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et breviter pilosis ; pedunculi multiflori, apice bracteas 2 f oliaceas 

 gerentes, floribus capitatis, capitibus solitariis vel pltiribus, bracteis 

 floralibus late ovalibus vel suborbicularibus, calycem aeqiiantibus 

 vel excedentibus ; sepala late ovata usque suborbicularia, scariosa ; 

 corolla campanulata alba ; ovarium glabrum. 



Stems herbaceous, scandent, slender, pilose with very short 

 spreading fulvous hairs; petioles 0.6-3 cm. long; leaf blades broadly 

 cordate-ovate or deltoid-ovate, sometimes subhastate, 3-8 cm. long, 

 2.3-6 cm. long, acute to acuminate at the apex, shallowly or deeply 

 cordate at the base, the lobes rounded or angulate, thin, entire or 

 slightly undulate, densely pilose-sericeous when young with fulvous 

 hairs, thinly short-pilose in age; peduncles 2-10 cm. long, many- 

 flowered, bearing at the apex 2 leaflike bracts, the flowers numerous, 

 capitate, the heads i or several, the pedicels 5 mm. long or shorter, 

 the bracts subtending the flowers broadly oval or suborbicular, 

 equaling or exceeding the calyx, obtuse or abruptly short-cuspidate, 

 short-pilose; sepals 10-13 nim. long, 10 mm. wide or narrower, 

 broadly oval, ovate-oval, or suborbicular, scarious, the outer ones 

 pilose with very short fulvous hairs ; corolla campanulate, 2.8 cm. 

 long, white, the margin dentate, densely sericeous in bud ; filaments 

 about I cm. long, short-pilose below ; style as long as the filaments, 

 the 2 stout filiform styles 3 mm. long; ovary glabrous. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 631345, collected on 

 the western slopes of Mount Kenia, British East Africa, in the 

 giant heath zone, altitude about 3,630 meters, September 21 to 27, 

 1909, by E. A. Mearns (no. 1294). 



Related, apparently, to Convohnilus kiUmandscJwri Engler, a 

 plant with longer pubescence, obtuse leaf blades, and acute bracts. 



EHRETIA INAMOENA Standley, sp. nov. 



Rami juniores hirsuti, vetustiores glabrescentes ; folia petiolata, 

 laminis ovalibus usque ovali-obovatis, basi subcordatis usque obtusis," 

 apice obtusis usque acuminatis, integris, supra glabris vel ad costam 

 sparse hirtellis, subtus sparse hirsutis vel hirtellis ; paniculae termi- 

 nales, dense multiflorae, ramulis breviter pilosis ; calyx 5-lobatus, 

 ferrugineo-puberulus, lobis ovatis acutis ; corolla glabra, tubo 3 mm. 

 longo, lobis ovalibus, apice rotundatis, 2-3 mm. longis ; stamina 

 exserta : fructus 4-lobatus. 



Branches stout, brownish, hirsute when young with rather short 

 slender stiff whitish hairs, glabrate in age; petioles 0.8-1.8 cm. 

 long, hirsute; leaf blades oval, oval-obovate, or oval-oblong, 5.5-12 



