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of singular beauty, and the Vigna is also attractive with its 
large lavender-violet flowers which are very sweet-scented. 
BIXACEAE. 
Cochlospermum tinctorium, Rich.; Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 113. 
Naraguta, 21 March, No. 24; Kaduna, 18 March, No. 50. 
A common low growing savannah plant of Upper Guinea, 
defoliate at flowering time, and ranging from the north bank 
of the Gambia to the hinterland of Lagos and Northern Nigeria. 
Common in Nigeria, the large orange-yellow flowers studding 
the dry: ground, being very conspicuous and beautiful; roots 
yield yellow dye used for dyeing thread yellow in Hausa country. 
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Hausa ‘“ Turri. 
POLYGALACEAE. 
Securidaca longipedunculata, Fres. ; F.T.A. i. 134. 
Jos, 21 March, No. 1, also seen at Maigana and Zaria; shrub 
6-10 ft. 
One of the commonest and most widely-spread African shrubs, 
ranging over the whole of Tropical Africa, and well adapted by 
its samaroid fruits for distribution by the wind. It extends 
southwards to Delagoa Bay, the northern Transvaal and Ambo- 
land, 8S.W. Africa. A very beautiful shrub with sweet scented 
flowers which should be cultivated in gardens in N. Nigeria. 
MALVACEAE. 
Cienfuegosia heteroclada, Sprague in Kew Bull. 1907, 48. 
Naraguta, 22 March, on ground recently burnt, No. 25. 
A rare plant only found in Northern Nigeria, where it appears 
in the bush after burning. This is the second gathering of the 
species, which was discovered at Kontagora by Dr. J. M. Dalziel 
in 1905. 
OCHNACEAE. 
- Ochna Hillii, Hutchinson; sp. nov. [Ochnaceae-Ochneae] ; 
affinis O. leptocladae, Oliv., sed foliis sub anthesi partim evolutis, 
floribus majoribus, antheris longioribus differt. 
Frutex usque ad 3 m. altus, sub anthesi fere efoliatus, laxe 
ramosus; caules erecti, basin versus circiter 5 mm. crassi, ramis 
lateralibus multifloris usque ad 10 cm. longis cinereis, labris. 
Folia matura obovato-oblanceolata vel oblanceolata, basi atten- 
uata, apice obtusa vel fere rotundata, 9-12 cm. longa, 24 cm. 
lata, firme chartacea, margine crenato-serrulata, cartilaginea, 
utrinque tenuiter reticulata, glabra; costa media utrinque 
prominens; nervi laterales utrinsecus 12-14, basales ascendentes, 
superiores arcuati et ramosi, utrinque straminei et prominentes ; 
- petioli 3-4 mm. longi, marginibus acutis cartilagineis; stip 
mox deciduae, oblongo-lineares, apice rotundatae, 0°7-1 cm. 
