ALABASTRA DIVERSA 261 



Specimina radice orba usque ad 8-0 cm. alt. Caulis in sicco 

 obtuse alatus et aliquantulo corrugatus, circa 0*2 cm. diam. Folia 

 1-0-1-3 cm. long., 1*0 cm. lat., margine breviter revoluta, radiatim 

 trinervia, nervus medianus subtus eminens. Calyx 1*0 cm. long., 

 in sicco 0-4 cm. lat. ; ala circa 0-5 cm. long., vix 0*2 cm. lat. 

 Corollns tubus l-G-1-8 cm. long., deorsum 0-1 cm. sursum 0-2 cm. 

 diam. ; limbus fere 2*0 cm. diam. ; lobi 0*75 cm. lat. Filamenta 

 circa 0*1 cm., antherarum loculi 0*3 cm., necnon giaudula 0*1 cm. 

 long. Ovarium compressum, ambitu lanceolato-oblongum, 0*4 cm. 

 long., medio 0-17 cm. lat. 



The leaves of this beautiful little plant are much like those of 

 Sebcea crassulafolia Cham. & Schlecht., only not nearly so markedly 

 amplexicaul. The flowers of the two are, of course, quite different. 

 No Belmontia known to me, either by specimens or by description, 

 could possibly be mistaken for the above. I have used the generic 

 name Parasia, as it enjoys a few months' priority over Belmontia. 



Pseudosopubia Delamerei, sp. nov. Herba erecta, in sicco 

 nigricans, scabrida, caule subtetragono folioso striato, foliis oppositis 

 anguste oblongo-linearibus obtusis sessilibus, bracteis foliis simili- 

 bus junioribus vero brevioribus, pedicellis quam folia brevioribus 

 bracteolis 2 parvis oppositis anguste linearibus onustis, floribus pro 

 genere magnis, calycis evanide nervosi late campanulati in sicco 

 atro-cyanei glabri lobis triangulari-deltoideis acutiusculis quam 

 tubus brevioribus, corollae extus glabrae tubo sursum maxime ampli- 

 ficato necnon inflate deorsum sensim ac leviter attenuate prope 

 basin tubiformi, labiis duobus latissimis postico emarginato antico 

 breviter trilobo lobis ambitu fere semicircnlaribus undulatis, 

 antherarum thecis oblongis sursum leviter attenuatis ibique poro 

 dehiscentibus anticis connectivo elongato fultis, capsula . 



Hab. British East Africa, Dadaro, 3700 feet, 1898; Lord 

 Delamere (Herb. Mus. Brit.). 



Folia 1-0-1-2 cm. long., 0-1-0*15 cm. lat., intervallis 1-0-2-0 cm. 

 inserta, in sicco deflexa. Bracte^e minores usque ad 0-5 cm. 

 imminut^e. Pedicelli patentes, 0-4-0-6 cm. long. Bracteolae circa 

 0-3 cm. long., subapicales. Calyx totus vix 1-0 cm. long. ; limbus 

 1-2 cm. diam. ; tubus 0*6 cm. long. ; lobi 0-35 cm. long., basi vix 

 0-4 cm. lat. Corollae verisimiliter cyane* tubus 1-5 cm. long., basi 

 0-4 cm. sursum paullo ultra 1-0 cm. diam. ; labium posticum vix 

 1-5 cm. long, et 2-0 cm. lat.; labium anticum 2-7 cm. lat., hujus 

 lobi 0-5 cm. long., 1-2 cm. lat. Staminum posticorum filamenta 

 infra medium tubum inserta, 0-8 cm. long. ; horum theca 0-7 cm. 

 long.; staminum anticorum filamenta juxta medium tubum inserta, 

 0-6 cm., theca 1-0 cm., connectivus 0-6 cm., theca abortiva 0-1 cm. 

 et hujus connectivus incur vus 0-4 cm. long. ; et filamenta et con- 

 nectivi crassiusculi. Ovarium late ovoideum, glabrum, 0-3 cm. 

 long. ; stylus 3-0 cm. long. 



The genus Psemlosojmbia has recently (Ann. R. Istit. Bot. Roma, 

 Ann. vii. 28) been estabhshed by Professor Engler, who includes 

 in it, besides a Somaliland plant collected by Riva (P. obtusifolia 

 Engl.), two other species previously referred to Sopubia. The 

 present plant resembles P. Hildebrandtil Engl, somewhat in its 



