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1 ! Petherick ! Speke & Grant, 669 ! Lake Eudolf : Wellby ! 

 Uganda : Waki E,, 2800 ft., Bagshatce, 834 ! Entebbe, Fyffe, 130 ! 

 at 4000 ft., Dawe, 630 ! Hbb. Mus. Brit., Kew. 



A small erect shrub with pubescent branchlets ; it is frequently 

 cultivated. Eeadily recognized by the almost filamentous fruiting 

 calyx-lobes. 



17. M. perlaxa Wernham, sp. nov. Frutex scandens ramulis 

 sparsim pilis patentibus indutis ; foliis ca. 16 cm. x 8-5 cm. ellip- 

 ticis utrinque angustatis, supra glabrescentibus subtus praecipue 

 in venis puberulis, venis secundariis subtus prominulis utrinque 

 ca. 10-12, petiolo sparsissime piloso ad 4 cm. longo, stipidis 

 amplis glabratis ad 1 cm. x 9 mm. obtusis ; inflorescentia tri- 

 chotoma cymulis paucifloris pedunculis elongatis ad 7 cm. ; 

 calycis lobis linearibus acutis ad ca. 3 mm. longis extus in vena 

 mediana strigillosis, uno in laminam breviter petiolatam sub- 

 orbicularem utrinque nisi dorso in venis minute strigillosis glabram 

 nonnunquam dilatato ; corolla tubo pro genere brevi 1-5-1-7 cm. 

 longo extus insuper sparse strigilloso basin versus glabrato, lobis 

 late triangularibus suberectis brevissimis ; ovario peranguste in- 

 fundibulari in pedicellum brevissimum angustato. 



Zanzibar : Kirk ! Hb. Kew. 



Eemarkable for the long leaf-stalks, the stipules, and lax 

 straggling few-flowered inflorescences ! A plant collected in the 

 Nyika country by the Eev. T. Wakefield (Hb. Kew), bearing fruits 

 but no flowers, is probably referable to the same species. The 

 fruits are glabrous and oblong, 2*3 cm. long and 7 mm. in the 

 widest part. 



18. M. stenocarpa Hiern in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 68 (1877). 

 Monbuttu-land : near Munsa, Schweinfurth, 3362 ! Hb. Kew. 

 A small shrub, notable for its oblong fruit, as much as f in. long. 



19. M. Monteiroi Wernham, sp. nov. Frutex sparse ramosus. 

 ramulis rectis virgatis, novellis sparse et minute puberulis mox 

 glabrescentibus ; foliis membranaceis pro genere inter minima 

 5-6 cm. x 1-5-2-8 cm., utrinque angustatis obtusiusculis, supra 

 sparsissime hirtellis subtus nisi in venis puberulis glabris, venis 

 secundariis utrinque 4-5 reticulo tertiario manifesto, petiolo tenero 

 brevi, stipidis a vagina brevissima breviter 2-apiculatis ; inflore- 

 scentiis trichotomis ramulis puberulis, bracteis brevibus sub- 

 setaceis, cymulis 6-8-floris ; calycis lobis sparse hirtellis ad 2-5- 

 3 cm. longis angustis subsetaceis, uno nonnunquam in laminam 

 ellipticam candidam utrinque glaberrimam petiolo vix 2 cm. dila- 

 tato ; corolla extus sparse puberula gracili insuper parum ampliata 

 ad 2-2-5 cm. longa, limbo 8-9 mm. diam. lobis apiculato-acutis ; 

 fructu breviter oblongo-ellipsoideo ca. 7 mm. x 4-5 mm. glabro 

 loculicide ab apice dehiscente. 



Angola : Gossiveiler, 563 ! In rocky thickets, Anha-Benguella, 

 Gossweiler, 4273 ! Boma, Monteiro ! Hbb. Mus. Brit., Kew. 



Eemarkable for the small thin leaves and dehiscent fruit ; 

 the characters of the latter distinguish this species from S. steno- 

 carpa, the nearest ally. 



(To be concluded.) 



