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Folia 15-20x5-7 cm., in sicco brunnescentia ; petioli 2-3*5 cm. 

 long., basi necnon sub limbo incrassati. Pedicelli circa 3 mm. long. 

 Sepala 2-3 mm., filamenta 2-3 mm., antberse ovatse 1 mm. long. 

 Discus diametro 1 mm. paullo excedens. 



The six sepals are somewhat aberrant from the -genus, also the 

 stamens placed sometimes between rugse of the disk, a character, 

 although shared by some species of the genus, pointing to Lingeh- 

 lieimia, but the habit of that is different. The plant does not seem 

 closel)^ allied with an)^ known species. 



Drypetes GossweiJeri, sp. nov. Arbor erecta trunco sat gracili 

 pra3dita ; ramis robustis alicpianto tortuosis cortice cinereo rimoso 

 lenticellifero circumdatis ; ramidis fusco-corticatis foliosis glabris ; 

 foliis petiolatis ovato-oblongis obtusis brevissimeve cuspidato-atten- 

 uatis basi late rotundatis papyraceis margine undulatis glabris supra 

 nitidulis subtus opacis costis lateralibus utrinque 6-8 aperte arcuatis 

 ut reticulum utrobique bene eminentibus ; fascicidis pauci- vel pluri- 

 floris plerumque ramulis defoliatis insidentibus ; ^je<^/?C(9///s validis 

 quam flores longioribus minute fulvo-velutinis ; sepalis florum cS 

 pro rata magnorum 5 oblongo-ovatis apice rotundatis pag. utraque 

 prsesertim vero dorso fulvo-velutinis ; staminihns fere 40 inter disci 

 iobulos S3epe insertis filaraentis quam antherse oblongse obtusse paul- 

 lulum longioribus ; rudimento 5 subnuUo. 



Portuguese Congo, Ma3aTmbe, rare in forests at Buco Zau ; 

 Gossweiler, 6S67. 



Truncus sec. cl. inventorem 30 m. alt. Folia pleraque 14-18 X 

 6-8 cm. (nonnunquam modo 10 X 5 cm.) petiolo 1-1*5 cm. long, 

 exempto, supra in sicco brunnescentia. Stipulae baud visse. Pedicelli 

 usque 3*5 cm. long., sed sjepe breviores, sub flore incrassati. Flores 

 odorem pungentem ingratum sinrantes. Sepala alba (dorso dilute 

 viridia), 13 X 11 mm. Filamenta 5 mm., antherse 4 mm. long. Discus 

 7 mm. diam. Flores 5 ignoti. 



Allied to D. Staudtii Hutchins,, but somewhat different in the 

 shape of the undulate (not serrate) leaves and with larger flowers on 

 longer pedicels, velvety (not glabrous) sepals, and nearly 40 (instead 

 of about 15) stamens. 



PLANTAGO CYNOPS L. IN KENT. 



By Heney N. Eidley, M.A., F.R.S. 



Plantago Gynops L. is a low shrubb}^ plant forming a good-sized 

 tuft or cushion. The stems are woody and for about 6 inches bare of 

 leaves. The leaves are narrow and semiterete, linear acute, and 

 grooved above, of a grey-green, and like most of the plant hairy. 

 From the axils spring hairy peduncles little longer than the leaves, 

 bearing at the top globose heads of flowers. To each head is a pair 

 of ovate rounded green cuspidate bracts tinted with purple ; the 

 sepals are short and enclose the corolla tube, which is rather long for 

 a Plantain ; the wide spreading lobes are lanceolate and acute, trans- 

 lucent and whitish. The whitish filaments are very long and hairy, 

 and the anthers pale ^^ellow ; the slender and long persistent style, 

 at first pale, becomes brown ; the capsule is conic with oblong lanceo- 



