﻿Of the known species of this highly interesting genus, which 

 seems to be confined to South Africa, Dichazlia pygmaa is the 

 smallest. Since I have come to the conclusion that Brachy- 

 stehnaria, which I formerly made a section of DicJudio, should 

 rather rank as a distinct genus, Dichalia must be reduced to a 

 single section, viz., my first, Eu-Dichalia. From all the species of 

 this section D. pygmaa is different by the not deeply bifid, but 

 short, emarginated outer corona-scales. It is also very easily recog- 

 nised from all the others by its very short flowers. 



The genus Dichalia has been united incorrectly by some botanists 

 with Brachystelma R. Br. ; but it is in fact quite distinct from the 

 latter, and has more affinity with Ceropegia than with any others, 

 and therefore is better placed next to this genus, with which it also 

 somewhat agrees in the shape of the corolla. Here I may mention 

 that the plant figured lately by Hemsley and Collett (in Joum. 

 Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxviii. t. 14) as Brachystelma edule Hemsl. et Coll. 

 does not seem to me to be a true Brachystelma; the shape of the 

 corona is quite distinct from that of this genus. 



RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF WEST 

 GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTH. 

 By W. A. Shoolbred, M.R.C.S. 



In the last edition (1888) of Topographical Botany the records 

 from Monmouthshire are somewhat scanty, and several of the more 

 widely distributed plants are not recorded there for either that 

 county or for the adjacent vice-county of West Gloucester. Since 

 that date many of the gaps have been filled in through the 

 observations of the late Mr. Burton M. Watkins, the Rev. Augustin 

 Ley, the Rev. H. P. Reader, Mr. Whitwell, and others, some of 

 which have been recorded in this Journal and in the Reports of the 

 Record and Exchange Clubs. 



I have notes of about 200 species which have been found, mostly 

 during the past six or seven years, by myself and others in the 

 Chepstow district, either in West Gloucestershire or Monmouth- 

 shire, or in both counties, which are not catalogued in Topographical 

 Botany under their respective vice-comital numbers, 34 and 35'. 



With only one or two exceptions, all the plants in the following 

 list have been gathered or seen by me in the localities named, and 

 for many of the records I am alone responsible. In the case of 

 anything of special interest having been to my knowledge previously 

 found in the district by someone else, the name of the first finder is 



^ The Rev. A. Ley kindly supplied me with a list of plants found 

 some few years ago in the district by Mr. B. M. Watkins and him- 

 self, several of which are additional to their published records. 

 Mr. H. A. Evans, of Westward Ho, formerly resident here, also 

 gave me a list of his finds, which has been of much service. The 



