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axillarium floriferorum tenuissimorum minute pubescentium vel iisdem 

 lateraliter affixis sessilibusque ; hracteis uti bracteolae angustae linea- 

 ribus caljce minoribus ; calycis segmentis anguste linearibus acutis 

 minute pubescentibus ; corollce pubenilse tubo cah^cem bene excedente 

 ipso sub limbo levissime constricto labio antico late obovato quam 

 posticum ovatum apice emarginatum longiore ; sfmninihus breviter 

 exsertis antherarum loc. pauUulum inferiori breviter calcarato ; ovario 

 puberulo in stylum breviter sparsimque strigillosum desinente ; cap- 

 sula puberula. 



Bokala ; Vanderyst, 4972. 



Folia tenuiter membranacea, in sicco viridia, usque 5x3 cm., sed 

 ssepe multo minoi*a ; petioli puberuli, foliorum majomm 12-20 mm. 

 long., minorum saepe modo 4 mm. Florum fasciculi ramis interdum 

 10 cm. long, etsi interdum insigniter brevioribus insidentes ; ramus 

 quisque juxta medium itaque ad apicem fasciculum gerens. Bracteae 

 bracteolaeque summum 2 mm. long. Calyx 5 mm. long., hujus 

 segmenta aliquantulum ina^qualia. Corolla3 tubus Q-5 mm. long., 

 1-5 mm. lat. ; labium anticum 4 x 3-5 mm. ; anticum 2 mm. long. 

 Antherarum loc. sup. -65 mm. long., loc. inf. (incluso calcari obtuso) 

 aigre 1 mm. long. Ovarium 1*5 mm., stylus 8 mm. long. Capsula 

 12 mm. long. Semina 4, fusco-brunnea, scrobiculata, 1 mm. diam. 



Kemarkable for its slender habit and very small flowers together 

 with the ovate leaves. 



E-UNGIA coNGOENSis Clarke. Kunzul^u ; Vajiderysf, 4497.— K. 

 GRANDIS T. And. Tua; Vanderyst, ^i/. 



2. Vaupelia a. Brand. 



This is a genus proposed (Fedde Kep. xiii. p. 82) for plants till 

 then included in the genus Irichodesma, the flowers of which they 

 greatly resemble. The reason for taking this step concerns the posi- 

 tion of the carpels upon the receptacle, as everyone knows a funda- 

 mental character in the classification of Borrayinacece. The Tricho- 

 desmas have carpels with their inner or at least their lower face 

 adnate to the conical or convex gynobase, whereas the gynobase of 

 the Yaupelias is flat, and the carpels are attached to it only by then- 

 flat base. On this account Brand suggests the removal of Vaupelia 

 from the CynoyJossece to the Lithospermece, and in this he seems 

 undoubtedly correct. He also notes the close connection between 

 Vaupelia and Cystistemon Balf. f. from Socotra. 



As thus characterized Vaupelia (ranging from Somaliland to 

 Angola) contains six species : 1. heliocliaris (T. heliocharis S. Moore) ; 

 2. luspida (T. liispidum Bak. & C. H. Wright); 3. Medusa {T. 

 Medusa Bak.) ; 4. harhata (T. harhatum Vaupel) ; 5. macranfhera 

 (T. macrantherum Giirke) ; 6. Meclioicii (T. Meclioicii Vaupel). 

 Only the first three of these are found in the Flora of Trop. Afr. 

 (iv.'2, p. 45), the others, with the exception of macrantliera, having 

 been published later: in Fl. Trop. Afr. macranfhera is wrongly 

 mero-ed in Medusa, from Avhich it is certainly distinct. The mistake 

 arose throudi Baum's no. 928 having been distributed from Berlin 



