160 THE JOURIfAL OF BOTAJHT 



Distingaished by the small rather thick leaves which when dried 

 turn brown or black, the terminal leaflet is rather longly petiolulate. 

 The lax-flowered simple thyrse is 5-9 cm. long;,with the pedicellate 

 flowers in few flowered cymules. 



12. A. DECIPIENS Radlk. in Engler & Prantl. iii. 5, 313 (1895). 

 Sclimidelia decipiens Presl. Bot. Bemerk. 41 (1844). Mhus decipiens 

 E. Mey. in Drege Zwei Pfl. Docum. 216 (1844). 



Cape : Many collectors. 



Rudatis 590 so named is A. melanocarpus Radlk. 



13. A. MACROBOTETS Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 288 (1897). 

 Lake Region : Bukoba, Stuhlmann etc. Hb. Berol. Congo 



Region : Sapin ! Hb. Brux. 



14. A. DiDYMADENius Radlk. in Sitz. Bayer. Akad. 1. c. 219 

 (1909). 



East Africa : A. Whyte. 



(To be continued.) 



ALABASTRA DIVERSA.— Part XXX. 



By Spencer Le M. Moore, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



Plants Rogersianje. — IV. 



[The following description of the new PJiyllantlius referred to on 

 p. 86 should have appeared in its proper sequence on p. 91, but the 

 specimen had been mislaid. — S. M,] 



Phyllantlms Rog^ersii Hutchinson, sp. nov. Verisimiliter suffrutex 

 dioicus glaber ; ramulis fasciculatis gracilibus crebro foliosis ; foliis 

 parvis brevipetiolatis ovato-oblongis apice obtusis necnon mucronulatis 

 basi rotundatis nonnunquam levissime cordatis firme membranaceis ; 

 fiorihus S gracile pedicellatis sepalis 5 suborbicularibus glandulis 

 totidem subreniformibus staminibus 5 filamentis aegre omnino solutis 

 antheris longitrorsum dehiscentibus ; JJorihus $ axillaribus quam cS 

 validius pedicellatis sepalis quam ea maris majoribus suborbicularibus 

 glandulis in discum annularem conflatis ovario depresse subgloboso 

 stylis 3 a basi divergentibus ultra medium bicruris ; capsula depresse 

 globosa glabra. 



Transvaal, Pietersburg Div., Haenertsburg ; Rogers, 19023. 



Folia 4-5 x 2'5-3 mm., supra in sicco saturate subtus dilute 

 viridia ; costae laterales utrinque 3-4, tenerse ; petioli 1 mm. long. 

 Stipulse exiguae, coloratae, circa 1 mm. long. Pedicelli S 3 mm. 

 long. Flores S diam. 2 mm. leviter excedentes ; sepala 1x1 mm. ; 

 glandulse -3 mm. lat. ; fllamenta fere 1 mm. long ; antherae "2 mm. 

 long. Pedicelli $ 4 mm. long. Flores $ 3 mm. diam. ; sepala 

 1"75 X 1*75 mm., rubra vel rubro-lineata ; ovarium 1'5 mm. diam. ; 

 styli in toto vix 1 mm. long. Capsula trigona, 3 mm. diam. 



Near P. capillaris Schum. & Thonn., but without any pubescence 

 and with smaller leaves not narrowed at the base and flowers on 

 shorter pedicels among other features. 



