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Hibiscus platycalyx, Mast. 
Kwebe Hills 3,400 ft., Lugard, 147, Mrs. Lugard, 95. 
A shrub 3-7 ft. high ; the only shrubby /ibiscus of the locality ; 
flowers yellow, with a dark chocolate-red centre. 
Hibiscus dongolensis, Del. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 113. 
Plant 25 ft. high; flowers yellow, with a dull claret-coloured 
centre. 
Hibiscus rhabdospermus, Garcke. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 215. 
An erect annual growing to 3 ft high ; flowers pale yellow, with 
a claret-coloured centre. 
Hibiscus Schinzii, Giirke. 
A form with rather stouter stems and larger and less lobed 
leaves, but I think it is only a more luxuriant specimen than usual, 
It is very similar to /7. physaloides, Guill. & Per., but the lobes 
of the leaves are much less acuminate and there are no glands 
exuding carbonate of lime on the underside of the leaves, so 
characteristic of that species. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,000 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 112. 
Growing to 14 ft. high, at first erect, then producing long side 
branches running on the ground; flowers yellow, with a blood-red 
centre, 
Hibiscus Kirkii, Must. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 214. : 
n erect annual, growing to 3 ft. high, covered with adhesive 
prickly hairs ; flowers deep lemon-yellow, with a blood-red centre. 
Hibiscus diversifolius, Jacq. 
Chobe River, 2,500 ft.? Lugard, 301. 
A magnificent water-holyhock, growing erect to 12 ft. or more 
high in the main channel of the River Chobe, close to the bank, 
Flowers magenta ? 
Hibiscus cannabinus, Linn. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,000 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 213. 
An erect aunual, growing to 3 ft. high, found about swamps, very 
thorny ; flowers pale yellow, with a rich claret-purple centre. 
Fugosia digitata, Pers. ; 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 94. ; 
A perennial, growing to 1 ft. high; flowers yellow, with a deep 
red centre having a fringe-like margin. : 
*Gossypium obtusifolium, Roxb. var. africana, Watt, Wild and 
Cultivated Cotton Plants, p. 153, t. 23. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,000 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 198. 4] 
A spreading bush, growing to 4 ft. high; flowers yellow, with a 
claret-coloured centre. 
STERCULIACEAE. 
Melhania didyma, Evki. 5; Zey. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,400 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 123. : 
A dwarf bush, growing to 3 ft. high ; flowers yellow. 
