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omitted from the Flora may be added to those given by Mr. Hiern 

 (I.e. 109, 110); LfUC((S ci/iata /3 hirsitta is the name under which 

 Kotschy's [)lant, the type of Bcntham's L. 'inihica, was disiributed ; 

 it is cited by Bentham (DC. Prodr. xii. 530) as '• L. ciliata Hochst. 

 non Benth." Tiie names (only) in Brown's a)>pf ndix to Salt's 

 Abyssinia have of course no claim to recognition; but, as Moliicrel'a 

 iiitetjrifolia is quoted, it is not easy to see why j\[. scariosa and M. 

 repanda, which stand upon precisely the same footing, are omitted. 

 Acrocephalus villosus Thoms. (non Benth.) in Appendix to Speke's 

 Journal, 644, might have been quoted under A. cijUndraceus. 



In the genus Ociminu, the correlation (in the appendix) of the 

 Welwitsch plants taken up in the Flora with those of Mr. Hiern's 

 Catalogue is imperfect. For example, Welwitsch 5571, which 

 Mr. Baker makes the type of a new species, is placed by Mr. Hiern 

 without doubt under O. americanum Mill. (0. caniim Sims) ; No. 

 5583, which according to Mr. Hiern is partly 0. americanum and 

 partly 0. kmjanum, is placed by Mr. Baker under the former ; No. 

 5568, similarly divided by Mr. Hiern, is not cited in the Flora ; 

 No. 5572, according to Mr. Hiern is 0. suave, according to Mr. 

 Baker, O. viride. Under 0. Johnstonii, 0. graveohns Oliv. in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. series 2, ii. 347 (not of A. Br.) should have been cited. 



In the genus MoJanthns, the Welwitsch correlation is again 

 imperfectly done. For example, Mr. Hiern refers three Welwitsch 

 numbers to M. Welwitschii Briq., and the plants they represent 

 are manifestly identical. In the Flora, however, one of the tliree 

 is taken as the type of a new species, .^. cnueifoliits Baker (which 

 is placed in a section to wiiich it cannot possibly belong), and no 

 reference is made to Mr. Hiern's determination. In the same way, 

 the two numbers identified by Mr. Hiern as j^. Engleri Briq. are 

 considered in the Flora as two species, one of tbem new ; and no 

 allusion is made to the identification in the Welwitsch Catalogue. 

 There are indeed many evidences that the comparison of the two 

 books has been done in a perfunctory manner : e. g. on p. 459 it is 

 stated that Salvia pseadococcinea "was found by Welwitsch in 

 Angola," whereas Mr. Hiern rightly records it for the island of 

 Madeira. 



Plectranthus cylindracem Hochst. In the Welwitsch Catalogue 

 (i. 861) Mr. Hiern unites with this species, which he places under 

 Germanea (an earlier name for the genus), Geniosporum lasiostachymn 

 of Briquet (in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xix. 164) — a species estabUshed 

 on the Welwitsch number (5489) which Mr. Hiern places under 

 P. cyJindraceus. In the Flora of Tropical Africa (v. 351) Mr. Baker 

 retains Geniosporum, lasiostachyum, citing Welwitsch 5489, but 

 adds a note that " Welwitsch's 5489 is represented at Kew by a 

 Plfctranthus,'' Later on in the same monograph (p. 414) Mr. 

 Baker establishes a new species, P. moschosmoides, upon Welwitsch 

 5489. In the National Herbarium we have besides Welwitsch's 

 specimens the type of Hochstetter's cylindrareus ; and there can be 

 no doubt as to these being identical. Mr. Baker, in his key to the 

 species, characterizes P. moschosmoides as having entire leaves, those 

 of P. cylindraceus being crenate ; but the leaves in Welwitsch's plant 



