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suum exserta. Styli rami 0*45 cm. long, appendice 0*125 cm. long, 

 haud exempta. Achaenia 0*4 cm., pappus 1-0 cm. long. 



A very tine plant, differing from N. abyssinica A. Rich, chiefly 

 in the foliage leaves and the involucre of 19-20 narrow orange- 

 bordered leaves. 



ASCLEPIADE.E. 



Xysmalobium reticulatum N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, 251. 



In grass land near Mbarara, Ankole ; 1256. 



Leaves remarkably broad in comparison with their length, 

 2-3-3-3 cm. long and 1-4-2-3 cm. broad ; indeed, sometimes they 

 are almost if not quite as broad as long. This is a very variable 

 species as regards foliage. 



Schizoglossum cordatum, sp. nov., syn. S. Petherickianum 

 Oliv. var. cordata S. Moore in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. 184. 



Hab. Foot of Kabuga Hill, Toro ; Bagshawe, 1225. 



The chief differences between this and S. Petherickianum are 

 mentioned in the reference as above. The most important of 

 these differences is the pedunculate inflorescence of S. cordatum, all 

 the specimens of the other having sessile umbels, characters of 

 sufficient constancy to warrant their use in the careful clavis 

 drawn up by Mr. N. E. Brown (Flor. Trop. Afr. iv. sect. i. 355). 

 In addition to the different dimensions of calyx and corolla-lobes, 

 I find the leaves of the corona somewhat different in the proposed 

 new species, being shorter relatively to the staminal-column, 

 indeed, scarcely overlapping it at all, and with three strongly 

 marked teeth at the top ; moreover, the two wing-like keels on the 

 inner face of the coronal lobes reach as far up as the lobes them- 

 selves, instead of ending below the top. 



Cynanchum fratermm N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. 1895, 256. 

 South-west of Lake Albert ; 1311. 



Brachystelma Bagshawei, sp. nov. Planta humilis caule e 

 tubere satis magno abbreviate juxta solum pauciramoso, ramis 

 in sicco compressis bene foliosis crassiusculis puberulis, foliis 

 linearibus ramus anguste lineari-lanceolatis apicem versus sensim 

 attenuatis apice ipso acutis basi in petiolum brevem sat latum 

 attenuatis leviter crassiusculis secus costam centralem pag. inf. 

 eminentem puberulis ceteroquin fere omnimodo glabris, floribus 

 pro rata magnis in umbella sessili pauciflora foliorum summorum 

 axillam tenente dispositis, pedicellis 0, calycis lobis lineari-lanceo- 

 latis sursum attenuatis extus piloso-puberulis basi glandulis 2 

 paryulis onustis, corollse magnae tubo lato abbreviate extus glabro 

 in sicco fusco lobis a basi sat lata lanceolatis sursum longe caudate- 

 attenuatis dorso glabris intus villosulis, coronse phyllis exterioribiis 

 e basi gynostegii ortis cupulam 10-lobulatam efformantibus lobulis 

 triangularibus apice barbellatis phyllis interioribus oblongis ob- 

 tusissimis antherarum dorso incumbentibus idque paullo exceden- 

 tibus, stylo apice convexiusculo. 



Hab. Kitakwenda, Toro ; Bagshawe, 1223. 



Planta f -spithamea. Tuber ex schedis cl. lectoris circa 8*0 cm. 

 diam. et 2*5 cm. alt. Caulis indivisus incrassatus, adusque 7*5 cm. 



