x FLORA OF MADRAS. 



EHRHARTA ABYSSINICA, Hochst. The genus EHEHABTA is mainly 

 African ; it has not been reported hitherto from India, and so does 

 not find place in the ' F. B. I.' Since the publication of Part X of 

 the present work, Mr. C. E. Hubbard had drawn my attention to a 

 sheet of the species mentioned above collected not later than 1835 in 

 the Nilgiri Hills by B. Schmid and now in the Kew Herbarium. On 

 the label is a note, not in the collector's hand, suggesting that it is 

 an introduction, but as the species occurs in the mountains of 

 Abyssinia and also in E. Africa, it is not at all a likely plant to be 

 introduced either intentionally or accidentally. Moreover, certain 

 plants are known to be common to India and E. Africa. In spite, 

 therefore, of the fact that no further specimens have been collected 

 since B. Schmid's time, it seems to be the safest course to include this 

 species in the Addenda. Unfortunately there is no mention of the 

 precise locality where Schmid found it. 



