PSEUDOMUSS^NDA 301 



dense puberulus insuper subsericeus, limbus 12 mm. in diam. 

 Bacca ellipsoidea pnberiila 1*8 cm. x 1-1 cm. calycis lobis deciduis 

 nee coronata. 



Angola : Kaconda, along the rivulet Cababa, February 27th, 

 1907, Gosstveiler 4284 ! 



A rare woody climber, attaining a height of 25 ft. ; leaves soft 

 and glossy above ; petaloid calyx-lobes yellowish-white ; corolla- 

 tube greenish. Allied to M. Afzelii, but the corolla of our species 

 is much more slender, and longer "; also to M. Iserticma, but the 

 last-named has much shorter and broader, obtuse calyx-lobes. 



JOHN FLEMING, M.D. (1747-1829). 

 By James Britten, F.L.S. 



In the course of revising our Biographical Index of British 

 and Irish Botanists, the entry for Dr. John Fleming arrested our 

 attention. The information regarding him given in our first 

 edition is practically based entirely on Dr. Daydon Jackson's 

 account in the Dictionary of National Biography (xix, 279 1, but a 

 reference to the obituary notice in the Gentleman's Magazine 

 (Ixxxv, i, 568) from which that account is largely taken, contains 

 no mention of Fleming's botanical attainments. Further investi- 

 gation has shown that under the heading " John Fleming, botanist," 

 two widely different persons are combined — one having a claim to 

 that title, the other (who in Gent. Mag. is only designated " J.") 

 a scholar who never published any work, but contributed largely 

 on classical subjects to journals published in London. In order 

 that the two men may be separated, I reprint the notice from 

 D.N.B., placing in italics the portion which relates to the 

 scholar : — 



" Fleming, John (d. 1815), botanist, loas educated at Douai, took 

 his degree of M.D. at Edinburgh, and became president of the 

 Bengal Medical Service. He is stated to have heeii a good classic, 

 and contributed to several journals, but the only memoir of his 

 which can be cited is his ' Catalogue of Indian Medicinal Plants 

 and Drugs ' in the eleventh volume of ' Asiatick Eesearches,' which 

 was reprinted with additions, Calcutta, 1810, 8vo, and translated 

 into Dutch and German. He died of a paralytic stroke iji London, 

 10 May, 1815. Dr. Eoxburgh dedicated the genus Fle^ningia to 

 him, [and his name is further commemorated by the genus of 

 fossil plants, Fleniingites] ." 



" [Gent. Mag. vol. Ixxxv pit. i, p. 568; Eoxburgh's Corom. 

 PI. iii, 44] ." 



The sentence placed in brackets relates to yet a third person — 

 JohnlFleming, D.D., of Edinburgh (1785-1857), in whose honour 

 Mr. Cairuthers, who had studied under him, named Fleniingites. 



For this composite paragraph the following account of John 

 Flenaing, M.D., condensed from Lieut. -Col. D. G. Crawford's 



