214 
tenues, 1 cm. longi, pubescentes. Cymae axillares, pauciflorae ; 
bracteae ovatae, 2 mm. ongae, pubescentes.  Perianthium basi 
” 
inferne cylindricus, superne infundibuliformis, uno latere emar- 
ginatus, altero in limbum lanceolatum 6 mm. latum plus quam 12 mm, 
ongum productus. Gynostemium subsessile. Stamina 12; anthe- 
rarum loculi lineares, quam gynostemium duplo breviores. Styli 
rami subulati. 
Portucurse East Arrica. Lower Zambesi; Shiramba, 
Kirk, Lower Shire River ; Moramballa, 917 m., Kirk. 
The apex of the perianth-limb has been broken off all the flowers 
I have seen. 
1026. Piper brachyrhachis, C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. 
vi, sect. 1, part i. p. 147 (anglice) [Piperaceae-Pipereae] ; 
P. pseudosilvatico, C. DC., affine, ramis pubescentibus differt. 
Frutex 2 m. altus. Rami pubescentes. Folia ovata, acuminata, 
basi rotundata, 5-7-nervia, subtus dense villosa, supra glabra, 
14 cm. longa, 9 cm. lata; nervi laterales 2-4, e laminae basi ipsa 
orti, reliqui suprabasilares ; petioli 2°5 em. longi, supra canali- 
culati, villosi. Pedunculus tenuis, 1°8 em. longus, villosus ; spiea 
10 mm, longa; bracteae peltatae, glabrae, albae ; flores polygami. 
Stamina 3; filamenta complanata; antherarum loculi segregati. 
i 2 
RITISH CENTRAL Arnica. Nyasaland, between Mpata and 
the commencement of the Tanganyika Plateau, 600-900 m., Whyte ; 
Nyika Plateau, 1200-2100 m., Whyte, 199, 
Ovarium sessile, slobosum ; stigma terminale 
ees Wimni Valley, Ruwenzori, 2079 m., Scott-Elliot, 
1028. Chloropatane Batesii, C. H. Wright in Dyer, Fl. Trop. 
1. 8 : i. p. 169 (anglice) [Monimiaceae]; 4 
C. africana, Engl., foliis basi cuneatis nervisque lateralibus 
om brs rucosa 
primarios puberula, caeterum glabra ; nervi laterales utringue 4-6, 
nues, intra margines arcuatim connexi ; petioli 1 cm. longi, puberuli. 
Racemi axillares pp ramorum apices; pedunculi tenues, 2 cm. 
longi ; pedicelli fi iformes, 1°8 em, longi. Flores masculi 5 mm. 
fam. Perianthium breviter 4-lobatum, viride, glabrum, ante 
anthesin globosum. Antherac obovoideae. Flores feminei ignoti, 
ROPICAL AFRICA, Cameroons ; Efulen, Bates, 409, 
