70 FLOEA OF TEIGN BASIN, S. DEVON. 



^ in. long; standard orbicular, ^ in. broad. Ovary linear, many- 

 oviiled. Pod not seen. — Central Madagascar, Dr. Parker ! Of the 

 Tropical African species, this comes nearest to the Abyssinian V. 

 membranacea, A. Eich. 



Weinmannia lucens, n. sp. — A large tree, with branchlets 

 ancipitons and obscurely pilose towards the tip, terete and glabrous 

 lower down. Leaves long-stalked, always digitately trifoliolate ; 

 petiole 11-2 in. ; leaflets lanceolate, 2-3 in. long, rigidly coriaceous, 

 green, glabrous and lucent on both surfaces, prominently veined, 

 conspicuously crenate. Flowers in nearly sessile axillary spikes 

 about as long as the petiole, with a thick woody glabrous rachis. 

 Calyx campanulate, ^ lin. long ; segments orbicular. Petals 

 obovate-oblong, twice as long as the calyx. Stamens much longer 

 than the petals. Ovary densely pilose, with two glabrous per- 

 sistent styles ^ in. long. — Banks of the rivers in Western Betsileo, 

 Baron 97 ! A well-marked new species, nearest W, Bojeriana, 

 Tulasne. 



Weinmannia Bojeriana, Tulasne. — Forests of Central Mada- 

 gascar, Dr. Parker! Although these specimens have the leaves 

 sometimes imparip innate, with 5 leaflets, I have little doubt they 

 belong to Tulasne's species, which we possess already from Bojer 

 and Meller, in whose examples the leaves are simple or digitately 

 trifoliolate, as described by Tulasne and Engler. Dr. Meller says 

 it is a tree 20 to 40 feet high, with white flowers. Dr. Parker's 

 specimen shows the fruit, which is an oblong 2-valved tomentose 

 capsule ^ in, long, with 2 glabrous persistent styles nearly as long. 

 (To be continued.) 



A CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS A FLORA OF THE 

 TEIGN BASIN, S. DEVON. 



By Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, F.L.S. 



In two papers on S.E. Devon plants, printed in this Journal in 

 January, 1878, and January, 1880, I gave a brief account of some 

 of the less common plants that I had met with along the S.E. 

 Devon coast, and in the country lying between Haldon Hill and 

 Bovey Tracey. I had then searched more or less thoroughly a 

 belt of country across the lower part of the Teign Valley, but had 

 still left the greater part of the river basin unvisited. Since then, 

 besides exploring this belt more fully, I have been over a good 

 deal of the ground lying between Chudleigh and Chagford. Mr. 

 T. R. Archer Briggs has also kindly furnished me with some 

 valuable notes on plants seen by him (within the last two years) 

 in various parts of the district. His name will be found after such 

 stations as are here given on his authority. I am myself 

 responsible for all the rest. I am also much indebted to Mr. 

 Briggs and to Professor Babington for helping me to name some 

 of the more obscure Rubi of the district. Some fuller notes, which 



