429, RHODESIAN POLYPETAL®. 
14 in. across, ets externally in their lower part, of a full deep 
yellow. Styles deep a becoming somewhat dus 
Belonging to wri me large group as H. britannicwn, H. steno- 
curvature, by their once dull surface, and by the very short 
and truncate heads whose phyllaries are not long enough to meet in 
the ring i a head when folded over the lig ules. 
been already employed, I propose another suggested by the form of 
the leaves to which the Rev. W. R. Linton has called my attention. 
RHODESIAN POLYPETAL. 
By Epmunp G. Baker, F.L.S. 
Te plants dealt with in Sapa paper were collected in 
December, 1897, and during 1898, by Dr. Frank Rand, some of 
whose novelties. with his Btcstny 6 Waylaring Notes in Rhodesia, 
have already been published in this Journal,* and were presented by 
im to ee National Herbarium. Previous ‘botanical records for this 
region are very few. There is a botanical Appendix 
Rolfe to Oates’s Travels in Matabeleland, but the exact localities at 
which the plants were gathered’are not given; and in the “aie 
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. A. K. Marshall in the neighbourhood of Salisbury in 1895 
and 1896. In the Kew Herbarium there is the collection of Dr. 
Emil Holub. 
Rand has kindly furnished the following notes on the 
physical features of the districts in which his plants were collected. 
e physical features prevailing in Rhodesia are very diverse, 
4 “Balow wayo lies a little to the south of 20° S. lat., while foe 
lies a little to the north of the 18th southern paralle el. Both 
are situated at a heicht approaching 5000 ft. above the sea- etek 
and the country traversed between - two towns falls little below 
* Journ, Bot. 1898, pp. 141 and 345. 
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