154 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 



NOTES ON AFRICAN PLANTS. 



By Spencer le M. Moore, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



Schizoglossum Hutton^e S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1902, p. 383. 

 It was, I believe, Dr. Schlechter who first drew my attention to 

 this plant, which he informed me was not a Schizoglossum bat a 

 Sisyranthus. More recently Mr. N. E. Brown confirmed this, and 

 on re-examination of the flower I find that I made a strange mis- 

 take in the position of the pollinia, which really are erect instead 

 of pendulous, as in the Schizoglossums. The plant should there- 

 fore be known as Sisyranthus Huttona. Mr. Brown also informs 

 me that the Natal plant collected by Harold Fry (Herb. Galpin, 

 2737), which was considered identical with Sisyranthus Randii 

 8. Moore (Journ. Bot. 1903, p. 201), is really referable not to that 

 species but to S. Huttona. 



Parasia (Belmontia) Thomasii S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1901, 

 p. 260. In his monograph of the genus Sebcea in Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. 1906 (a genus with which Bebnontia is, perhaps somewhat 

 unnecessarily, included), Dr. Schinz was unable to place the above 

 species in his clavis. The characters relied on for this purpose 

 (I.e. pp. 721-2) are firstly, the absence from, or the presence of, 

 a number of glands (" brownsche Korper ") upon the anthers ; and 

 secondly, the presence or absence of a hairy pad or ring round the 

 style. The first of these characters was satisfied iu the description 

 cited above, where three glands, one apical and two basal, are 

 mentioned, but nothing was said about the style. Examination 

 shows this organ to be glabrous throughout, so that the species 

 must be placed near the beginning of the genus, between S. exacoides 

 and S. pusilla. It should be mentioned that the style is not half 

 as long as the corolla-tube, as might be gathered from the descrip- 

 tion, but that it reaches, when still in position, a point about mid- 

 way between the base and throat of the corolla. The real length 

 is about 4*5-5 mm. 



Lankesteria elegans T. And. The locality of the plant alluded 

 to in my recent paper (Journ. Bot. 1907, p. 91), as also the 

 collector, were inadvertently omitted. Dr. Bagshawe found the 

 specimen in the Budongo Forest, Unyoro (no. 923). 



. Vitex isotjensis Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 463. On 

 further examination I find that the plant, named as above in 

 Journ. Bot. 1907, p. 94 (Bulawayo ; Eyles, 1201), is different in 

 several respects from the species described by Miss Gibbs. As it 

 seems to be new, a description of it is here appended. 

 * Vitex Eylesii, sp. nov. Frutex grandis ramulis robustis 

 quadrangularibus molliter fulvo-tomentosis deinde glabrescentibus, 

 foliis saepius 5-foliolatis petiolis sat longis fulvo-tomentellis fultis 

 foliolis obovatis base longiuscule cuneatis apice obtusissimis vel 

 breviter cuspidatis et tunc apice ipso obtusis margine undulatis vel 

 fere omnino integris membranaceis supra pubescentibus subtus 

 griseotomentosis, floribus in cymis pedunculatis divaricatis deneis 



