538 Floristik, Geographie, Systematik etc. 



Anonymus, Decades Kewensis. Decas LXXVII. (Kew Bull. 

 Mise. Inform. N^. 4. p. 150—156. 1914.) 



The following are the new species which are described : Clemaiis 

 Rehderiana, Craib (China), C. Veitchiana, Craib (China), Xylosma 

 Aqtäfolmm, Sprague (Hab.?), Dimbaria gracilipes, Lace (Burma), 

 Anogeissus coroiiata, Stapf (India), Ardisia gracilis, Lace (Burma), 

 Cotylantheya caerulea, Lace (Burma), Thitnbergia niacidata, Lace 

 (Burma), Ficiis cupulata, Haines (India), Chamaedorea nana, N. E. 

 Brown (Costa Rica). M. L. Green (Kew). 



Anonymus, Diagnoses Africanae. LIX. (Kew Bull. Mise. 

 Inform. N^. 4. p. 167—171. 1914.) 



The foUowing new species are described: Crassida clavaia, 

 N. E. Brown (Cape of Good Hope), Mesenibryantheminn fulviceps, 

 N. E. Brown (Great Namaqualand), Ceropegia abinsica, N. E. Brown 

 (N. Nigeria), Metaporana, N. E. Brown, gen. nov. of the family Con- 

 volvidaceae, Metaporana densiflora N. E. Brown {Poraua densiflora), 

 Metaporana angolensis, N. E. Brown (Angola), Acrocephahis trira- 

 mosus, N. E. Brown (Angola), Aeolanthus lobatus, N. E. Brown 

 (Angola), Anthericttm acutum, C. H. Wright (Natal), Fuirena cristata, 

 Turrill (Angola), Mariscus laxiflorus, Turrill (Angola). 



M.'L. Green (Kew). 



Anonymus, Diagnoses Africanae. LVIII. (Kew Bull. Mise. 

 Inform. W. 3. p. 132—137. 1914.) 



The new species are Anacampseros rhodesica, N. E. Brown 

 (Rhodesia), Helichrysum eriophorum, Conrath (Transvaal), iSenecio 

 urophyUus, Conrath (Transvaal), Wahlenbergia midtiflora, Conrath 

 (Transvaal). Harveya crispula, Conrath (Transvaal), Gladiolus atro- 

 rubens, N. E. Brown (Transkei), Anthericttm erythrorrhyzum, Conrath 

 (Transvaal), Rhynchospora angolensis, Turrill (Angola), Scleria ango- 

 lensis, Turrill (Angola), 5. induta, Turrill (Angola). 



M. L. Green (Kew). 



Black, J. M., Addition s to the flora of South Australia- 

 NO. 7. (Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia. XXXVIL p. 121 — 124. 

 2 pl. 1913.) 



The following novelties are described in this paper: Helichry- 

 sum Mellorianum, sp. nova, Augianthus Whitei, sp. nova, Griffithia, 

 gen. novum, G. helipteroides, sp. nova. M. L. Green (Kew). 



Black, J. M., The flowering and fruiting of Pectinella ant- 

 arctica (Cymodocea antavctica). (Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia. 

 XXXVIL p. 1—5. 1 pl. 1913.) 



The plant hitherlo known as Cymodocea antarctica (and hy md^ny 

 other names) is made the type of a new genus — Pectinella — and 

 named P. antarctica. An account is given of the history of the plant 

 from its discovery in 1791 tili 1913 when both male and female 

 flowers were found. M. L. Green (Kew). 



