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widow—he had married in 1900—says: “The news of Mr, Car- 
im as a most able and energetic officer and a genial friend in 
social life, and the Colony has lost the services of a very capable 
expert at a time when they were most needed.” 
We are indebted for the use of the portrait which accompanies 
this notice to the editor of the India-rubber Journal, in whose 
issue for July 25 it appears. 
ALABASTRA DIVERSA.—Part XIX.* 
By Spencer te M. Moors, B.Sc., F.L.S. 
1. RusrackaArum AFRICANARUM NOVARUM PUGILLUS. 
Pentas decorus, sp. nov. Caule erecto simplici valido sub- 
tereti superne compressiusculo glabro, foliis 3-4-natim verticillatis 
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membranaceis utrinque glabris vel presertim ad nervos puberulis, 
stipulis sepius bipartitis segmentis lineari-subulatis apice induratis 
dorso pubescentibus, cymis brevibus densi etsi paucifloris glabris, 
bracteis parvulis subulatis pubescentibus, florum subsessilium 
glabris quinto quam ceteri paullo breviore, corolla magnx tubo 
superne gradatim dilatato extus sparsim puberulo intus faucibus 
um : . Ovarium 2:5 mm. long. 
Calycis limbus 2 mm. long.; lobi 4:5 mm. (lobus quintus 4 mm.). 
Cor ubus fere 9 cm. long., inferne 25 superne 4:5°em. diam. ; 
lobi (ut tubi pars superior) crassi, rugati, 1 cm. long. Filamenta 
45 mm., anthere 7 mm. long. Stylus 10 cm. long., arctissime 
microscopice albo-papillosus. Stigmatis lobi vix 2 mm. long. 
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* Specimens of all the plants described in this paper a’ 
of the British Museum. 9 
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