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This is very near A. pulcliella N. E. Br., its chief pecuHarities 

 being the shorter pedicels to the dusky purple (not rose-coloured) 

 flowers, the less hairy calyx, the longer and relatively narrower 

 segments of the corolla, and the longer coronal lobes with their 

 prominent basal teeth, which reach much higher up the staminal 

 column. 



I have to thank Mr. N. E. Brown for kindly examining a flower, 

 and confirming my suspicion of its being distinct from A. imlchella. 

 The tuber is noticed in Mr. Gossweiler's note, but the only speci- 

 men to hand is without this. 



Kanahia Monroi, sp. nov. Fruticosa, glabra, ramis strictis 

 subteretibus crebro foliosis, foliis sessilibus anguste lineari-lanceo- 

 latis apice acutis pungentilDUsque crassiusculis, floribus pro rata 

 magnis, racemis brevibus longipedunculatis paucifloris pluri- 

 bracteatis, bracteis pedicellis multo brevioribus lanceolatis acutis 

 diutule persistentibus, pedicellis calyces 2-3-plo excedentibus, 

 calycis segmentis lanceolatis acutis quam corollge segmenta fere 

 duplo brevioribus, corollae satis alte partitae segmentis oblongo- 

 ovatis obtusis intus minute puberulis margine ciliatis patentibus, 

 coronge phyllis ex columna staminea paullo supra basin ortis 

 superne complicatis a latere visis subquadratis apice in dentes 

 duo fere horizontales columnam stamineam incumbentibus desi- 

 nentibus, columna staminea coronse phyllis sequialta, folliculis 

 abbreviatis ovoideis apice breviter necnon obtusissime umbonatis 

 in sicco longitrorsum rugulatis glabris. 



Hab. Ehodesia, Victoria; G. H. F. Monro, 1100. 



Caulis circa 4 mm. diam., ad nodos levissime tumidos pilis 

 brevibus rigidis albis instructus. Eolia pleraque 10 cm. long., 

 juxta medium 5-7 mm. lat., in sicco Igete viridia. Pedunculi 

 4-5 cm. long., erecti. Pedicelli 1-5-2 cm., bracteae + 5 mm. long. 

 Flores profecto pansi 2-5 cm. diam. Calycis segmenta 7 mm. 

 long. Corolla tubus 3 mm., segmenta 12 mm. long. Columnae 

 stamineae basis nuda 2 mm. long. Corollae phylla 4 mm. long., 

 horum dentes obtusse, 1-5 mm. long. Antherarum alae basi baud 

 divaricatse, 2-5 mm. long. ; appendices triangulares, obtusae, 

 stigmati convexiusculo impendentis ; glandula ovata, >-4 mm. long. ; 

 caudiculge -3 mm. long. ; pollinia oblongo-pyriformia, 1*5 mm. 

 long. Folliculi (umbone 4 mm. long, inclusa) 3 cm. long., vix 

 2 cm. lat. Semina 3-4 mm. long., coma circa 8 mm. 



A very distinct species, differing from K. laniflora Br. and 

 K. glaherrima N. E. Br. inter alia in the short follicles, and from 

 K. consimilis N. E. Br. in the flowers larger in all their parts, the 

 coronal lobes reaching the same height as the staminal column, 

 the anther-wings parallel throughout, and not divaricate at the 

 base, &c. 



SCROPHULARIACE^. 



Manulea rhodesiana, sp. nov. Herba erecta, satis elata, 

 ramosa, paucifoliosa, minute papilloso-puberula, foliis caulinis 

 (radicalibus baud visis) parvis linearibus basi levissime dilatatis 

 margine sparsim denticulatis subcoriaceis, floribus permultis secus 



