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As the late Professor Pearson pointed out in the Flora of 
Tropical Africa, this species is extremely variable, a fact well 
shown in the case of the Nigerian specimens before us, ranging 
from perfectly glabrous to densely hairy plants, and there is 
rit nada: range in the shape of the leaves and involucral 
racts. 4 
SANTALACEAER. 
Thesium viride, A. W. Hill; F.T.A. vi. i. 426. 
Kaduna, 18 March, No. 52. 
Thesium viride, A. W. Hill, var. pubescens, var. nov., a typo 
ubique breviter pubescens differt. 
Maigana, March 25, A. W. Hill 49. Sokoto Province, 
12 June 1907, J. M. Dalziel 549. 
EUPHORBIACEAE, 
Euphorbia hirta, Linn.; F.T.A. vi. 1. 496. 
Zaria, 18 March, No. 45. 
Euphorbia lateriflora, Sch. & Thonn.; ¥F.T.A. vi. i. 552. 
Jos, 21 March, no. 21. 
Lepidoturus laxiflorus, Benth.; F.T.A. vi. i. 913. 
Naraguta, male and female fis., No. 33. 
LILIACEAE. 
Asparagus Pauli-Guilelmi, Solms-Laub.; F.T.A. vii. 428. 
Jos, 21 March, no. 23; flowers:sweet-scented. 
Urginea indica, Kunth; F.T.A. vii. 540. 
Naraguta, no. 35. * 
Urginea nigritana, Baker; F.T.A. vii. 542. 
Naraguta, no. 34. 
XXX.—-MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Sir Joun Harrison.—We note with pleasure in the recently 
Guiana, upon whom His Majesty has been graciously pleased 
to confer the honour of Knighthood. 
ProFessor P. van DER BisLt.—We learn with pleasure that 
Mr. P. van der Bijl, M.A., F.L.S., formerly in charge of the Natal 
Herbarium, has been appointed Professor of Phytopathology 
and Mycology at the University of Stellenbosch, Union of South 
Africa. 
J. S. J. McCatt.—We have to record with regret the death 
of Mr. J. S. J. McCall, who was appointed Director of Agriculture 
in the Tanganyika Territory on November 14th, 1920 (K.B., 
1920, p. 285). Mr. McCall was previously Director of Agriculture, 
