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7-12 mm. long. Two outer sepals 7-8 mm. long by 5-6 mm. 

 broad, the two inner slightly shorter and narrower, the third 

 intermediate in size and shape. Corolla (withering) 3 cm. long, 

 with tube 1-1-5 cm. long and 3 mm. in diameter, apparently of a 

 deep purple colour. Filaments 4-8 mm. long, anthers 3 mm. long, 

 slender style 12 mm. long. 



Near A. iwdvacea, but certainly distinct, from its cordate-based 

 leaves with their rui,niloss upper surface, broader sepals, &c. 



Hab. British Ea&t Africa ; near Lake Marsabit, Lord Delamere, 

 1898. 



A. Delamereana, sp. nov. Suffrutex caule robusto velut 

 pedunculis, petiolisque densiter subferrugine stellato-tomentoso ; 

 foliis pro gencre magnis late ovatis vel suborbicularibus, obtusis, 

 basi subcordatis, margine undulato, utrinque stellato-pilosulis, 

 venis at venulis in facie inferiore prominentibus stellato-tomen- 

 tosis, petiolis robustis, quam foUa 5-plo brevioribus ; floribus 

 pluribus brevi-pedicellatis, in pedunculis robustis quam folia 

 brevioribus, capituliformiter aggregatis, braeteolis parvis oblongo- 

 acumiuatis, caducis ; sepalis binis externis ovatis obtusiusculis 

 dorso stellato-pilosulis, cetera angustiora (lanceolata) occludentibus; 

 corolla calycem quadruplo supemnte, ut apparet anguste infundi- 

 buHforme, areis mesopetalis glabris, cum nervis tril)us conspicuis 

 lineatis ; filamentis iuaequalibus tubo inclu4s, antheris oblongo- 

 sagittatis, pollme echinulato; stigmatibus rhomboidalibus ; ovario 

 glabro ; fruciu ... 



The specimen consists of the ends of a stout flowering branch, 

 with several closely arranged leaves and axillary peduncles bearing 

 a number of flowers crowded in a head. Shoot strong, woody, 

 •5 cm. thick. Leaves 6-10 cm. long and broad, base shallowly 

 cordate; petiole 1-5-2-5 cm. long. Peduncles generally 3-5 cm. 

 long by about 2 mm. thick ; pedicels generally less than -5 cm. 

 long. Sepals about 1 cm. long, the outer 4 mm. broad, the inner 

 narrowing to 3 mm. Corolla 4*5 cm. long, the tube -5 cm. or less 

 in diameter; filaments about 1 cm. long or less, anthers -5 cm. 



A well-marked species, distinguished from A. malvacea by the 

 broader more orbicular leaf, the dense capitate inflorescence, longer 

 sepals, &c. 



Hab. British East Africa ; Cantalla and Hadda, Lord Delamercy 

 1898. 



A. HYOSCYAMOIDES Hall. f. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xviii. 121 (1893). 



British East Africa; Uganda, G. F. Scott Elliot, no. 6300, 

 1893-4. 



Lepistemon africanum Oliv. in Hook. Icon. PI. t. 1270 (1878). 



Mt. Ruwenzori, G. F. Scott Elliot, no. 8098, 1893-4. 



DicHONDRA REPEMs Forst. var. SKRiCKA Choisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 451 . 

 British East Africa; Kavirondo, G. F. Scott Elliot, 1893-4, no. 

 7062. 



EvoLVULUs NUMMULARius L. Sp. PI. ed. ii. 391 (1762). 



British East Africa; Nyanza, G. F, Scott Elliot, lS9S-4:,no.llS5, 



