110 THE JOUhNAL OF BOTAXV 



linariifoiiitHi and H. undalatum, Ule.v Gallii, Trifolium Bocconi, 

 T. striction, and T. J\folinerii (all three found in Cornwall between 

 1840 and 1850), Astragidus alpimis, Cotoneaster, several species of 

 Caliiiriche. E/dlohiiini lancfolatiim, Bupleunim. falcatnm, (Eiianthe 

 pimpinelloides, Selimim Carvifulia, Inula salicina (found in Ireland in 

 1813, bat not published till 1865), several si)ecies of Arctium, Phy- 

 teiiuia spicatwn, Erica ciiiaris (found in Cornwall), and two other 

 species found in Ireland, the true Primula elattor (1841) and 

 P. scoticd, some subspecies of Myosutis, several species of Oruhanche 

 and Utricularia, Pinguicnla al/dna. Thymus ChamcBdrys, Calamint/ia 

 sylvatica, Stachys alpina, Teucrium Botrys, Herniaria hirsuta, Poly- 

 (jonum maritimum and P. mite, Euphorbia stricta and E. pilosa, 

 Salix lanata, EJodea canadensis, Spiranthes cestivalis in Hants and 

 S. Piomanzoffiana in Ireland, Epipoyum aphyllum, two species of 

 Epipactis, Ophrys arachnites in Kent, Habenaria intacta in Ireland 

 (1864), Romulea Columnce, Sisyrinchium anyustifolium (Ireland), 

 Gladiolus illyricus (Hants), Leucojum vernum, Sim'^this bicolor, 

 several species of Allium, Juncus, and Lrizula, Woljjia Michelii 

 (our smallest flowermg plant), numerous species of Potamoyeton^ 

 Cyperus fitscus, Scirpus nanus and S. cernuus, Eriophorum gracile, 

 about fifteen species of Carc.v, and a like number of Grasses. The 

 last edition of the London Catalogue (1895) contains 1861 separately 

 numbered species of flowering plants, 48 Ferns, 11 Equisetums, 

 5 Lycopodmms, and 33 other species (IsoHcs, Pilulana, Chara, 

 Nitella, &c.) ; but, if we deduct from the above 16 Channel Island 

 species, 192 not indigenous, and about 150! Riibi and Hieracia, 

 it would reduce the number of flowering plants to about 1500, which 

 may be compared with the 1180 with which the century started. 



NOTES ON AFRICAN LABIATiE. 



By James Britten, F.L.S. 



In the course of arranging the African Labiat^e in the National 

 Herbarium in relation to the monograph of the order in the recently 

 published parts of the Elora of Tropical Africa, I have jotted down 

 a few notes which may be taken as supplementary to Mr. Hiern's 

 notice of the work on pp. 108-111. I have printed only those 

 which may be of use to other workers in the same field, and 

 therefore have not cited such additional nimibers or localities as 

 are found in our Herbarium. Many of the notes relate to the 

 Welwitsch collection, of which, as is well known, the British 

 Museum possesses what is practically the study set. It is not 

 quite easy to see on what principle numbers are quoted : for some 

 common species — e.g. Leucas martinicensis, *'a cosmopolitan tropical 

 weed" — the citations are very numerous; in other cases specimens 

 intimately connected with the establishment of the species are not 

 referred to : the numbers of iSchimper, Hildebrandt, Welwitsch, and 

 bcott Elliot are among those incompletely quoted. A few synonyms 



