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NEW AFRICAN PLANTS. 



leaflets. Leaflets membranous, shortly petiolulate, glabrous on 

 both surfaces, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; lateral leaflets slightly 

 unequal-sided, base rounded, apex apiculate, margin entire, some- 

 what sinuate, main vein slightly prominent below, lateral veins 

 almost at right angles to maui vem, impressed below; terminal 

 leaflet nearly 2 in. long, f in. broad at broadest part, which is 

 about one-third from the base. Flowers paniculately arranged. 

 Peduncle and pedicels pubescent. Bracts strap-shaped, pubescent, 

 those on the peduncle about IJ lines long; bracteoles sborter, 

 somewhat spathulate. Sepals membranous, nnbricate, elliptical or 

 ovate-oblong, about ^ in. long. Petals free, 4-5 lines long, narrow, 

 pubescent, margin somewhat irregular, in the dried state of a 

 yellow colour. Stamens 5, about as long as the petals ; filaments 

 glabrous. Staminodia opposite to the sepals, filiform, much shorter 

 than the fertile stamens, about 1;^ lines long. Ovary hirsute, 

 shortly stalked ; style smooth, twice as long as the ovary. Ovules 

 anatropous. 



Hab. On the north-eastern corner of Lake Kudolf, in flat open 

 country, flowering in August, Vr. Donaldson Smith, No. 398, 



A very curious and interesting plant. It suggests technically 

 Fittosporea, but the anther-stameus are opposite the petals, and the 

 leaves pinnately compound ; also there is affinity with Pasdjiorea. 

 If the accompanying figure be compared with that oi Deidamia (data 

 figured by Du Petit Thouars {Hist. Yeg. Isles Austr. Afr. t, 20), 

 certain points of resemblance will be at once noted. The shortly 

 stipitate ovary with parietal placentation and hypogynous stamens, 

 and the imparipinnate leaves. Tlie latter diti'ers, however, in its 

 3-4-parted style and in the stamens being aduate to the gynophore, 

 and in the reduced corona. In the Angolan genus AtUeranthera 

 we have ten stamens, five of which are sterile, and no corona ; but 

 the flowers are unisexual (see Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii, 040), and the 

 leaves simple. Atheranthera Welwitschii Masters, I. c. is identical 

 with Gerrardanthus Trimeni Cogn, I have pleasure in dedicating 

 this interesting novelty to the discoverer, l)r. Donaldson Smith ; 

 also in thanking Prof. D. Oliver for much assistance in connection 

 with it. Mr. E. M. Holmes has suggested an affinity with Moringa, 

 with which it has certainly some resemblance, it agrees in the 

 5 stamens alternating with 5 staminodia, and in the stipitate ovary 

 with parietal placentation ; but Lkmaldsonia difl'ers from Moringa 

 by the flowers being regular and having a decided disk, by the 

 calyx not forming a cup at the base, and by the leaves being only 

 simply, not compoundly, imparipinnate. 



Chionothrix latifolia Eendle, sp. n. Fruticosus ramis juni- 

 oribus velut foliis pedicellisque stellato-pubescentibus ; foliis ovatis 

 interdum paene ovalibus, obtusis integris, breviter petiolatis ; in- 

 florescentia C. somalensis Hk. fil, ; perianthii segmentis subtequalibus 

 oblongo-ligulatis, margine membranaceis apice subcucullatis, dorso 

 dense et longe barbato-villosis ; staminibus generis ; ovario sub- 

 globoso. 



Hab. Shebeli, Dr. Donaldson Smith, Aug, 23rd, 1894. 



The leaves, which reach 1^ in. m length and 1 in. in breadth, 



