2-44 THE .rOLM^XAL OF BOl'ANY' 



beyond the horizon of hand-coloured copper-plates, as in Curtis and 

 Sowerby of a hundred years ago, is to come back to cheap process 

 line-blocks, these should be entrusted to those who not only have 

 received an adequate art-training of their generation, and really know 

 something of floral botany, but who have an instinctive appreciation 

 of the bewildering manifestations of plant-life, and can utilize an 

 artistic training without falling into absurd mannerisms or slip-shod 

 ways. It is a pity that copies of Brunfels and Fuchs are not more 

 readily available for the study of those whose ideas of Herbals are 

 foundied on the poor borrowed illustrations of Grerard and Parkinson. 



ALABASTRA DIVERSA.— Part XXXI.* 



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



1. Miscellanea Africana. 



(Concluded from p. 219.) 



Folia inferiora ±5 X 1"2 cm., in sicco saturate grisea ; superiora 

 pleraque 2-5-3 cm. X 4-G mm. Spicse usque ad 1-2 x 1*5 cm. Flores 

 albi. Bractea? 4x3-3-5 mm.; bracteolie 3 mm. long. Calyx 

 3-5 mm. long,, I'o mm. lat. ; hujus lobi 1 mm. long. Corollse tubus 

 6x1 mm. ; lobi 2-5 mm. long. Filamenta longiora circa 5 mm. ; 

 antherse 1 mm. long. Ovarium ohlongo-ovoideum, 1 mm. long. ; 

 stylus clavellatus, 1*5 mm. long. 



This also is near JB. andougensis Hiern ; its tall habit, long, very 

 scabrous 5-nerved lower leaves and comparatively small and narrow 

 upper ones, non-corymbose intiorescence, smaller bracts and bracteoles, 

 shorter calyx not ciliate on the ribs and corolla with tube distinctly 

 longer than the calyx are the chief distinctive marks. 



To be referred here is Gossweiler No. 1789 found along the 

 wagon-road from Rio Kuanuolo to Kakonda in thickets missed by the 

 bush-fires. It is noted as having pale violet-purple flowers. 



Buchnera Kassneri, sp. no v. Ccnile e radice sparsim fibroso 



stricto subsimplice fere a basi folioso scabrido ; foliis perpaucis 



(summis alternis) linearibus acutis uninervibus utrinque margineque 



scabridis ; spiels angustis folia longe excedentibus basi breviter in- 



terruptis aliter continuis ; bracteis lineari-lanceolatis acutis margine 



dorsoque scabridis ; hrocfeolis linearibus acutis bracteas semia^quan- 



tibus; calyce uno latere fisso prominenter 7-nervi puberulo lobis 



4-5 inter sese intequalibus linearibus acutis ciliatis ; coroUcB tubo 



calycem breviter superante extus glabro lobis linearibus obtusis ; 



ilamentis lon^ioribus barbellatis, antheris apiculatis. 



Belgian Congo, Kundelungu ; Kassner, 2788. 



Planta fere bispithamea. Folia 3-4x1-5-2 cm. Spicae circa 



10 cm. long. Bractese circa 10 mm., bracteolie circa 5 mm. long. 



Calyx 11-5 mm. long., lobi 1-2-5 mm. long. Corollae tubus 12-5 mm. 



long., 1-2 mm. lat., ipso sub limbo contractus ; lobi 3-4 mm. long. 



* Types in the National Herbarium. 



