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in diameter at the upper part, constricted at the middle, the lower 

 part about 3 mm. in diameter, pubescent at the throat within, 

 otherwise glabrous; lobes 10 mm. long and 6 mm. broad, widely 

 spreading with recurved tips, ovate, tapering into a subulate 

 point, pubescent on the inner face, glabrous on the back, ap- 

 parently white. Anthers sessile at the middle of the corolla-tube 

 and quite included within it, sagittate, acute, united with the 

 stigma and forming an acute cone over it. Style 5 mm. long. 

 Ovary entire, surrounded by five rectangular free glands about 

 i>^ mm. long, bluntly toothed at the top. Follicles 9-10 cm. 

 long and i cm. thick, teretely linear-lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, 

 not nodose, when ripe somewhat woody or very firm and 

 when expanded flat, after shedding the seeds 25-28 mm. broad. 

 Seeds 10-13 mm. long and about 2 mm. broad, linear or linear- 

 lanceolate in outline, triangular in transverse section, with a 

 sessile tuft of light rusty-brown hairs 15-25 mm. long at the apex. 



Raised from seeds sent from Mozambique to the Mayaguez 

 Agricultural Experiment Station in Porto Rico. 



This is probably the same species as specimens collected in the 

 Mozambique region about twenty three miles from Beira by 

 Johnson, No. 275, which are quite similar to the Porto Rico 

 plant in leaf, flower and fruit, but has leaves only 3-5 >^ cm. 

 broad. Possibly the larger leaves of the plant described are 

 merely due to cultivation. 



L. latifolia is easily distinguished from L. variegata by the leaf 

 characters. The flowers may also differ in the living state. 



The hairs on the inner surface of the corolla of this and other 

 members of the genus are very short and appear to have been 

 more or less inflated when alive. They are certainly rather 

 jDeculiar in character. 

 '^ 2. L. variegata N. E. Br. — Mascarenhasia variegata Britten 

 and Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, vol. IV, p. 26 

 (1894). M. elastica K. Schum. in Notizblatt Bot. Gart. Berlin, 

 vol. II, p. 269-270 with fig. and by error M. caustica on p. 268 

 (1899). East Tropical Africa in the coastal area and on Mount 

 Milanji in Nyasaland. 



I can find no difference whatever between authentic specimens 

 of M. variegata and M. elastica, the figure of M. elastica is a very 

 poor one and does not correctly represent either the leaves, 

 which are much more pointed than shown, or the shape of the 

 corolla-tube, according to an authentic specimen received from 

 Berlin, and it is undoubtedly the same as M. variegata. 

 V 3. L. micrantha N. E. Br. — Mascarenhasia micrantha. 

 Baker in Journ, Linn. Soc. vol. XXV, p. 335 (1890). Mada- 

 gascar. 

 ' Kew Surrey, England 



