360 



Fier. 2. 



&• 



Welw 



the prickly fruits. Walfish Bay. 



Fig. 3. — A group of three engrafted plants of Wehvitschia 

 mirabilis, Hook. f. (all ? ), the plant to the left shows a few 

 subfoliar inflorescences. Sarcocaulon ( ? S. Marlothii) in the 

 distance and a few twigs in the foreground and a small plant 

 of Zygpohyllum Stapfii, Schinz, immediately behind the 

 Welwitschias on the left. "Welwitscli. 



Fig. 4.— Wehvitschia mirabilis, Hook. f. ( ? ), on an unusually 

 steep slope of decomposing granite. The leaves are almost intact. 

 The cones are just past the age at which pollination occurs. 

 Haikamchab. 



Fig. h.— Welwitschia mirabilis, Hook. f. ( ? ), and Sarcostemma 

 vtminale, R. Br. Haikamchab. 



LV.-DIAGNOSES AFRICAN AE: XIX. 



901. Delphinium (Macrocentra) Wellbyi, Hemsl. [Ranunculaceae- 



Helleboreae] ; species D. Leroyi, French., proxima, a qua differt 

 tamen flonbus caeruleis, sepalis angustioribus, petalis 2 anteri- 

 onbus integris, filamentis longe ciliatis et carpellis magis villosis. 



Herba perennis, pilosula, erecta, circiter 60 cm. alta. Caules 

 pauciramosi ramis saepe trifloris. Folia radicalia non visa; 

 cauhna petiolata, 4-6 cm. diametro, palmatim 5-partita ; segmenta 

 .1-Mobulata, lobulis acutis ; petioli graciles 3-8 cm. longi. Floras 

 pubescentes caerulei, circiter 6 cm. diametro, pedunculati ; 

 peauncu h 4-7 cm. longi, bibracteolati, bracteolis linearibus 

 circiter i cm. longis. Sepala obovato-rotundata, circiter 2 cm. 

 longa, apice dorso mcrassata, imbricata ; calcar arcuatum, adscen- 

 aens circiter 4 cm. longum, gradatim attenuatum, vix acutum. 

 quorum l superiorum (nectaria auctorum nonnullorum) 

 S . 0D liquus, sepalis brevior, subaequaliter bifidus, lobulis 



fprpfl f dal ?* lateralia iineari-spathulata, Integra, superiore 

 fere aequantia. Filamenta dilatata, distincte ciliata. Garmlla 



(mature 



Abyssinia. 



Wellby, Oct. 1 



M. 



« Vnrf^ (pier's Jahrb. vol. xx. p. 473), establishes a tribe 

 French M t7 tor f D -™^ocentron, D. 01 i v., and D. Lefroyi, 

 snecie n D }*?" -° f Whi ?' he Btates > has the lo W* spur of any 



was d?^™ \ T n ^ D - Wdll, y i haa an e< l uall y lo°g 8 P ur - Tt 

 Set frZ h J ? aptain Wellb ^ the officer who traversed High 

 return Cm !? *? - ea8t with Lieut ' Nei11 Malcolm. On his 

 South AfnS AbySS T a *° England in 1899 he was ordered to 

 South Africa, where he died from wounds received at Mertzicht. 



sp*nL C U™ * e ? sU0li& > ,°' H ' Wri ^t [Capparidaceae] ; a C. 

 spinosa Linn., folns simpliciter oblongo-ovatis recedit, 



pms DniZ?* -°~?° Cm ' altU8 ' ramo8us > 8ulcatus > stremineus, 

 SrtiL£Kfp^ 1, l Str ? ct,IS ' FoUa oblongo-ovata, acuta, basi 



ad nervLrLi data ' 5 - °^ lon &> 2 cm « lata > *trinq\ie (praecipue 

 nerV08) P lhs cras «« instructa, sursum in bracteas oblongas 



