1054 ADDENDA. 



10. Cluytia abyssinica, Jauh. d- Spach. Add: Mildbr. Wiss. 

 Deiitsch. Zenti.-Atr. Exped. ii. 460. 



Mozamb. Blstr. German Eaat Airica: Rugege forest, Mtldlraed, 915 ; 

 liugoie, Mildbraed, 1485. 



:). Grossera Quintasii, Pax d- K. Jlofm. in Knyl. Pjianzeur. 

 Kuphorh.-Acahjph. Chrozo})hor. 108. Shrub (?); twigs glabrous. Leaves 

 distinctly petioled, thinly coriaceous, elliptic, bluntly acuminate, base 

 wide-cuneate or rounded, eglandular, margin entire, 4^-7 in. long, 2-3 in. 

 wide, glabrous ; main nerves 5-8 on each side, slender ; reticulation 

 distinct; petiole f-lj in. long, glabrous, thickened at the apex; 

 stipules united in an ochrea, sheathing the bud, caducous, leaving 

 annular scars. Flowers in terminal racemes, 3-oJ in. long; bracts 

 caducous, leaving a scar like the stipular, each enclosing "l-'d male 

 flowers ; rhachis finely puberulous ; pedicel glabrous or very sparingly 

 puberulous, J in. long. Mule : Calyx ovoid, closed in bud, J in. across, 

 \ in. long, apicvilate, splitting into 2-3 valvate segments, glabrous, 

 thinly membranous. Petals 5, contorted-imbricate, obovate, obtuse. 

 Stamens 4-seriate, 5 to each whorl ; base of receptacle surrounded by 5 

 extra-staminal glands, alternating with stamens of lowest whorl and 

 with the petals. Female flowers and fruit not seen. 



Xiower Guinea. Island of St. Thomfls, Quintas, 130 ! 



The absence of gliuuls from the base of the leaf ami the existence of connate, oclirente, 

 bud-enclosing stipules, which are very caducous and in falling leave a circular scar, 

 give colour to the suggestion made by tlie authors of this species, that this may 

 possildy prove not to be a Orossera, with which genus the male flowers, however, 

 agree very closely in structure. From tlie other two species the racemose in place 

 of paniculate male Howers, the eglandular leaves and the ochreate stij)ule8 amply 

 distinguish it. 



1. Manniophyton africanum, Miill. Ary. Add : Mildbr. Wistj. 

 Deutsch. Zentr.-Atr. Exped. ii. 451. 



Soutb Central. Belgian Congo : various localities, Mildbraed, 2278, 2957, 

 3004. 



1. Crotonogyne Preussii, Pax. 



In Enfjl. Pjlanzenr. Euphorb.-Acalyph. Chrozophor. 113, this species, in 

 which the male petals are free, is treated as generically distinct from those species in 

 which the male petals are united. In the jyianzenreich, C. Preussii is associated 

 with C. manniana, Miill. Arg. ; all the other species described in this work at 

 pp. 821-826 being treated as members of a new genus iV^eomaw «io/;-^^f on. Pax, I.e. 115. 

 Since, however, see p. 822 supra, the male petals in C manniana are united, the 

 species in question are members of the genus Crotonogyne, Miill. Arg.; the proposed 

 genus Neomanniophyton, Pax, is invalid ; and, if it be necessary, owing to the existence 

 of C. Preussii, Pax, to establish a new genus, it is for this last-mentioned plant 

 that a new generic name must be provided. Probaldy, however, a sectional position 

 is an adequate recognition of the status of C. Preussii. 



13. Crotonogyne strigosa, Prain. Add: S eomanniophyton 

 ledermannianum^ Pax \' K. Hoffm, in Engl, Pflanzenr. Euphorb.- 

 Acalyph. Chrozophor. IIG. 



Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Lorn, Zecfermann, 6468 ! 6476. 



