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Original Articles. 
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES ON A FEW OF HILDEBRANDT’S 
EAST AFRICAN PLANTS. 
By J. G. Baxen, F.L.S., anp 8. Le M. aed F.L.S. 
[Tas. 185.] 
Tax plants collected in Eastern Tropical Africa and the Comoro 
Islands by Dr. Hildebrandt have ag distributed during the last few 
years, and — a set purchased b e Kew Herbarium, we have 
selected a of the most cy species for description. Dr. 
Hildebrandt 's s collections are extremely interesting, and include a new 
(the second known) diccious Buxus (B. Hildebrandtii, Baill.) from 
Somali Land, and from the same country the Singular Convolvulaceous 
genus Hildebrandtia described by Dr. Vatke.* Prof. H. G. Reichen- 
bach ¢ has also described a new Balanophora (B. kag beet om 
the fae Islands, and Holothriz Vatkeana from Somali L 
Iti is to be hoped that we shall some day have a full account of ine 
: voLatum, S. Moore, n.sp. —Caule gracili 
divaricato cortice cinereo striato glabrescen sa ig lenticellifero induto, | 
foliis breviter petiolatis membranaceis ovato-oblongis obtusis basi 
cati i i pruin 
in infea me leah minute bracteolatis puberulis 4-3 unc. long, (wtate 
pam ac robustioribus), calyce minuto cyathiformi brevissime 
oque in ovario 2 SUSE R ON ty fructibus 2-5-nis apiculatis 
nitidis 1-vel 2- pag in statu 2-spermo toruloso-constrictis, semini- 
bus oblongis, } unc. long. Lined tenui fulva muni 
a —Ad litt. — juxta BagamOso regione Yanzibarica. No. 
4! 
There are specimens of this in the Kew Herbarium, collected by 
Dr. Kirk at Mombasa. 
The genus has hitherto consisted of two o species, natives of Guinea, 
The ne nearest ally. of the present plant is C. Vogelit, from which it is 
*. : a Bot., nor p. 313. 
Journ. Bot., 1876, pp. 45, 346. “ae 
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