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anastomosantibus supra insculptis subtus prominentibus ; petioli 

 7-10 mm. longi. Pedunculi l'5-2 cm. longi. Dichasia semel 

 vel bis furcata ; pedicelli 5-8 mm. longi. Flares 10-13 mm. 

 diametro. Sepala glanduloso-ciliolata. Petala suborbicularia 

 circiter 4*5 mm. diametro. Discus 4 mm. diametro. Anther ae 

 sessiles, 1 mm. latae. Ovula 2 pro loculo, collateralia, pendula. 

 — E. theifolius var. mengtseanus, Loes. in Engl. Jahrb. vol. xxx,, 

 p. 455. 



Yunnan. Mengtze, S.E. mountain forests, 1500 m., Henry, 

 10684. 



Closely allied both to E. Griffithii and E. theifolius, and 

 evidently nearer the former. E. Griffithii and E. mengtseanus 

 have smooth, 4-winged branchlets, whereas E. theifolius has 

 tubereled, 6-8-ribbed branchlets. 



* 



VI.-YEHEB. 



« 



{Cordeauxia edulis, Hemsl.) 



History.— The existence of this interesting Somaliland plant 

 appears to have been first recorded in June, 1 >5, by the late 

 Capt. M. S. Wellby, 18th Hussars, whose death was announced in 

 the Kew Bulletin for 1901, p. 171. Wellby refers to it, as 

 Yee-ep, in several passages in his Report of a Journeu in 

 Somaliland in 1895. 



Afte y an interval of ten ? ears ' a sample of its seeds, under the 

 i ame -, l* h \ n ^ ts '" was f °rwarcled to the Imperial Institute in 

 June, 190o, by Col. E. J. E. Swayne, C.B, at that time H.M.'s 

 Commissioner, Somaliland Protectorate, with the object of having 

 r^L5 U t ? t ^ d T etermi » e *. A subsequent consignment 

 Z^f An m ? e f ial * nstitute at a later date, from the same 

 sent oil LZ™ A y ion, ^ fr ° m this later consignment was 

 brought sont fi ^ 06 ' t0 P i° fe8SOr A " H - Church, F.R.S., who 

 DficitiT tp th6S ? Seed8 t0 the Herbarium at Kew for 

 ttS hntJT th f e , material ^PPUed, identification was 



pTar^e oMained" ° f ^ »** ™° 80Wn > and two 8ma11 



sen^frLuo'lew^ "ftfe ° f ' Yebb ' nUt8 ™ 



impossible to idZ^hf^lf^ In8titute ; U was of course 

 At the same time* wa TstaZkT^ ™ ° f ? em f rminated - 



so that it was possible tn Sw that ^ ey came from Somaliland, 



possible to try to secure herbarium specimens. 



sSr SSSS **&&& 



forms-is a I*gum n„u, ulauu!l _t ° r ^ Cordeam uses haih 

 genus of the SHST" ? a P'' CTi <K"<ly unknown 



