114 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
ie corolla Bee poe yaa Here and there in herb-grown 
s and thicket 
Foliola 30-45. em. longa, 2°5-2'8 cm. lata. Bractee 1:8- 
‘0 em. longe. Bracteole lanceolate + 6 mm. longe. Calyx 
+ 1:2 cm. longus. Carina + 9 mm. longa. 
10, G. RUBROFARINACEA comb, n 
Smithia rubrofarinacea Taub. in sen otall Ost.-Afr. C, 216 
(1895). 
Hab. Central African Lake Regio Ukomo, Stuhlmann. 
Stevenson Road, Scott Hiliot, nn. 8284! ee 8305! Nyika Plateau, 
Maclownie, n. 159! 
11. G. MEGALOPHYLLA comb. nov. 
Smitha megalophylia Harms _ in Engler Jahrb. xxvi. 292 
(1899). 
Hab. es Huilla, Antunes, n. 94. On the Longa, 
Baum, n. 706! 
THE AFFINITIES OF PAONIA, 
By W. C. Worsvett, F.L.S. 
Bene at present engaged in a detailed study of the vascular 
anatomy of the Ranunculacee, cae ia noliacee, and other allied orders 
belonging to Engler’s Ranales, I have been struck, as doubtless 
many ee has been before me, with the fact that the ga 
anatomy of the leaf and axis of P@onia, which genus has bee 
and still is, persistently vat by sytematists in the Staliieulacec 
(one of the most unnatura natural” orders) is wholly unlike 
that of thie members of th is group ; i. on the other hand, it bears 
a most pera agpienreee2| to ntl of Magnoliacee and coca 
thacee and e in e res an that of > sera As 
Folaborie we see a * sight link with that of Paonia in the fact 
that the bundles are often arched, ¢.e. tend towards a periphloic 
structure, and the end-bundles of the petiolar arc are sometimes 
quite concentric fescitih laiay in structure, just as in the case of 
some of the lateral bundles in sSeetbens But in the stem Lon 
