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pubescentia, nervis lateralibus utrinsecus circiter 12, a costa sub 
angulo recto abeuntes; petioli 4-5 mm. longi, pubescentes. 
Flores infra folia dense aggregati, pedicellis ex axillis foliorum 
mm. longa, appendicibus lateralibus 2 paullo_brevioribus. 
Stamina petalis isomera, opposita; filamenta ultra 2 mm. longa, 
glabro. 
Trorican Arrica. Southern Rhodesia: without definite 
locality or collector, Herb. Dept. of Agric. S. Rhodesia 2639. 
1656. Holmskioldia speciosa, Hutchinson et Corbishley 
[ Verbenaceae-Viticeae]; affinis H. tettensi, Vatke, sed foliis late 
ovatis crasse crenatis infra conspicue glandulosis calyce fructifero 
distincte lobato differt. 
amult lignosi, teretes, breviter et molliter pubescentes, 
lenticellis pallidis notati, internodiis circiter 2 cm. longis. Folia 
late ovata, apice triangularia, basi late cuneata, 2°5-4 cm. longa, 
ata, crasse crenata, crenis — (circiter 3) rotundatis, 
petioli 7 mm. longi, dense pubescentes. Flores in cymas axillares 
paucifioras usque ad 4 em. longas dispositi; pedunculi graciles, 
extra glandulosa et molliter pubescens; tubus ad 1°5 em. longus, 
lobis circiter 0°6-1 cm. longis laxe pubescentibus. Stamina 
onge exserta, circiter 2°5 cm. longa, filamentis glabris, antheris 
mm. longis. Ovarium superne pallide tomentosum; stylus 
stamina paullo excedens, gracilis, glaber. Fructus truncatus, 
4-corniculatus, calyce accrescente inclusus. 
Sourn Arrica. Transvaal: Komati Poort, 29 Nov. 1917, 7. B. 
Pole-Evans 16879. 
Holmskioldia is a small genus of Verbenaceae with a very 
curious distribution. In the foothills of the Himalaya (3000- 
5000 ft.) and in the Khasia Hills of India it is represented by one 
species H. sanguinea, Retz; in the basin of the lower Zambesi 
and Shiré Rivers of East Africa, H. tettensis, Vatke, H. spines- 
cens, Vatke, H. mucronata, Va i 
, h : 
aal. The genus is separated from Clerondendron and Viter 
