286 
The graph is confined advisedly to the returns given in the above 
mentioned statement. 
he foreign countries include Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, 
France, Austrian Territories, U.S. America, San Salvador, 
Colombia, Philippines, and Ecuador, involving probably the produce 
of three species of Indigofera, viz., Anil, arrecta, and tinctoria, 
Egypt as a source of Indigo is mentioned once in the returns 
covered by the chart—17 cwts., value £122 in 1897, and also the 
French Possessions in India—85 cwts,, value £1090. 
XLII.—SPATALLOPSIS, A NEW GENUS OF 
PROTEACEAE, 
Hi, 2. PHILLIPS. 
Knight in his description of the in hi 
: genus Spataila, in his Proteeae 
(PP. ae included three plants S. thor eifhira: Knight, S. ericaefolia, 
night, and 8. caudaeflora, Knight, which differ from his other 
E Bee in the genus in having conical stigmas (described as clavate). 
a, rown Folin Linn. Soc. x. 150) also described three plants under 
bear Oe patalla, namely, 8. propinqua, R.Br., S. caudata, R.Br., 
casi yt Mig R.Br. (= S. caudaeflora, Knight), regarding at the 
ce i ait thyrsifiora, Knight, as a Sorocephalus, and describ- 
: “3 sie ne oa R.Br. lc. 140. Later authors, as Roemer and 
(in DC. Prodr. Xiv., pp. 303-310), whose a is the last 
Brown, ignoring Knight. When worki 
; : ng through the genus Spatalla 
I found that all the above-mentioned ‘pecs oe only differed from 
: * — pra in having a conical and not a flat obovate stigma 
o that the calyx was regular, whereas in Spatalla the inner 
