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SAXIFRAGACEAE. 
Vahlia oldentandioides, Roxb.; F.T.A. ii. 
Takwara, 3200 ae 4 May; 4—6 ins. high, minute pale pink 
flowers, No. 
DROSERACEAE. 
Drosera indica, Linn.; F.T.A. ii. 402. 
Naraguta, 8 Aug.; plants 1-2 _ is with small pink 
flowers, leaves fly-catching, No. 
CoMBRETACEAE. 
Combretum herbaceum, Don; F.T.A. ii. 433; Engl. Monogr. 
Air. Combret. 67; Hutch. in Kew Bull. 1921, 248. 
Naraguta, 1-2 ft. high, flowers orange, fruits bright red, 
ed, No. 9. 
Distrib—Savannah region from Sierra Leone to the Eastern 
Chari. 
yobs secye 
Evgenia owariensis, Beauy.; F.T.A 438; Holland, 320. 
Naraguta, shrub 12 ft. high, Goan white, No. 82. 
MELASTOMACEAE. 
Osbeckia postpiuvialis, Gilg, Monogr. Afr. Melastomac. 6. 
Ropp, 4600 ft., 19 July; 12 ins. high, flowers mauve, 
No. 447. 
Known only from Northern Nigeria and Djurland in the Eastern 
Sudan, the latter being the type locality. 
Dissotis Irvingiana, Hook.; F.T.A. ii. 453; Gilg, Monogr. Afr. 
Melastomac. 20; Holland, 321. 
— 23 June; 2 ft. 6 ins. high, whole Pgs closely 
ered with red hairs, flowers purple, No. 
Distrib. Geld Coast to Northern Nigeria. 
Dissotis cola, Hutchinson, sp. nov.; affinis D, Perkins- 
wae, Gilg, bad: ex F deeokioks caule terete, foliis basi distincte 
cordatis supra dense setuloso-tomentosis, floribus paucis speciosis 
ovario‘apice pilis setosis concretis coronata differt. (See p. 372.) 
Herba circiter 4-5 dm. alta, basi lignosa; caulis dense 
foliatus, teres, breviter tomentosns, basin versus circiter 6 mm. 
diametro, internodiis 2-2-5 cm. longis. Folia ovata, subacuta, 
basi cordata, 4-8 cm. longa, 2-4 cm. lata, coriacea, integra, 
supra dense ‘setuloso- tomentosa, infra molliter tomentella, basi 
circiter 9-nervia, nervis ascendentibus subparallelis supra leviter 
impressis, infra prominentibus, nervis tertiariis transversis 
crebris prominulis; petioli 1 cm. longi, teretes, tomentosi. 
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