almost black-purple. - No one would guess that they were 
the same species. 
It is stated under T. ethiopica in this work, that it has 
a wide geographical range. Madame Tinne found it at Djur, 
in Ethiopia, in lat. 8° N., Dr. Kirk on the Manganjer Hills 
in lat. 17° 8., Capt. (now Col. Sir Jas.) Grant in the Umyow 
Forest, lat. 3° N. Since that time it has been collected at 
various places in Central and Kastern Africa by Petherick, 
and lastly from the coast itself at Mombassa, opposite 
Zanzibar, by Schweinfurth. 
From the last-named locality Sir John Kirk had the 
goodness to procure plants, one of which he sent to Kew 
in a Ward’s case. It arrived safely, flowered in May, 1883, 
and is here pourtrayed. Sir John happened to be at home 
on leave, and I directed his attention to the extraordinary 
difference between it and both the previously-figured plants 
in habit, foliage and flower; but his experienced eye, which 
is one of those that can recognize important resemblances 
under a very thick mask of differences, led him to the con- 
clusion that they were all climatal varieties of one species ; 
and reflecting how much our own plants had degenerated 
since they had been removed to the Palm House, I did not 
doubt his conclusion, and that soil or cultivation. would 
account for the variations. Soon after his return to Zanzibar 
last autumn, he sent me (in November) flowering specimens 
from off the same bush as that from which the Kew plant _ 
now figured was taken, and it certainly differs most re- ~ 
markably from the Kew one and from Schweinfurth’s wild | 
specimens, the leaves being quite minute, not’a quarter of 
an inch long, and the inflorescence forming terminal racemes 
six to eight inches long; the flowers on the other hand 
appear to be identical. 
It remains to add that specimens in the Herbarium 
collected by Grant and by Petherick have quite the robust 
habit and size of leaf of the original Magazine plate, and 
have flowers much larger than that now published; so that 
I suspect Madame Tinne may have sent seeds from plants 
growing in a different locality or soil from those that pre- 
_ vailed when the dried specimens which supplied the plate 
in Plante Tinneane were obtained. Curiously enough, the 
last specimens received at Kew of T. ethiopica were sent — 
for naming by Baron Eggers from Dominica (in the West — 
