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purpureo-maculata, intra intense velutino - an Serb ; tubus 
1 lin. longus, campanulatus ; ; limbus patens, ad medium 5-lobus ; 
lobi 1} lin. longi et lati, oo acuti, ph eupuneral. 
marginibus revolutis. Corona exteric agp ema Gee 
truncata, angulis mae ies pro sien purpur Corone 
inter roe lobi fere 4 lin. longi, erecto- pan aaa tevitar clavati, 
obtusi, basi fundo corons exterioris adnat 
ARA Described from a living ne sent by the late 
Mr. Theod ore Bent, in 1897, to the Royal Gardens, Kew, where 
it flowered in August, 1898. 
340. Caralluma torta, N. H. Brown [Asclepiadacez] ; 
Soc speciebus lobis corolle in columnam_ tortis are 
distin 
Gi obtuse tetragonus, 4-5 lin. crassus, rugulosus, minu- 
tissime pubescens; anguli leviter dentati. Folia 14 lin. longa, 
Tateclsuicate ulata, pubescentia. ores grroncige breviter pedi- 
en. extra pubescentes. Sepala 4-1 lin. longa, reflexa. Corolla 
n 
oe ore aie or SOCOTRA. ban Th from a living plan 
sent to Kew by the late Mr. Theodore Bent, in 1897, Rie a 
precise statement as to its locality. 
341. Bea hians, Burkill [Gesneracee]; a B. Lawesii, H. O. 
Forbes, caulibus foliisque pilis fulvis densissime tectis inter alia 
cta. 
Caules elongati, pilis fulvis densissime tecti. Folia CEpoees, 
0 
vata, apice ac , acuta, basi rotundata, 3-5} longa, 
2-25 poll. lata, supra pilis aliquo modo rigidis Padvi-canawosistibnte 
tecta, infra pilis mollioribus densius tecta tiolus #- 
longus, ut caules h us. Inflorescentia laxa, longe pedunculata, 
10-1 : ; unculus poll. longus, tus ; 
dicelli 3-1 poll. longi, hirsuti ; bractew lineares. Calycis 5-secti 
segmenta linearia vel o vato- linearia, glabra. Corolla hians ; 
tubus Ailes’ faeter ine oe iora ad 2 co alita, labium auperine 
4 lin. longum bifidum margine leviter sinua formantia, 
um manti 
inferiora tria pets witaling ongum leviter trilobum 
apice o obtusum formantia. Sianieiiii filamenta incurva, stylo 
superata, 
EW GUINEA. Between the South Coast and the Owen Stanley 
Mo ily Burke, 356. 
van Clerodendron Curtisii, H. H. W. Pearson [Verbenacew- 
itices]; species inter affines: dist ssima; a nutante 
Wail., panic : 
inctiss : 
breviore confertioreque, foli 
et caule fistuloso conspicue differt eq e, foliorum characteribus 
