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PLANTS OF TIREE AND COLL. 



Country. R-v. T. Wakelield ! Shebele Kiver, James Thriipp ! 

 Usambara, Hoist, No. 2376 ! Duga, Ilolst, No. 3199 ! 



Tue form collected by Hildebrandt (No. 1929) on Mombassa 

 Island has broader and larger bracts, and tbe leaves are more 

 rounded at the apex. There is in the Kew Herbarium an allied 

 plant collected by Sir John Kirk in Somali-land, Tola River ; the 

 leaves are more lepidote, and tbe bracts are also broader. 



F. Bracts of the involucre 5, persistent, ovate, patent, or 

 somewhat reflexed. 



8. T. CAMPYLOsiPHON Rolfc in Jonin. Linn. Soc. xxi. 308 (1886). 

 H. vampijlosiphon Turcz. in Mosc. Bull., 1858, 193. H. Vidalianus 

 Naves in Blanco, Fl. Fid}), ed. 3, 45, t. 333 (1877-78) ; Nov. 

 Appendix, 24 (1880). H. grewiafolins Villar, I.e. 24, non Hassk. 



Hab. Philippines, Cuming, No. 1063 ! 



The following species is only known to me from description. 



9. T. Rehmanni Szyszylowicz in Rozprawy i Sprawoz z. Posieden, 

 xvii. 136 (1888). 



Hab. Natal : Ladysmith, llehmann, No. 7128. 



Doubtful and Excluded Species. 



T. ALTissiMA Spreng. Syst. iv. Cur. Post. 257 (1827). 



= Neesia altissivia Bl. 



T. BRAsiLiENSis Spr. Syst. iii. 96 (1826). 



This, according to Dr. Garcke = Luhea divaricata Mart. 



T. suBLOBATA Blauco, FL. Filip. ii. 338, t. 51 (1878). 



Probably identical with T. Lampas. 



T. TOJIENTOSA Presl, Reliq. Haeiik. ii. 136 (1835-36). Hibiscus 

 Preslii 0. Kuutze, Revisio Generum, 69. 

 Hab. Mexico occ. 



PLANTS OF TIREE AND COLL. 



By Symees M. Macvicar. 



The following notes refer to a visit of a fortnight last summer, 

 from June 24th to July 7th, to these islands, which form part of the 

 Mid Ebudes, v.-c. 103. As there does not appear to have been any 

 previous botanical visit to Tiree, some description of the island may 

 be given. It is ten miles long, and has an average breadth of about 

 two and a balf miles, one-third being under tillage, the remainder 

 in pa^ture and waste land. With the exception of three small hills 

 of about 400 ft. in height at the west end, where there are also a 

 few sea-cliffs, tbe island is very low-lying and flat, a part in the 

 centre being only about 6 ft. above sea-level, though the shore-banks 

 on both sides are 6-12 ft. high. At this place the island was in 

 danger of being cut in two, but last century a barricade of stones. 



