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NOTES ON AFRICAN CONVOLVULACEA.—IIL.* 
By A. B. Rennie, M.A., D.Sc. 
E following notes have been made in the course of determin- 
ing a considerable amount of new material of this order recently 
received * the British Museum from collectors in various parts of 
Tropical Africa. This includes Dr. A. G. Bagshawe’s later collec- 
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tains, in Gazaland, a Cuscuta (C. Lita 2a) hitherto known 
only from specimens sent by Sir Harry Johnson from Mount 
Kilimanjaro. Mr. Gossweiler has continued his aioallahit work in 
supplementing Welwitach's great collections from Angola, both 
by discovery of new species and the enlargement of our knowledge 
of those collected by Dr. Welwitsch ; his recent collection in the 
interior of South-east Angola, in the Ganguellas and Ambuellas 
c s 
Kunene-Zambesi wg neni under Baum, and is proving to 
as well as a large proportion of new species. 
PoRANA DENSIFLORA Hallier f. Of this 1 oa which is known 
from several localities in British and German East Africa, the 
fruit has not gly been seen. Good anaes in both flower - 
and fruit were sent by Dr. Bagshawe from Butiaba Plain, east 
coast of Lake Albert, at 2300 ft. ie (Dec. 24th), no. 843. The 
following is a description of the fruit :—Capsula obtuse ovoidea 
Senate. panne valvis 4 longitudinaliter dehiscens, ‘6 cm. longa, 
circa ‘5 cm. lata; n rotunde-ovoideum rugosum brunneo- 
Siemens. 3 mm um. 
Seddera era Bagshawei, sp. nov. Suffrute x virgatus multiceps 
e rhizomate duro lignoso crasso, caulibus rigidulis elongatis ascen- 
tibus multiramosis tenuibus veluti foliis et facie dorsali sepal- 
 orum cum pilis appressis albis sparsius indutis ; foliis subsessilibus 
Theat tanceolatie integris apice breviter acutis ; floribus numer- 
osis in axillis ramulorum solitariis, breviter pedicellatis, iis S. vir- 
gate similibus ; ealyce campanulato, sepalis exterioribus ovatis vel 
obovatis, intact orbiculari-ovatis, coriaceis apice herbaceis ; 
corolla alba calyce duplo longiore, in areis mesopetalinis albo- 
strigosa; staminibus stylo stigmatibusque ut in S. virgata; cap- 
sula ovoideo-globosa, seminibus saturate rubro-brunneis, glabris. 
* See Journ. Bot. “1901, 12; 1902, 189. 
JouRNAL or Botany. —Vou. 46. [Junz, 1908.] vo) 
