Buine,v.] cix. polyoonace.e (baker and wright). 117 



77 ! iSchimper, 1067 ! 1484 ! Plowden ! Parkt/ns ! British East Africa : Ndoli, 

 Oreflort/. 



Mozamb. Dlst. German £ast Africa : Kilimanjaro, Johnston ! Meyer, 146, 

 164. 



Var. vsambarensis, Engl, in Glied. Veg. Usambarn, 61. Stem often 40 ft. long, 

 winding in and out amongst the bush, with a tendency to root between the stones. 



Mozamb. Dlst. German East Africa: Usanibiira, INIlalo and Kwa Msliuzu, 

 ex JSH<//er. 



Also in Arabia. 



G. R. vesicarius, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 33C. Stem herbaceous, 

 branching at the base. Leaves deltoid or ovate, usually cordate at the 

 base, rather flesliy, minutely papillose when dry, about IJ in. long and 

 1 in. wide ; petiole of lower leaves up to li in. long. Panicles terminal ; 

 peduncles slender, articulated about the middle, 1 -flowered or with 2 

 terminal connate flowers ; bracts about as long as the peduncles, 

 lanceolate, scarious. Perianth-segments 4 lin. in diam. in fruit, sub- 

 orbicular, cordate at both ends, reddish, woody in the centre, mem- 

 branous and reticulated on the wings, not nerved at the margins. 

 Achene triquetrous or almost winged, acute, cream-coloured, IJ lin. 

 long. — Campd. Monogr. liumex, 129, t. 3, fig. 1 ; ISIeisn. in DC. Prodr. 

 xiv. 70 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iv. 1017 ; Engl. & Prantl, Pflanzenfam. 

 iii. lA, 17, fig. 8, D-E; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append, ii. 

 154. 



Xrile Xiand. Nubia: coast region, Pent! Sonialiland : Golis Range, Z)ra /(•<?- 

 P rock man, 234 ! 



Also from Egypt and Greece to Afghiinistan. Very closely allied to Ji. rosevs, 

 Linn., which has the fruiting-perianth nerved around its margin. 



7. R. nepalensisy Spreng. Syst. ii. 159. Perennial. Stems 

 moderately stout, 3-4 ft. high, divaricately branched. Basal leaves 

 oblong, rounded or cordate at the base, 1 ft. or more long, long-petioled, 

 cauline from ovate-oblong with a cordate base to lanceolate. Racemes 

 forming long lax panicles, with reduced leaves in the lower part only ; 

 flowers many in a whorl ; pedicels deflexed, longer than the flowering 

 perianth, articulate below the middle. Inner perianth-segments ^ in. 

 long in fruit, ovate-cordate, margined with hooked teeth as long as the 

 segment is broad, not tubercled, or with a tubercle on 1 or 3 segments. 

 Nutlet U lin. long, ovoid-triquetrous. — Wight, Ic. PI. 1. 1810; Meisn. 

 in DC. Prodr. xiv. 55 ; Hook. f. Fl, Brit. Ind. v. 00, and in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. vii. 214. R. obtusifoliue, T.Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 

 045, not of Linn. ; var., Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 141 ; var. 

 Steudeliij Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vii. 214. H. Steudelii, Hochst. 

 in Schimp. Fl. Abyss. Exsicc. 380, and ex A. Br. in Flora, i. 278, 1841 ; 

 Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 204 ; Britten <fe Rendle in Gregory, 

 Great Rift Valley, 397 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 292 ; var. cordifolins, A. Rich. 

 Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 229. H. steudelianus, Meisn. in DC. Prodr. xiv. 

 50 ; var. cordifolius^ Meisn. I.e. 



