426 RHODESIAN POLYPETALZ. 
es oy ee hairy externally, loculi + 5-6-seeded, carpels 
Hes MANNIA DEPRESSA N. E. Br. 
Hab. Sa Piet ees No. 569. Buluwayo, May, No. 382. 
H. viscosa Hier 
Hab. Baliwayo, May, No. 295. 
WaLTHERIA AMERICANA L, 
Hab. Buluwayo, Dec., No. 53. 
Trromretra Mastersu Baker fil. : 
Hab. Salisbury, Aug., No. 440; in flower and young fruit, 
Sept., Nos. 592 & 592 
CorcHorus seRR&FoLIus Burch. 
Hab. Buluwayo, Dec., No. 8. 
Wilms No. 106, from Transvaal, is the sa 
A plant in the National Herbarium, auteorea by Rev. W. Green- 
stock at Pilgrim’s Rest, Transvaal, is var. linearifolius Szyszyl. 
SPHEDAMNOCARPUS PRURIENS Planch. ? 
Buluwayo, May, No. 431 (in fr 
a 4 clitnber. The small needle- a ‘Sorat upon the e fruit come 
off as in case of pods of Mucuna pruriens. They caused considerable 
irritation. My hands tingled for covetal days after handling. 
This is the S. pruriens Rolfe in Oates, Matabeleland, ‘ed. 2, 
p. 896. It seems somewhat different from the type of S. p ‘Uriens ; 
the leaves are not nearly so silvery beneath, &c. 
Monsonta Birtora DC, 
Hab. Bu away; Dec., No. 19. 
M. Burxeana Planch. 
Hab. Galisbitry, i in flower, Aug., No. 441. 
Oxatis cornicunata L. var. 8 sTRicTA. 
Hab. Buluwayo, a No. 296. 
THAMNOSMA AFRIcANUM Engl. var. RHODESICUM. Stems erect, 
virgate, more robust than the type, aboei 30-40 cm. long. ‘Leaves 
rather thick, glandular, simple or ee when dissected middle 
lobe longest, see subentire or crenu i 
Hab uwayo, in flower and vase fruit, Jan., No. 83; 
in fruit cay, May, No. 297. 
Th comes from Otyjimbinque, Marloth No. 1413; it has 
also ote collected in — Namaqualand by Dr. Hans Schinz. 
Var. crenatum Engler, Notiz. Bot. Gard. Berl. 11. 26, is founded on 
a plant from the Tena collected by Dr. Wilm s, No. 202. It is 
also in the Kew Herbarium from the eusvial, ‘collected by Dr. 
W. G, Atherstone, The Rhodesian plant is intermediate between 
The distribution of this genus 7 ie pea Two 2 tee are 
North American, T. montana Torrey & Fremont and 1’. na 
Torrey ; a third species, 7’. socotran at toad found by Dr. Balfour in 
the hills of promi a fourth, 7. Hirschii Schwf., rabian. 
fruit o T. ssfricaviun et not the long sage of the typical 
North conidia ‘plant on which the genus was founded. The 
