SHORT NOTES. 85 
Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire (on Cotswold Hills), in July, 
188 The seed was probably introduced with foreign corn, 
— the _— is used as a training-ground for race-horses.—H. 
Br icotor Mart. in Arrica.—The only species of Bur- 
manniacee obtained by Dr. Welwitsch in Angola is not specifically 
distinct from B. bicolor Martius, a common South American plant 
occurring in Surinam, Orinoco, British Guiana, Cuba, and Brazil, 
as far south as Minas Geraes. The African plant differs in several 
small points from the American, and indeed some specimens would 
h her 
in a head, and the shape of the perianth, ay wings of which taper 
towards the bas se, giving it a cordate outlin 
Burmannia bicolor var. africana. — Habe palmaris quam forma 
typica validior. views 1-7 congesti violacei laciniw limbi exteri- 
ores flavee carina purpurea interiores lineares lanceolate flavescenti 
albe. Alex tubi baat: angustati, perianthii ambitum cordatum for- 
mans.—Angola, Huilla. In spongy woody meadows at Monino and 
Lopollo, growing with Eriocaulons, aia” Primulacea, and 
cleria. i it in a” wy 
HORPIA EUROPHA L. in N. Devon. —I forward a specimen of ~ 
a doubt tae in seth to the — cae Biase fey 
Position of the ii 
