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Arturo Ballester, Chief of the Forest Department in the Canaries, 
and Don Jose Ruiz y Albaya, Assistant Conservator in La Palma 
for their courtesy in affording us all facilities in their power during 
our stay in La Palma. 
XLVIII.—DIAGNOSES AFRICANAE.—LV. 
1451. tance in luteolum, NV. /. Brown { Geraniaceae-Pelargo- 
nieae]; affinis P. rapaceo, Jacq., sed foltis biternatim divisis et 
petalis 3 inferioribus porrectis subimbricatis nec conniventibus 
facile distinguitur. 
Herba bulbosa. Folia 4-5, omnia radicalia; petiolus 4-6 cm. 
eae eae vel minute puberulus ; ; lamina biternatim divisa, 
1°53 - longa et lata, segmentibus ee 3-13 mm, longis 
sineani bie acutis. Pedunculi erecti, 3-5 em. longi, inferne 1-2- 
nodosi, aphylli, minutissime glandutond-jaberill Umbelli 3—5-flori, 
basi bracteis 1 mm. ongis linearibus apice barbatis involucrati. 
Calyx glanduloso-puberulus ; tubus sessilis, 1-3-1-4 em. lon 
lobi lin eari-oblongi, acuti, 4 inferiores reflexi, 
Sane virides. Petala 1 em. longa, spatulata, obtusa, 2 superiora 
ata, erecto-reflexa, 3 inferiora 4°5 mm. lata, porrecta, 
sabmaholonte omnia pallide flava, basi lineis duobis rubris ornata. 
Stamina perfecta 5; antherae et iehak polline aurantiaco, 
Ss FRIcA. Prince Albert Div.; near Prince Albert, 
carson. 
Described from a living plant sent in 1912 by Prof. Pearson to 
ew, where it flowered in June, 1913 
The three lower petals of the flower are horizontally directed 
forward and the two lateral partly overlap the central one, but 
stand pated above it on said plane. 
ongus ; b racteae cs ie ap acutae, 4 mm. longae, 
dense puberulae ; pedicelli 4-5 mm. longi. — aly extra dense 
puberulus, intus fere glaber, coriaceus, lobis 5, postico anguste 
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ovato 5 mm. longo 3 mm. lato, lateralibus linearibus 5 mm, longis 
