JRamex.] cix. poLYGONACEiE (baker and wrigut). 115 



as the perianth-lobes. Nutlet 1| lin. long, acutely triquetrous, light 

 brown.— A. Br. in Flora, 1841, i. 278; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. G8 ; 

 T. Thorns, in Speke, Nile, Append. (;45 ; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 

 ii. 229 ; Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 171 ; Oliv. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 141; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 208; 

 Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. i. 905 ; var. Schimperi, Aschers. I.e. ; 

 Engl. I.e.; var. Kilimcuidschari, 'Engl. I.e. 11. Schimperi, Meisn. I.e. G7, 

 not of Vatke. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Yaunde, Zenker S^ Staudt^ 603 ! 



Xrile Iiand. Abyssinia: Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 398! Ankober, Hoth, 

 641 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 514 ! Petit I Quartin-DiUon ! 

 Uo^anda: Mawokota, JBrown, 180! Ruvvenzori, at Kinata, 6000-9000 ft., Scoit- 

 Elliot, 7700! Unyoro, Spehe Sf Grant, 625 ! 



ILo^irer Guinea. Cameroons, 2600 ft., Zenker S( Staiidt ! Angola : Pungo 

 Andongo; in rocky places by the streams of Catete and Cabonda, Welwitsch, 5356 ! 

 Huilla ; by streams, TFelivitsch, 5357 ! Malange, Oosstveiler, 1024 ! 1025 ! 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa : Karagwe, Speke Sf Grant, 418 ! 

 Kilimanjaro, Vol kens, 423 1 British Central Africa : Nyasalandj Namasi, Mandala, 

 Cameron, 3! Blantyre, top of Wilandi, Buchanan, 22 1 Shire Highlands, 

 Buchanan, 383 ! summit of Chiradzulu Mountain, Cameron ! Masuku Plateau, 

 Whyte! Mount Malosa, 4000-6000 ft., Whyte ! Mount Mian ji, ^rfawson, 355 ! 

 Mwata Manga sti'oam. Kirk I and without precise locality, Buchanan^ 790 ! 



Var. angnstisectus, Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 203. Leaf-segments linear, 

 acute, the central one 3-4 times as long as the lateral, 8 in. long, 1 in. wide. 



xrile Iband. Abyssinia: Begemeder; near Debra-Tabor, 9000 ft., Schimper, 

 1527! 



Var. Mannii^ Engl. I.e. Leaves triangular, acuminate, up to 4 in. long and 

 3^ in. wide, pilose beneath. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons, 4000-7000 ft., Mann, 1217 ! 1978! 



2. R. maderensis, Lowe, Nov. Fl. Mad. 12. A shrub up to 10 ft 

 high. Branches striate, glabrous. Leaves often crowded on short 

 lateral branchlets, distinctly petioled, ovate, acute, hastate or cordate or 

 furnished with small deflexed auricles, moderately firm, li-2 in. long. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, in ample terminal panicles ; branches and 

 branchlets spreading; lower branches very compound, subtended at the 

 base by. reduced leaves ; flowers several in a cluster ; pedicels capillary, 

 longer than the flowers. Inner segments of the fruiting perianth 

 cordate-orbicular, bright red, entire, strongly reticulated. — Webb ct; 

 Berth. Phytog. Canar. iii. iii. 287 ; Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. G7 ; T. 

 Thorns, in Speke, Nile, Append. G45 ; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 

 142, t. 90. R. tingitarms, Webb & Berth. I.e., not of Linn. 



JTile Xiand. Uganda : Ruwenzori ; Yeria, 7000 ft., Scotf-EUiot, 7759 ! 

 British East Africa: valley near Lake Nakuro, 6000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6792 ! 

 Kilungu River, in Ukamba, Scott-JElliot, 2357 



Mozamb. Bist. German East Africa : Mininga, Speke Sf Grant, 77 ! 

 Kilimanjaro, Smith ! Marangu, Volkens, 2104 ! higher plateau north of Lake 

 Nyasa, Thomson ! and without precise locality, Busse, 355 ! British Central Africa : 



