212 THE .TOURTfAL OF HOTAXT 



longer and thicker than in the form rivularis, crowded, appressed to 

 the axis or convergent, mucronate by the thick, blunt, ver}^ shoi-t (| to 

 1 millim.) style. Seeds oval-oblong, blackish. Plant has a harsh, 

 sharp, non-nauseous taste." 



Syme's figure (Engl. Bot. ed 3, Plate 122) fairh^ well represents 

 the type of £. rivularis. Babington describes the pods as short, 

 and the pods as adpressed, with a subulate point. I have not seen 

 any Thames-side plants ; but probably the}^ are, as a rule, the type. 

 With the exception of one or two specimens brought home, the 

 Cossington gatherings, having pods up to a full inch in length, 

 evidently belong to var. longisiliquosa, as do both my herbarium- 

 sheets. 



The young pods are often arcuate-ascending, and resemble those 

 of B. arcuata (which seems to me a fairly good subspecies of B. vul- 

 garis') ; their slender, subulate points are quite as long as in vulgaris. 

 The petals (as Syme says) exceed the sepals by about a quarter; 

 their claw is long and slender, and their limb, which starts from the 

 tips of the sepals, is squarish. I only observed solitary stems in the 

 ver}^ numerous individuals seen. 



In his Novitise Fl. Suec. ed. 2, p. 207 (1828) Fries gave only one 

 station — in wet s|x)ngy places near Skarby, in Scania — and describes 

 his plant, for which he preferred the name B. i^a^'viflora, as there was 

 another *' jB. vulgaris, sfricfa''^ (apparently var. sylvestris Fr.) ; 

 but of course this cannot stand. The expression " petalis linearibus," 

 if correct, should help to distinguish B. sfricta Andrz. from B. rivu- 

 laris, in which the linear claw abruptly terminates in a short, squarish 

 limb. In Mantissa, iii. p. 77 (1842) Fries reluctantly gave up the 

 name B. parviflora, and observed : — " B. stricta est certe biennis. 

 Majo floret B. vulgari praecocior; saj'for cruclus, sed non acri- 

 acerhus"'' [i.e. as in B. vulgaris']. Having no suspicion that oui 

 plant was wrongly named, I did not apply this test. 



It is, of course, possible that the real B. stricta Andrz. may occur 

 in Britain, as it grows in Scandinavia, &c. ; but, on present evidence, 

 this seems rather unlikel3^ B. 7'ivularis appears to be a Avestern 

 species. I could see no hairs on the few unopened buds ; but they 

 were probably too far advanced. 



ALABASTRA DIVERSA.— Paet XXXI.* 



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



1. Miscellanea Africana. 



ERICACEiE. 



PMlippia kundelungensis, sp. nov. Bamulis ultimis crebro folio- 

 sis sparsim pubescentibus ; foliis mox patentibus plerumque ternatim 

 vei-ticillatis linearibus obtusis vel obtuse acutis dorso profunde sulcatis- 

 scabriusculis ; Jlorihus paucis ad apicem ramuloinim approximatis 

 pedicellis brevibus sparsim pubescentibus insidentibus ; calyce cam- 



* Types in the National Herbarium. 



