NEW SPECIES OF URERA FROM TROPICAL AFRICA 371 



pair of rather weak upper nerves may be absent ; petiole 1-2- 

 2 cm. long. Stipules barely 4 mm. long. Male inflorescence 

 5-7-5 cm. long ; flowers in short sessile clusters on the branches 

 of the first or higher order; pedicels about 1 mm. long; bud 

 barely 2 mm. in diameter. 



A distinct species, characterised by the rather small entire 

 conspicuously 3-nerved leaves, and the feeble and varying 

 development of an upper pair of lateral nerves. 



SHORT NOTE. 



Isle of Wight Plants. — Malva borealis, Wallm. This plant, 

 which my friend Mr. J. W. Long found growing in an arable field 

 just outside Newport, has not been hitherto recorded for the Isle 

 of Wight, and in only two localities in Hampshire (under the 

 name of M. pusilla, Sm., in Townsend's Flora of Hampshire). It 

 is in great abundance, and with ripe fruit, in the field, in which 

 there was this year a crop of oats. The field adjoins a flour mill. 

 A plant of Dipsacus fullonum, L., was observed in the same field. 

 — Juncus hufonius, y&r. fasciciclat^cs, Bertol. St. Boniface Down, 

 near Ventnor, June 22nd, 1872. The specimens are all under 

 2 inches in height, and have the fruits two or three in fascicles. 

 A diminutive form of J. bufoiiius, but not with fruits in fascicles, 

 is abundant on the Downs at Freshwater. Another form of 

 J. biifonius which agrees well with specimens distributed by 

 Billot, under the name of /. zanarius, Perr. et Song., having fruits 

 in fascicles, but taller than my specimens of fasciculatus, I found 

 at King's Quay, near Osborne. These also agree with Dr. Boswell 

 Syme's specimens of var. fasciculatus sent by him from the shores 

 of Loch Leven, Kinross. — Valerianella eriocaipa, Desf. Through 

 the kindness of its owner, Mr. Jeffery, I have had the opportunity 

 of examining the interleaved copy of Bromfield's Flora Vectensis, 

 which belonged to the late Mr. A. G. More. Under Fedia den- 

 tata, Vahl (p. 244) he made the following note : "In the allotments 

 Shanklin a var. with the cup of the calyx larger than usual, 

 unequally four-toothed, and a very few short hairs, principally on 

 the calyx, i. e. three teeth in front, and a large one, itself triden- 

 tate, behind. The hairs are very few and short, and other speci- 

 mens growing at same place do not show them at all, though 

 otherwise quite similar and with equally large calyx. No veins 

 on the calyx of either." This description, and a drawing of the 

 fruit which Mr. More appended, leave little doubt that the plants 

 were V. eriocarpa, Desf. The only specimens of V. mixta, Dufr. 

 which I have are those in Billot's exsiccata, from Strasbourg (not 

 very good ones) ; if they are to be accepted as authentic, they 

 partake much more of the character of V. dentata, Koch. 



Frederic Stratton. 



