408 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
alata may reach 2:0 cm. in length, eae it is often “ee ne 
ee than that of B. lancifolia, and i h narro and 
gradually dilated upwards to the soak ‘whieh is only 0 6 cm 
across. Then the corolla-lobes of the Damara-land plant are 
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oblong, 1:7 cm. long, and only 0-7 cm. broad. The stamens of 
B. lancifolia, it may be added, are very shortly exserted, the oblong 
anthers having a length of 0°3 cm. 
The two plants have so different an appearance ne laid side 
by side that nobody could suppose them to be conspec 
2. B. pamarensts T, And. The type-specimen is a small scrap 
about eight centimetres in cit with two fully w Aber oy calyces 
and a single mature corolla. may be described thus: 
Verisimiliter suffruticosa mle erecto folioso Inindtiaeiaie cano- 
tubo cylindrico minutissime puberulo quam calyx one limbo 
panes bemers 5-lobo, filamentis ee exsertis. 
iorum lamina circa 1:0 cm. lon ng. et 0-5 cm. lat. ; peat 
1 tes 
gee Pier described the larger calyx-lobes as entire, but, 
ea this is almost the case with the lower of the two 
Bei lobes of the other are manifestly dentate. There 
ie oe and narrower bracts, larger and broader discoloured calyx- 
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feo spinosus §. Moore (vide ante, p. 805). 
of Berlin, has kindly called my attention to a 
memoir by Bar Baker in the Bremen Abha ndlun awe vol. = " 
my recently publiched Prd a ns Radlkofer ar 
the advantage of having ripe fruit for examination ; and, in spite of 
the undoubtedly ventral attachment of the ovule, he referred his 
