ALABASTRA DIVERSA 258 
attingentes. Stipule 0-6 cm. long. Cyme circa 2-0 cm. long., 
divaricate et tune fere 4:0 cm. diam., vel simpliciores et modo 
‘5 cm. diam. Pedunculus communis circa 0-7 cm. et pedicelli 
0:4-0°5 cm. long. Calycis lobi 0°85 em. long., 0-1-0-13 cm. lat. 
Corolla in toto 0°8 cm. long.; tubus 0°83 em. lat., extus glaber, 
intus annulo pilorum deflexorum instructus. Ovarium 0:2 cm. long. 
et lat. Stylus deorsum paullo incrassatus. 
Nearest V. lasiantha Sond., and distinguished from it by the 
thinly membranous green | s, smaller flowers, shorter calyx- 
lobes not at all spathulate, shorter corollas not divided beyond the 
middle and glabrous outside, subsessile subincluded anthers, and 
shorter style. 
Fapocia stenopuynia Welw. var. RHODESIANA var. nov. Folia 
abbreviata, obovato-oblonga, obtusissima, 1°5-2°0 em. long., plera- 
que 1-0-1-2 cm. lat., in sicco lete viridia. Salisbury, September. 
No. 629. : 
is has a markedly different look from the type, chiefly on 
account of the short and broad bright green leaves. The flowers 
are very slightly larger than those of the type, and the calyx-lobes 
Slenderer and not all of them developed sometimes. There are, 
however, intermediate forms at Kew from Nyassaland. : 
_ Dr. Rand notes: “The flowers are cream-coloured, with a 
slightly waxy effect.” 
Anthospermum Randii, sp.nov. Suffruticosa, stricta, pauci- 
t 
. . . 2 . . had 7 
ramosa, ramis strictis crebro foliosis subquadratis patule pubescenti- 
mi mu , fructus 
coccis oblongis deorsum levissime angustatis introrsum sulcatis 
475 
Folia modica circa 1:5 em. long., sepe modo 1:0 cm., raro 
usque ad 8-5 cm. elongata, in sicco (i.e. involuta) 0°1-0°8 cm. lat., 
rigide patula vel ascendentia; stipule pars libera 0°15 cm. long. 
Fil. hermaph. tubus 0-8 cm. long., limbus 0°5 em. diam. ; fil. foem. 
€ very short styles terminated by much longer arms, «c. 
