Limnanthemum.] lxxxvii. gentiane/E (baker and buown). 587 



orbiculnr, crenate, peltate, tlorifeious ;\t the centre, Howcrs congested, subscssilc." 

 It was collected in the " interior of Africa " by Vaillant. This description evidently 

 refers to a totally different plant from M. indica, var. /3, and to it belongH the 

 synonym, FiV/ar^m orhiculata, G. Don, Gen. Syst. iv. 169. Therefore, since tlnTnamc 

 L. orbiculatum, Griseb., belongs to one plant and the descrii)lioii nnder it to anotlier, 

 and as G. Don clearly perceived tlie difference between the two and pave the name 

 Villarsia senegalevsis to one of them, it appears advisable to discard the name L. 

 orbiculatum and retain that of L. senegalense for the preceding species. — N. E. Br. 

 9. L. indicum, Durand I- De Wild, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 

 xxxvii. 123, and Reliq. Dewevr. 162, not of Griseh. Flowers yellow. 



South Central. Congo Free State : Kipilie, Laurent, and near Lnkolela, 

 JDewevre, 831, 862a. 



This may be the same as one of the species above described, but it is certaiidv 

 not L. indicum, Griseb., which according to the type specimen at Kew is identical 

 with L. cristatum, Griseb., and has white Howers. I have not found a single 

 instance in which the African and Indian plants of this genus belong to the same 

 ppecies. — N. E. Br. 



