52 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
APETALE AND Monocoty.epons. 
By Dr. A. B. Renpze. 
Lorantuus curvirtorus Benth. Parasite on Mimosa thorn. 
>No: (8. 
nearly 3-3 in.; the flowers are also larger—a good 2 in. long. I 
find in Herb. Kew a similar plant, at Namasi, in British 
Central Africa, by Cameron. The breadth of the leaf is a very 
variable character in this species. 
Euphorbia Eylesii, sp.noy. Herba glaberrima procumbens, 
caulibus dichotome et effuse ramo sis, teretibus, rubescentibus, 
laxiter nad foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis, e basi paullo 
ineequali’ aribus, marginibus in sicco plus minus revolutis in- 
tegris ; atipulis ane geminorum connatis et in processubus 
filiformi ui 
i ineo 
eyathii oh inter r one Os parvi 8, triangularibus, acutis, albidis, 
margine ciliolatis ; glandulis luteis ellipticis, appendice alba, or- 
biculari-ovata preeditis que in geminis alteris approximatis magna 
et Ae fats est in alteris autem minore et Seepe pene obsolete; 
ovario gla 
Dosotibed from a ard branching shoot nearly 80 em. long, the 
stem reaching 1-5 mm. in diameter at the base. Leaves deciduous, 
Cyathia 1-25 mm. long, = about as broad; stalk to 2 mm. long ; 
larger appendages 1:5 m nie ad in two Lisaink glands, much 
smaller and d often vollGned ¢ to mere wing in the other 
b Siding, betiiedn Buluwayo and the Victoria Falls. 
member of the section eestor approaching FE. Poggei 
Pax (in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 118), which is a also a South Tropical 
African species, collected by Pogge on the Lull River, in the 
Lunda district to the north of Rhodesia. Our Species differs in its 
narrowe va hege t leaves, more diffuse habit, more shortly stalked 
ees 
URMANNIA BICOLOR Var. aFRicana Ridl. Granite country, Ma- 
tt Hills, at 5000 ft. altitude ; No. 52. This connects the two 
Ones vesicuLata Ridl., ea Ngee Plant, was also found 
by Mr. Eyles on the Matopo Hills, at 5000 ft. - 3; No. 84. It hag 
