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amplexicaulibus margine cartilagineis coriaceis utrinqiie scabridis, 

 capitulis pro rata magnis subsphocroideis co-flosculosis oligo- 

 cephalo-corymbosis vel caulem solitatim terminantibus pediin- 

 culis elongatis scabride pubescentibus distanter bracteatis fultis, 

 involiicri 4-serialis phyllis ovatis vel late ovato-oblongis (intimis 

 oblongo-lanceolatis) apice mucronatis intorioribiis gradatim 

 longioribus, corollis breviter exsertis, styli ramis papillosis 

 obtusissimis vix truncatis, acboeniis 5-angulatis inferne gradatim 

 angustatis fulvopubescentibus, pappi setis deorsnm dilatatis ibique 

 saspe dentatis apice acuminatis baud uncatis folvo-barbellatis. 



Hab. Angola, here and there in grassy meadows between the 

 Kniriri and Kuito rivers ; Gossweiler, 3670. 



Circiter bispithamea. Caulis deorsum 3-5 mm. diam., sursum 

 pauUo angustior. Folia glandulis pellucidis immersis crebro 

 praedita, plerumque 5-6 cm. long., 7-10 mm. lat. Pedunculi 

 summum circa 15 cm. long. ; horum bracteae gradatim diminutae, 

 summae 7-9 mm. long. Capitula pansa 3x4 cm. Involucri 

 phylla extima 9-13 mm. long., intermedia 17 mm., intima 24 mm. 

 long. CoroUarmii tubus 11 mm. long. ; lobi 2-5 mm. long. 

 Antherae 5 mm. long. Styli rami 3-5 mm. long. Achaenia 

 10 mm., pappi setae 16 mm. long. 



A somewhat remarkable plant, diverging in the bookless setae 

 of its pappus from Hyperico'pJiyllum as established by Steetz, a 

 genus merged by Bentham in Jaumea but proposed for re- 

 establishment by N. E. Brown (Journ. Linn. Soc, xxxv. p. 120). 

 Except for this the characters are those of Hypericophylhcvi. 

 (To be concluded.) 



WHAT IS VIOLA MONTANA L. ? 



By a. J. WiLMOTT, B.A., F.L.S. 



This much-debated problem has been forced to my notice owing 

 to the use of the name for a violet growing in Woodwalton fen in 

 Huntingdonshire. Since a preliminary investigation tended to 

 show that the name should be used not for that plant but for the 

 one usually known as Viola elatior Fries, I was led to examine the 

 matter in detail. 



The account of Viola yiiontana in Linnaeus's Species Plantarum, 

 p. 935 (1753), is as follows : 



"montana. 10. Viola caulibus erectis, folii's cordatis oblongis. 



Viola foliis ovato-lanceolatis, caule erecto, 



stipulis dentatis. Boy. Ingdb. 430. Dalib. 



paris. 269. 



Viola martia arborescens purpurea. Bauh. pin. 



199. 

 Viola erecta, flore caeruleo k albo. Moris. List. 



2, p. 475, s. 5, t. 7,f. 7. 

 Viola arborescens. Cavi. epit. 911. 

 Habitat in Alpibus Lapponiae, Austriao, Baldo. 

 7/." 



