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Leaves 4 in. long, coarsely toothed ; nvarv sbasrgy . 7. M. run^sorica. 

 Floral leaves exceeding the cymes, numerous ~ . 8, Jl. ElUotii. 

 Tree ; leafy in. long; petiole 8 in. long . . .9. M. crborescens. 



1 . M. Solmsiiy Schweinf. in Verh. Zool.-Bot. Geaell. Wien, xviii. 

 18()8, G77. Leaves up to 3J by 1 J in., ovate-lanceolate, toothed, sparingly 

 pubescent; petioles up to H in. long. Inflorescence viscid hairy, 

 loosely subtrichotomously cymose ; pedicels up to J in. long. Calyx- 

 segments up to I in. long, linear, acute, nearly glabrous within. Corolla 

 1 in. long, yellow. Pollen ellipsoid. Ovary glabrous, glandular 

 towards the top, lO-ovulate. — Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 388 ; 

 Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. oOl, and in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xviii. 63, t. 1, fig. 18. 



wile Xiand. Abyssinia : Samen ; Ghaba Valley, iSteudner, 1497 ! 



2. M. Thomsoni, C. B. Clarke. Leaves of the foot-long panicle all 

 much reduced, subsessile, about f by i in. long. Calyx-segments, 

 obtuse, sometimes almost spathulate. Corolla J J in. long ; otherwise as 

 M. Solmsii. — Epiclastopelma glundulosum, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xxii. 

 114, and in Engl. <k Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 3B. 305. 



nXozaxnb. Zllst. German East Africa: Ukami ; Ulugnru Mountains, at Buku- 

 buku, 4800 ft., Stuhlmann, 8781! Lower Plateau, north of Lake Nyasa, Thomson! 

 between Lake Nyasa and Lake Tanganyika, 6000-8000 ft., Thomson! 



Twice collected by Thomson with good flowers and fruit, but only a fragment of a 

 lower leaf. Capsule | in. long, lanceolate, glabrous. 6-8-beeded. 



3. M, spathulata, C. B. Clarke. Sepals scarcely J in. long, linear, 

 shortly and strongly dilated at the tip, otherwise as M. Solmsii. 



M-lle Xiand. British East Africa : Mau, 8000 k., Scott-Elliot, 6060 ! 

 The above noie was taken at Berlin; I cannot find Scott- Elliot's 6060 in 

 England. 



4. M. violacea, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 105. Shrub 12 ft. 

 high {Mann), Leaves up to 7 by 3 J in., ovate-lanceolate, toothed, 

 sometimes doubly toothed or irregularly lobed, sparingly pubescent ; 

 petioles 1-3 in. long. Inflorescence viscid-hairy, loosely compound- 

 cymose ; pedicels often J in. long, or (in one panicle only of Mann 

 2348) much denser with very many flowers and pedicels hardly \ in. 

 Calyx-segments up to 1 (or even 1^^) in. long, linear, acute, nearly 

 glabrous within. Corolla 1 in. long, pale-violet {Lindau). Ovary with 

 brown glandular scales nearly to the base, and with few or many long 

 white several-celled hairs at the top or extending nearly to the base. 

 Capsule f in. long, lanceolate, minutely hairy, ultimately glabrate, 

 usually perfecting 6-8 seeds. — Lindau in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. 

 iv. 3B. 301, fig. 121, D-H. M. hicalcarata, Lindau in Engl. Jahrb. 

 xvii. lOG, and in Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenf. iv. 313. 301, fig. 108, D. 



Vpper Guinea. Camevoons: Buea, 3000-7800 ft., P/ewss, 814 ! 1056 I Cameroon 

 mountains, 7000 ft., Mann, 1260 ! 1965 ! Foruando Po, 7000 ft., Mann, 2348 ! 



In M. hicalcarata the anther of the anticous stamen is said to have one cell long- 

 spurred, the other very short-spurred ; but in the authentic example of Lindau, tha 



