251 
_ This species is named in compliment to His Excellency Sir 
Hugh Charles Clifford, G.C.M.G., Governor-General of Nigeria. 
It belongs to a small group of Senecio characterised by its fleshy 
stems and discoid, umbellate capitula. The nearest allied 
species is 8. barbertonicus, Klatt, from near Bulawayo, Rhodesia, 
whilst there are very similar species at Cape Juby and in the 
Canary Islands. 
APOCYNACEAE. 
Strophanthus sarmentosus, 4.P.DC.; F.T.A. iv. i. 180. 
Jos, among granite rocks, 20 March, No. 15. ; 
Distributed from Gambia to Old Calabar and Northern’ 
Nigeria; probably also in Uganda. 
BORAGINACEAE. 
Heliotropium strigosum, Willd.; F.T.A. iv. ii. 41. Jos, 
No. 54. 
Trichodesma physaloides, A. DC.; F.T.A. iv. ii. 46. 
Maigana, flowers pale blue, No. 47. 
Widely distributed in East and South Tropical Africa; first 
recorded from Nigeria in 1916 by Mr. Lamb (No. 95), from 
aduna. 
CONVOLVULACEAE. 
Evolvulus alsinoides, Linn.; F.T.A. iv. ii. 67. 
Naraguta, 20 March, No. 31. Zaria, 25 March, small mauve- 
blue flowers, No. 40. 
Ipomoea fragilis, Choisy; F.T.A. iv. ii. 165. 
Jos, 20 March, flowers lemon yellow, No. 16. . 
Ranges across to Djurland in the Eastern Sudan and in the 
. Belgian Congo. 
SOLANACEAE. 
Schwenkia americana, Linn.; F.T.A. iv. ii. 260. 
Zaria, 18 March, No. 41. 
ScROPHULARIACEAE. 
Cycnium petunioides, Hutchinson, sp. nov. {Scrophulariaceae- 
Gerardieae]; affinis C. camporo, Engl., sed foliis sessilibus 
ovatis vel ovato-lanceolatis nervis reticulatis, calyce majore 
differt. 
Herba circiter usque ad 0-9 m. alta; caulis erectus, dense 
glanduloso-pilosus, internodiis 2-3-5 cm. longis. Folia sessilia, 
ovata vel ovato-lanceolata, apice subacuta, basi leviter rotundata, 
3-4-5 em. longa, 1-3-2-3 cm. lata, chartacea, obtuse et irregu- 
lariter serrata, utrinque scabrido-glandulosa; nervi laterales 
utrinsecus 5-6, ramosi, utrinque prominuli. Pedunculi supra- 
