ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 128-129.] AUGUST-SEPTEMBER. (1897. 
r DLXXV.—DIAGNOSES AFRICANÆ, X. 
The following descriptions include some of the novelties con- 
tained in several important collections recently received at Kew 
That of Dr. Forsyth Major, amounting to 575 species was made in 
Central Madagascar, an area in which he had been preceded by 
the Rev. R. Baron; the proportion of new species found was 
consequently T so great as it would otherwise have been. 
Mr. G. L. Bates has sent several small collections from the 
Cameroons eco and although he bas not penetrated far into the 
interior, he has succeeded in discovering a number of POE 
undescribed plants. Sir Harry H. Johnston, late 
missioner in British Central Africa, has transmitted to Kew ths 
extensive and important collections ET by Mr. Alexander Whyte, 
Head of Scientific Department, Zom ore arge portion of these 
were made in North Nyasaland, a giis which had never 
Gonos been explored Errep e 
418. Cleome debere Baker [Capparidee]; ad C. mono- 
phyllam, Linn., ; 
Herba erecta, pcm pubescens. Folia ere lanceolata, 
acuta, integra, ascendentia, inferiora 14-2 poll. longa, superiora 
valde reducta. Flores axillares, iggy nedioellis 3-6 lin. longis, 
fructiferis patulis. Sepala lanceolata, dense pubescentia, 2 lin. 
longa. Petala obovata, Du unguiculata, pcm calyce pa aulo 
longiora. Stamina 8-10, calyci squilonga. Capsula verge 
2-24 poll. longa, pubescens, crebre fangtiedihnaliter nervata, ad 
basin sensim angustata, valvis a placentis demum dinde. 
Semina curvata, pallide brunnea, glabra, rugis transversis ornata. 
VU BRETIAR CENTRAL AFRICA. Plains of Zomba, alt. 2500--3500 ft., 
yte. 
419. Pittosporum oblongifolium, C. H. Wright Je ch ; 
arborescens, foliis oblongis glabris chartaceis, cymis pauciflori 
14538—1375—9/97 Wt 6] D&S 29 A 
