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long., maxima pro parte sub solo absconditus. Rami # 2-0'3 cm. 

 diam. Foliorum limbus 4*5 80 cm. long., 0*4-0-7 cm. lat., in 

 sicco dilute lutescenti-viridis ; petioli circa 0*5 cm. long, vel minus. 

 Calycis lobi 0*5 cm. long., basi 0*12 cm. lat. Corollae tubus 0-3 cm. 

 long. ; ore 0*5 cm. diam. ; lobi 6*0 cm. long., basi 0*6 cm. lat. 

 Coronae phyllorum cupula 0*12 cm. alt. ; hujus lobuli circa 005 x 

 0045 cm. ; phylla interiora 01 cm. long., antheras ad 0035 cm. 

 excedentia. Pollinia ovoidea, 05 cm. long. 



A remarkable plant, with close affinity to B. Johns toni N. E. 

 Br., but easily distinguished by its longer leaves, flowers without 

 pedicels, smaller calyx-lobes, considerably shorter lobes to its less 

 copiously hairy corollas, tabulate (not toothed) outer corona, and 

 the leaves of its inner corona distinctly exceeding the anthers. 

 The fruit of both species is unknown. 



11 Corolla dusky green in its free portion, dark red within [i. e. 

 in the centre] , as is corona. The plant has a rather fetid smell. 

 Tuber dried, pounded and taken as medicine for pains in the 

 chest.'' 



SCROPHULARIACEJE. 



Ilysanthes albertina, sp. nov. Annua, parvula, erecta, minu- 

 tissime puberula, caule simplici vel saepius ramuloso gracillimo, 

 foliis sessilibus subsessilibusve parvis linearibus nonnunquam 

 rarissime denticulatis aliter integris, pedunculis gracilibus folia 

 saepissime excedentibus, calyce tubuloso in lobos 5 semidiviso lobis 

 lineari-lanceolatis leviter acuminatis, corollas albae tubo calycem 

 paullo excedente labio postico deltoideo-ovato apice breviter bilo- 

 bulato lobulis linearibus acuminatis labio antico 3-lobo lobis omnibus 

 inter se subaequalibus suborbicularibus, staminodiis basi gibbosis 

 complanatis apice acutis omnino anantheriferis, capsula parvula 

 anguste oblonga sursuin attenuata valvis tandem maxime diver- 

 gentibus, seminibus minutis. 



Hab. Near Ngusi Eiver, Lake Albert Edward ; Bagshawe, 1383. 



Planta summum vix 10*0 cm. alt., plerumque humilior. Folia 

 omnia opposita, 0-3-0-6 cm. long., crassiuscula. Pedunculi circa 

 0-5 cm. long. Calyx modo 0*2 cm. long. ; lobi circa 0*1 cm. long., 

 apice fusci. Corollae tubus 0*3 cm. long. ; labium posticum 0*2 cm. 

 long., basi 015 cm. lat., hujus lobuli 0*05 cm. tang. ; labium anti- 

 cum 0*2 cm. long. ; tabus intermedins 01 cm. long., 0*09 cm. lat. 

 Antherarum loculi ovoidei 005 cm. long. Staminodia 0*08 cm. 

 long. Stylus subinclusus, hujus lamellae 0*05 cm. diam. Capsula 

 0*4 cm. long. Semina 002 cm. diam., brunnea. 



Differs from /. ng and ens is Skan chiefly in the narrow shortly 

 acuminate lobes of the calyx, the shorter corolla-tube, and the 

 bilobulate upper lip of the corolla ; from I. andongemsis Hiern also 

 in the calyx and upper lip of the corolla. The staminodes and the 

 small narrow capsules with their minute seeds are additional 

 points wherein it can be distinguished from both these species. 



AcANTHACE^. 



Brillantaisia grandidentata, sp. nov. 



ram is 



validis tetragonis puberulis, foliis inferioribus maximis latissime 



2 b 2 



