1032 ADDITIONS AND COKRECTIONS. 



Page 810, line 23. For " Lorcmthus Buchneri Engl.," read 

 " L. sessilifoUus P. Beauv." 



Page 824, lines 11 to 23. Substitute the following : — 



1. Ecbolium Clarkei Hiern, sp. n. 



E. amplexicaule C. B. 01. in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. p. 237 (1900), 

 partly ; not of S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1894, p. 136. Jmtieia sp., 

 S. Moore, I.e., 1880, p. 342. 



An undershrub, 2 to 4 ft. high ; branches erect-patent, glabres- 

 oent or towards the apex puberulous, glaucescent ; leaves oval- or 

 ovate-oblong, more or less obtusely narrowed at the apex or -the 

 upper ones rather acute, broad subcordate-truncate and often 

 somewhat hastate-auriculate at the subsessile base, not panduri- 

 form, chartaceous, glabrous or glabrescent, greenish-glaucescent, 

 pallid beneath, l^ to 4f in. long, by f to 2' in. broad ; petioles- 

 ^ to Jg- in. long, rather broad, fleshy, jointed to the branchlets at 

 the nodes ; spikes terminal, 2 to 4 in. long, shortly pedunculate ; 

 bracts oval or ovate, acutely cuspidate or acuminate at the apex, 

 narrowed or nearly rounded but not cordate at the subsessile base, 

 puberulous, f to 1 in. long, j to -I in. broad ; calyx puberulous, 

 J in. long, bibracteolate ; bracteoles narrow, rather shorter than 

 the calyx; corolla elongate-funnelshaped, 1|- in. longj the tube 

 for the most part very slender and outside pubescent with 

 spreading-deflected hairs, somewhat dilated towards the base, 

 funnel-shaped at the apex ; limb bilabiate ; the anterior lip ^ in. 

 long, with three oval obtuse segments, the middle segment J to 

 y\ in. broad, the lateral segments j^ to i in. broad ; the posterior 

 lip sublinear, bifid at the apex, obtuse, -f-g in. long, ^ in. broad ; 

 stamens 2, inserted at the throat of the corolla or a little below ; 

 anthers bilocular, -^ in. long, glabrous; the cells parallel, one of 

 them a very little higher than the other, minutely mucronate 

 at the base; pollen (according to C. B. Clarke ms.) snbglobose, 

 smooth, with the meridional slits narrow, very short and not 

 nearly reaching the pole ; ovary bilocular, shortly hairy ; stigma- 

 bifid, terminating the very long style; capsule f to 1 in. long, 

 laterally compressed, puberulous; seeds 2, compressed, smooth, 

 not tuberculate, obliquely subrotund, somewhat thickened around 

 the margin, emarginate at the hilum, J in. in diameter or rather 

 more, glabrous, usually pallid. 



LoANDA. — In sandy thickets near Penedo, and in public but little 

 frequented places in the city of Loanda ; fl. and fr. Deo. 1858. 

 Nos. 5203, 5124. 



Also common at Ambriz, where it was collected by Monteiro in 

 Nov. 1872. 



The distinctness of this plant from the type of S. amplexicauUs has 

 been pointed out to me by Mr. S. Moore. 



Page 837, line 16; For "Vitex huillensis Hiern, sp. n.," read 

 " V. grisea Baker in Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 325 (1900)." 



Page 873, line 15. For 5830 read 5530. 



