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mucronata, basi brevissime cuneata vel interdum sublonge attenuata, 
primum glauco-albida, demum olivaceo-brunnea, apice rubro-margin- 
ata. Pedunculus ae erectus, 6 cm. longus, 1°5 mm. crassus, 
apice cymose 4-5-florus. "Bracteae minutae e, caducae.  Pedicelli 
6-7 mm. longi, segPeticoks uli. Flores eaeetonyets Calyx 3 mm. 
longus, profunde 5-lobus, viridis, rubro-punctatus ; lobi 2 mm. longi 
et lati, deltoideo-ovati, acuti, subpatulh. Corollae tubus 5°5 mm. 
longus et diametro, cylin pee sordide viridis, rubro-striato- 
punctatus ; lobi 1 em, longi, 3°5-3°75 mm. lati, lanceolati, acuti, 
recurvo-patentes, extra sordide Fatal, intra sordide virides, margini- 
bus sordide rubris. Stamina 7-7'5 mm. longa, exserta, glabra ; 
filamenta filiformia, pallide viridia 3 antherae fuscae. Styli 5, 
stamina excedentes, demum recurvi, pallide virides. Sguamae 
hypogynae minutae, transverse rectangulares. 
TROPICAL eles Northern Rhodesia? without locality, G. 
Simpson-Ha 
The native “habitat of this species is somewhat doubtful. It was 
ae a collection of livmg plants which were collected by 
G. Simpson-Hayward during a cricketing tour in Rhodesia 
and South Africa and presented by him in 1910 t o Kew, where it 
flowered in June,1913. Mr. Simpson-Hayward digs not remember 
where he found it, but informs us that “most of the plants were 
collected in Northern Rhodesia.” The species to which it is most 
nearly allied is, however, a South African plant. 
rs Hyobanche robusta, Schinland [ Scrophulariaceae-Gerardi- 
b. 
eae]; affinis H. sanguineae, Thun ., Sed elatior, sepalo postico libero, 
pees subduplo longiore apice acutiore et ore majore bene 
distinguitur. 
erba parasitica. Caulis usque ad 23 cm, longus, 2°5 cm. crassus, 
carnosus. Folia squamiformia, dense imbricata ; inferiora 5-7 mm 
onga, orbiculari-ovata, abrupte acuta, praeaensd subglabra, fusco- 
ferruginea ; superiora gradatim longiora, us 3 cm. longa et 
1:2 em. lata, oblonga vel elongato- oblonga, Baty vA obtusa, villoso- 
tomentosa, dorso ferruginea, cetera albida. Spica usque ad 14 em. 
longa et 8 cm. lata. Bracteae 2-3 cm. longae, 1-1:2 cm. latae, 
oblongae, obtenae, villoso-tomentosae. Bracteolae 2-2°3 cm. longae, 
15-2 mm. latae, lineares, acutae, villoso-tomentosae, albae, Sepala 
longa, superne 7-8 . diametro, procurva, apice subacuta, ore 
obliquo 2 cm. longo hadi, unidentato, extra villoso-tomentosa, intra 
glabra, basi luteola, superne purpurea, apice ferruginea. Stamina 
vix exserta ; filamenta basi pubescentia ; antherae luteo-brunneae. 
Ovarium globosum, glabrum ; stylus apice decurvus, complanato- 
subclavatus 
Sour Arrica. Humansdorp Div.; near Humansdorp, Mrs. 
Christy 5 
1456. Sarcos peur Pearsonii, N. E. Brown [| Asclepiadaceae- 
Cynancheae] ; nis S. viminali, R. Br., sed floribus minoribus, 
petalis * stiri contortis luteis et corona omnino diversh 
differt 
