194 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Hab. Britisu Cenrrat Arrica. Fwambo, south of Tanganyika, 
at an altitude 5250 ft., W. H. Nutt! Herb. Kew 
A slender annual, in = specimens which I have seen 1-2 cm. 
high, allied in some respects to J. cuneata Baker. Leaves simple 
and pinnately trifoliolate ; Sele trifoliolate the terminal leaflet 
ig rica en the lateral, and the lateral leaflets are opposite. 
Leaflets 5-7 mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad at the broadest point. In 
the pedi leaves the petiole is not as long as the lamina. Stipules 
linear, + 2mm. long. Peduncle 1-1-3 cm. long. Calyx not half 
as long as the flower, 1:25 mm. long. Legume nearly 1 cm. long. 
*** Suffruticose. Leaflets obovate oblong, obtuse. 
46. I, unecans Schum. “Sie ao Pl. p. 868 (1828). 
Hab. Upper Guinea. 
This is probably the J. winceine described in Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 
p. 78, and collected on the banks of the Niger by Dr. Batkie. 
* Suffruticose. Leaflets linear-obovate. 
oil I. yierttana Hook. fil. in Niger Flora, 294 (1849); Baker, 
Le. 7 
Hab. Uprer Guinea. Banks of the Quorra, Vogel! 
(To be continued.) 
WAYFARING NOTES FROM THE TRANSVAAL.—II. 
By R. Frank Ranp, M.D., F.L.S. * 
Jowannessure. Early November, 1902.—The rains which fell 
freely in the latter part of October have already had their effect 
upon the veld, hag shows green in its hollows and less brown 
upon its uplan 
The flowers of Xerophyta retinervis Baker (905) have come and 
gone. It is plentiful upon the northern escarpment of the Wit- 
flo 
Th ers of this — appear 
denly, and in a few days thereafter no more are to be . oe 
projects, forming a blunt- spotiited yes pre at their tips. So far 
search for fruit has been without success. 
A considerable number of dwarf, shrubby species of Leguminose, 
and of other orders, bear their flowers close tothe ground. Possibly 
this has reference to the future distribution of their fruits, for in 
South Africa there are many ground-feeding birds, francolins, 
ard, guinea-fowl, &c., and it may be that they are the agents of 
 geed-distribution. 
otis Leonwrus (878) must have a very wide distribution, for 
iicgahi whom eb peeclgetoas Mie Ge Dr. Rand dis te 
ocean on Socndpepemeny have thts xndnhe; chiefly by Spencer 
