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_ nearly 4 mm. in diameter; leaves 5-7 cm. long and as broad, with 
a scarcely cordate base and blunt or obscurely apiculate apex ; 
stalks shorter on the - The many-flowered umbellate 
cymes are borne in the axils of the leaves at the end of the shoot 
and its at branchlets on iabonitiall pubescent peduncles, which 
are rather longer than the subten com leaf-stalk; bracts about 
4 mm. long, densely aie on the back; pedicels sparsely pube- 
scent, longer than the calyx (to 1:5 cm. long) ; sepals about 1 cm. 
long, the two gree: slightly longer, ‘5 cm. broad, apex rounded ; 
corolla about 1:5 cm. broad at the distinctly 5-toothed mouth, 
present. 
Recalls in the shape of the leaf and the general form an nd 
details of the flower I. shirensis Oliv. from British Central Africa 
and Katanga (Porana subrotundifolia De Wild.), but differs in 
the strikingly umbellate inflorescence, in the character of the 
m ; 
mentum, and in t rou pals; also in having white, not 
lilac, flow In sen it it is impossible say 
whether the resemblance is maintained ; J. shtrensis is rem: le 
for its globose one- sttecng fruit, supported by the accrescent, 
spreading, rigid sep: 
I have named Phis species in honour of Conselheiro Antonio 
Ramada Curto, the recent Governor of Angola, under whose 
rig es Mr. Gossweiler undertook his work of botanical explora- 
tion in the Ganguella and Ambuella country. 
Argyreia Bagshawei, sp. nov. Suffrutex alte scandens, 
caulibus teretibus, siccis rugulosis, pubescentibus dein roe glabre- 
scentibus; foliis late ovato-cordatis, in facie superiore glabris, 
dorso albide-pubescentibus et punctato-glandulosis, slain pube- 
rulis laminas subequantibus; floribus pluribus speciosis in pedun- 
culis robustis brevibus aggregatis, bracteis caducis, pedicellis 
brevibus; sepalis arcte imbricatis, orbicularibus ad late ovalibus, 
infu ndibuliforme, saturate rosea, areis meso pet s bene limitatis 
apice pubescentibus; staminibus equilongis in extremo basi 
densiter pilosis ; fructu i ignota. 
ab. Uganda: Unyoro, near Masinde, 3000 ft., Jan. 12th, 
Bagshawe, no. 869; twiner, with handsome maroon flowers ; Toro, 
phi near mouth of Mpanga cs 3500 ft., Aug., Bagshawe, 
