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styles a trifle shorter (0-3 cm. instead of 0-4 cm.). A very rarer 
species, which one would naturally sort Ewe Spermacoce befor 
Oldenlandia prolixipes, sp.nov. Herba ramosa ramis patenti- 
bus bene foliosis novellis pubescentibus, - foliis parvis sessilibus 
oblongo- vel lineari- lanceolatis acutis basi obtusis scabriuscule 
puberulis 1-nervibus in sicco griseo- -viridibus, stipulis brevibus 
lobos lanceolatos breviter acuminatos partitus paullulum breviore, 
corolle calycem duplo excedentis lobis tubum sequantibus, antheris 
inelusis, stylo incluso, — ramis stylo sequilongis lineari- 
oblongis cerebro papillos 
Hab. Near pee at 400 ft. No. 442, 
Folia + 15 em. x 0°3-0-4 em., margine levissime revolute. 
Stipule = rea 0-2 sie: long. Peduneuli summum 4:5 em. long., 
breviores vero exstant. Pedicelli 0: 5-2°0 cm. long. Calyx totus 
0°35 cm. long., cujus limbus 0-2 em. metitur. Corolle glabree in 
toto 0°8 em. long. Antherze Lhe medium tubum insert, 0:12 em 
long. ae rami 0-1 ¢ ae 
ssinica Sinn, m which it differs in the hairiness 
of san a leaf, the long soliais, lanceolate calyx-lobes, &c. 
Larenna angolensis Hiern in FI. Trop. Afr. iii. 89.—Hab: Timba. 
No. 246. 
Apparently the same as the type collected in Angola by Monteiro. 
Gardenia Anne P, Wright in Trans. Roy. Irish Acad. xxiv. 875, 
var. Morambaile Hiern in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 103. — Hab. Makyui 
No, 405. 
Polyspharia sete Hiern in F}. Trop. Afr. iii. 127. — Hab. 
Near Moa, and on high ground, Pemba River. Nos. 57 and 362. 
P. pigeon rai in Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 128.—Hab. Pemba Mi., 
at 400 ft. 387. 
vexed Kaessneri, sp.nov. Inerme ramis maxime divari 
catis, ramulis bene foliosis glabris, foliis parvis brevipetiolatis 
oblongo-oblanceolatis obtusissimis basin versus sensim angustatis 
area glaberrimis supra nitescentibus costis Spe eg yin 
-4 ascendentibus, stipulis parvis lanceolatis acuminatis m 
iaiidis. floribus Seed pseudumbellatis donates pedicellatis 
infil 
orescentiis ramulos coronantibus sessilibus vel brevissime pe- 
dunculatis igiariforie, calyete glabri limbo brevissimo undulato 
truncato, corolle tubo sat lato extus glabro intus annulo siortids 
instructo limbo 5, lobo Joi ssoittie tl acutiusculis quam tubus 
coral tuba 
Hab. Gait a at 300 ft. No. 418. 
