54 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
described as Barbacenia Wentzeliana by Harms (in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 
eee! and collected by Goetze at Unyika, in the hill-country between 
ot RRARIA RanpDIt Side (in Journ. Bot. 1898, p. 144, sub Morea). 
Buluwayo. No.158. Mr. a? beck sends this eo: from the original 
locality. He describes the ers as ‘‘ dark purple mottled with 
yellow.” It is very near F. ichnane Baker, Solisakod by Lugard 
in the Kalahari desert. F'. Ran owever, more floriferous ; 
e flowers are larger and afrentl ei ured. It is possible that 
a lange series may connect the two 
tANA Baines Baker. No. 38 | is a fine specimen of this plant 
from pe soil in granite country, at 5000 ft., on the Matopo Hills. 
This brings the important South African genus Babiana, as well 
as the species in question, within the limits of the Tropical African 
ra. B, Bainesti is cited from numerous localities in the Transvaal. 
ErtocauLon susMersum Wel An aquatic species from the 
granite country, Matopo Hills, at 5000 ft. (No. 65); previously 
known only from the hileounty, ot Huilla, where it was found by 
Welwitsch in several place: 
K. susutatum N, E. Br. Victoria Falls; No. 125. An cogaat 
specimen of this species, from top of ee? ‘facing the Fa The 
species was previously known only from the plant on Which the 
species was based, collected at the same tocality by Kir 
NOTES ON LIMONIUM. 
By C. E. Satmon, F.L.S. 
LTV.—Linonium aumine Mill. 
Tas is the name which the plant long known to European 
polaiats ‘a Statice rariflora Drej. or S. bahusiensis Fries should 
bear, as Mr. Britt ten has already pointed out in this Journal for 1901, 
$ near Walton, i a Tessa: atudewart near Malden in the same 
county, and since at the mouth of the river that runs from Chi- 
chester in Sussex”; in thees localities it grows to thisday. ‘The 
leaves of this sort are spear-shaped, about i inches long, and 
are broad in the middle, lessening gradually o both ends. The 
stalk rises four or five inches high, dividing into many spreading 
branches, which are very thick set with short spikes of whitish blue 
es sib 
Vv 
n in the National Herbarium from Miller’s herbarium, 
named Limonium humile, is to be referred to L. occidentale O. K., 
