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 603 ! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 398! Ankober, Roth, 
541! and without precise locality, Schimper, 514! Petit! Quartin-Dillon! 
Uganda: Mawokota, Brown, 180! Ruwenzori, at Kinata, 6000-9000 ft., Scott- 
Llliot, 7700! Unyoro, Speke § Grant, 625 ! 
Lower Guinea. Cameroons, 2600 ft., Zenker & Staudt! Angola: Pungo 
Andongo; in rocky places by the streams of Catete and Cabonda, Welwitsch, 5356 ! 
Huilla; by streams, Welwitsch, 5357! Malange, Gossweiler, 1024! 1025! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Karagwe, Speke & Grant, 418! 
Kilimanjaro, 7olkens, 423! British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Namasi, Mandala, 
Cameron, 3! Blantyre, top of Wilandi, Buchanan, 22! Shire Highlands, 
Buchanan, 383! summit of Chiradzulu Mountain, Cameron! Masuku Plateau, 
Whyte! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 {t., Whyte! Mount Mlanji, Adamson, 355! 
Mwata Manga stream, Kirk / and without precise locality, Buchanan, 790! 
Var. angustisectus, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 203. Leaf-segments linear, 
acute, the central one 3-4 times as long as the lateral, 8 in. long, 1 in. wide. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Begemeder; near Debra-Tabor, 9000 ft., Schimper, 
1527! : 
Var. Mannii, Engl. 1.c. Leaves triangular, acuminate, up to 4 in, long and 
33 in. wide, pilose beneath. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons, 4000-7000 ft., Mann, 1217! 1978! 
2. R. maderensis, Lowe, Nov. Fl. Mad.12. A shrub up to 10 ft. 
high. Branches striate, glabrous. Leaves often crowded on short 
lateral branchlets, distinctly petioled, ovate, acute, hastate or cordate or 
furnished with small deflexed auricles, moderately firm, 14-2 in. long. 
Flowers hermaphrodite, in ample terminal panicles; branches and 
branchlets spreading ; lower branches very compound, subtended at the 
base by reduced leaves ; flowers several in a cluster; pedicels capillary, 
longer than the flowers. Inner segments of the fruiting perianth 
cordate-orbicular, bright red, entire, strongly reticulated——Webb & 
Berth. Phytog. Canar. iii. iii. 287; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 67; T. 
Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 645; Oliv. in Trans. Linn, Soc. xxix. 
142,+. 90. R. tingitanus, Webb & Berth. |.c., not of Linn. 
Nile Land. Uganda: Ruwenzori; Yeria, 7000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7759! 
British East Africa: valley near Lake Nakaro, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6792! 
Kilungu River, in Ukamba, Scott-Elliot, 2357 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Mininga, Speke & Grant, 77! 
Kilimanjaro, Smith! Marangu, Volkens, 2104! higher plateau north of Lake 
Nyasa, Thomson! and without precise locality, Busse, 355! British Central Africa ; 
