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the Somalis, who had iDeuetrated into the neighbouring Gala 

 provinces and had hiid them waste. Sick with fever, and impeded 

 by scorbutic ulcers in the legs, Hildebrandt returned, in December, 

 1875, to Mombassa. Since he did not recover here he went on to 

 Zanzibar, where he — as already mentioned — was carefully nursed 

 on board H.M.S. ' London.' Completely recovered, he set out again 

 from Zanzibar, where he engaged fresh followers, to Mombassa. 

 Here he made an excursion to Maweni, in Duruma, in order to 

 exercise his followers, and on the 10th January, 1877, set out from 

 Mombassa into the interior to reach Kenia. He traversed in 

 succession the provinces of Taita, Ukamba, and Kitui, stopping 

 now and then to collect natural history specimens, and to make 

 different scientific observations. Through the fear his people had 

 of the Wakwafi on the one hand and the Wakamba (the inhabitants 

 of Kitui) on the other, as also through the hostile behaviour of the 

 latter towards himself, Hildebrandt was compelled to return with a 

 heavy heart when only three days' journey from Kenia, the goal of 

 his journey. In August, 1877, he arrived again at Mombassa, 

 paid off his people, and, compelled by shattered health, returned 

 by Zanzibar to Europe. Among the highly interesting 

 plants collected on this joiu'ney may be mentioned : — Galactia 

 argenteifulia, S. Moore, Dalbergia hrevicaudata, Vatke, Ormocarpum 

 Kirkii, S. Moore, Pithecolohimn zcmzibaricum, S. Moore, Ammannia 

 Hildehrandtii, Koehne, ined., Tristillateia africana, S. Moore, 

 Cladostemon jiaradoxus^ A. Br. & Vatke, Uvaria Asterias, S. Moore, 

 Blepharis j^ratensis, S. Moore, Notonia Hildehrandtii, Vatke, 

 Yernonia cBimdans, Vatke, Aspilia wedeliaformis, Vatke, Hydrosme 

 maxima, Engler, Ouvirandra Hildehrandtii, Hort. Berol.,* Selagi- 

 nella eublepharis, A. Br. 



On the highly remarkable new Capparideous genus, Cladostemon 

 paradoxus, and also on several other new plants collected by Hilde- 

 brandt, an exhaustive paper by A. Braun will be found in the 

 ' Monatsberichten der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften,' 

 (1876, pp. 855-867 ; comp. also ' Sitzungsber. der Naturf. Freunde 

 zu Berlin,' 1876, pp. 6-8, pp. 113-123, and Just, ' Botan. 

 Jahresber.' iv., 1876, p. 558, No. 149, and p. 1122, No. 75). 

 Ouvirandra Hildehrandtii, Hort. Berol., is a readily flowering plant 

 in the Berlin Botanic Garden, which the traveller found in Kitui 

 in shallow pools filled only during the rainy season. During the 

 dry season only the coarse rhizome of the Ouvirandra is found ; in 

 the rainy season it develop) s quickly a large number of leaves and 

 numerous long- stalked violet flowers, which after flowering 

 sink down into the water. 



Hildebrandt has given a review of his second journey in a 

 lecture to the Berlin Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde (* Verhandl.,' Bd. 

 iv., pp. 284-295). 



* This name was given by Ascherson, and the plant was described by 

 Eichler at the October meeting of the • Gartenbauverein ' and November meeting 

 of the ' Gcsells. Naturf. Fnunde ' (see ' Sitzungsber.', 19 Nov., 1878, p. 193). It 

 is identical with Aponogeton suhcorjugahis, Schum. [A. leptostachyus, E. M.) 

 (See Trimen in ' Gard. Chrou.' 1879, p. 149). [Ed. Journ. Bot.] 



