THE PLANTS OF WELWITSCH's APONTAMENTOS. 139 



named as trichoides, but I doubt their being correct ; there is 

 no flower or fruit. To the distribution add Asia, "Anti Libanos " 

 Post, a plant described as P. Phiahe Post in Bull. Boisaier, i. 409, 

 but IS meant to be tlie var. tuboxulosus Eeich. Icunes. There are 

 specimens in herbaria from S. Africa named "P. obtusi/olius," &c. ; 

 they are, I believe, a form of P. Friesii Eupr. 



P. FLABELLATUs Bab. I havc seen African specimens of this 

 from Madagascar and Egypt. 



P. ALPiNus Balbis {B. m/escens Schrad.). Cape of Good Hope, 

 in "Brack river " ! 



P. Zizii Eoth. Madagascar. 



In addition to these, there is a species in Lake Nyassa allied to 

 P. Hobbinsu Oakes, of N. America ; whether it is that species or 

 a new species, the fragmentary specimens seen are quite insufficient 

 to decide. 



The reference "lies Mariannes" under P. liicens L. belongs 

 rather to /-". mucronatus Presl, a good species, very distinct in 

 foliage, and especially fruit, from lucens. It occupies a limited 

 area, occurring in China, Japan, Loo Choo Isles, Philippines, 

 Borneo, Tibet, and rarely in India. 



I see that iSolms-Laubach has described (Schweinf. Fl. jEtkiop. 

 194, 292 (1867)) the Abyssinian specimens (Schimper, i. 135) as 

 a species [P. Pachardii) ; when I suggested that this was new 1 was 

 unaware that he had done so. 



THE PLANTS OF WELWITSCH'S APONTAMENTOS, &c. 

 By W. p. Hiern, M.A., F.L.S. 



The contribution of the Editor (pp. 70-77) on the subject of the 

 plants named in Welwitsch's Apontamentos 2Jhyto-geographicu8 and 

 Synapse explicativa cannot fail to prove serviceable to students of 

 the Botany of Western Tropical Africa ; a few supplementary notes 

 may be supplied. 



The date of publication of the Apontamentos phyto-fjeographicos 

 sobre a jiora da provincia de Aiiyola, &c., must not be taken as 

 December, 1858 : it is true that this latter date is printed on every 

 sheet of the publication, namely, at the foot of the first and every 

 subsequent eighth page, and is thus repeated so as to occur nine 

 times altogether; but on the last page, 593, there are furnished 

 observations bearing date " Lisboa, 15 de Novembro de 1859," and 

 there was also given on the same page a further explanatory note 

 containing the following words: — " Motivos independentes da re- 

 dac9ao do Boletim e Annaes do Conselho Ultramarino, demoraram 

 a publica9ao d'este numero. Esta circumstancia permittier que 

 n'elle se inserisse o catalogo da interessante coUec^ao de sementes 

 enviada de Angola pelo sr. Dr. Welwitsch. Nao tendo porem elle 

 sido ordenado para a imprensa, foi necessario organisa-lo para ser 

 publicado, sem que, pela estreiteza de tempo, podesse ser consultado 

 illustre auctor." it thus appears that the Apontamentos was pub- 



