flowers, which are not umbelled at the end of a long 
peduncle. 
I. Sultani is one of the numerous and not the least 
beautiful of the discoveries of Sir John Kirk, K.C.M.G., 
Political Resident at Zanzibar, whose scientific labours, 
first as the companion of Livingstone on his second ex- 
pedition, and since in his official capacity, has thrown more 
light on the Flora of Hastern Tropical Africa than all other 
explorers put together. I have named it in honour of that 
distinguished potentate, the Sultan of Zanzibar, to whose 
enlightened and philanthropic rule Hastern Africa owes so 
much, 
Desor. A glabrous, erect, branched, rather succulent 
herb; stem and branches stout, terete, green. Leaves two 
to three inches long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base 
acute, crenate-serrate with a bristle in the angle of every 
serrature, pale green, base narrowed into a petiole three- 
quarters to one and a half inches long. lowers solitary 
and axillary, or two to three on very short peduncles, one 
to one and a half inches in diameter; bracts minute. Sepals 
small, lanceolate, acuminate. Petals quite flat, scarlet; 
dorsal (or standard) obovate - orbicular retuse, rather 
smaller than the others; lateral petals (or wings) cleft to 
the base into obovate-cuneate equal flat lobes. Lip not 
half the length of the petals, lanceolate in outline, suddenly 
contracted into a slender up-curved spur as long or twice 
as long as the petals.—J. D. H. 
: Fig. 1, Portion of margin of leaf; 2, lip with its spur and two sepals at its base ; 
stamens before the dehiscence of the anthers; 4, the same after dehiscence ; 
5, ovary :—all enlarged, 
