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28715 to 28730— Continued. 



28729. Ophiobostryx volubilis (Harvey) Skeels. 



(Bowiea volubilis Harvey; Hooker, Botanical Magazine, vol. 93, pi. 5619. 

 1867.) 



The original generic name given this curious liliaceous plant is invalid since 

 it had been used by Hawerth 43 years earlier (Philosophical Magazine, vol. 64, 

 p. 299, 1824) for another proposed genus belonging to the same family. No 

 other name has been applied to the later genus Bowiea, and Ophiobostryx is 

 therefore proposed, in allusion to the leafless asparaguslike branches suggesting 

 snaky locks, such as supplanted hair on the head of the monster Medusa, accord- 

 ing to classical mythology. The genus has only one species, 0. volubilis. 



Ophiobostryx volubilis was first sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, by Henry 

 Hutto, of Grahamstown, South Africa, and has since been found at Katberg in the 

 Stockenstrom division of the coast region, in the Orange River Colony and 

 Transvaal, in the Kalahari region, and near Transkei, Kokstad, and Durban, 

 in the eastern part of Cape Colony. 



28730. Mondia whiteii (Hook, f.) Skeels. 



(Chlorocodon whiteii Hook, f., Botanical Magazine, pi. 5898, 1871.) 



The generic name Chlorocodon, " in allusion to the bell-like green flowers, " 

 was applied to this plant in 1871 by Sir Joseph Hooker (Botanical Magazine, vol. 

 97, pi. 5898), who was doubtless unaware that the name had been used by 

 Fourreau in 1869 (Annales de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon, n. s., vol. 17, 

 p. 113) for a proposed genus of ericaceous plants. No other name appears to 

 have been used for the later genus known as Chlorocodon, and since a new 

 name is necessitated Mondia is proposed, this being an adaptation of the 

 native name "Mondi, " or "Mundi," applied to this plant. 



Mondia whiteii was originally described from Fundisweni, Natal, but has since 

 been collected at Yaunde in Kamerun; Bumbo, Pungo Ndongo, and other 

 places in Angola; also at Karagwe and Bukoba in German East Africa, and in 

 Nyasaland. 



28731 and 28732. Solanum maglia Schlecht. Wild potato. 



From Marseille, France. Presented by Dr. Edouard Heckel, director, Botanic 

 Garden. Received September 1, 1910. 



28731. Fourth generation, violet. 



28732. Fourth generation, violet. 

 Distribution. — See No. 28705. 



28733 to 28738. 



From Fort Hall, Nairobi, British East Africa. Presented by Mr. J. McClellan, 

 Provincial Commission. Received July 29, 1910. 



Seeds of the following: 



28733. Andropogon sorghum (L.) Brot. Sorghum. 

 "This lot represents a mixture of two of the East African sorghum types, 



probably durras, one with white seeds and one with red. Such mixtures are 

 commonly received from central East Africa and from Abyssinia, but the 

 varieties have always proved too late to mature in this country. " (Carleton 

 R. Ball) 



28734. Cajan indicum Spreng. 

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