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plant—and I think correctly—to Nyctaginee. Dr. Harms was good 
enough to send me some flowers of P. spinosum, and one of a sup- 
posed second species—P. Heimerli Engl.; he also tells me that Prof. 
Heimerl has recently prepared a monograph of Nyctaginee for the 
Denkschriften Akad. Wien, which, however, has not yet found its 
way to the British Museum Library, and that in this monograph 
are distinguished, besides the type, a var. 8 (P. Heimerli Engl.) and 
a var. y. The species is therefore a very variable one. 
The chief peculiarity about the flowers of Amphoranthus spinosus 
I am not prepared to say more than that Amphoranthus spinosus = 
Phaoptilum spinosum Radlk. var. ?, as it may possibly prove a distinct 
species. 
Thus my surmise—in the event unfortunate, though arrived at 
after careful review of all supposed possibilities—that the fruit of 
Amphoranthus would prove a legume, has not been 
their fruit. 
I may add that one of the flowers of Een’s plant has two carpeis, 
united below it is true, but cer a . 
a normal style and stigma. Lhere 1s, 
ovary. Radlkofer noted the same thing as of very rare occurrence 
in P, spinosum. 
: (To be continued.) 
Se eran ree ea 
ALTHHA HIRSUTA IN SURREY. 
By GC. E. Satmon, F.L.S. 
ber last this plant was discovered in Surrey, upon the 
stale Halls neat Rola, wy Mr. Wilfrid B. Alexander, of Tunbridge 
i to its locality. : 
baie Paiyae Posies OO its aa Surrey station, it may be 
England, and note the 
