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in the dry season it dies down, and the cattle would then starve had 
they nothing else x subsist on, In Barbados it is customary for those 
ns who rear cattle on the lands on which this grass is found, to 
take them to the payed kein in the dry season, where the are fed on 
the tops of the sugar canes, which are at that time plentiful." 
CCCCLXXV.—DIAGNOSES AFRICANA, VII. 
( Continued from p. 153.) 
The plants described below are the ieee novelties of the hers 
of Somali-land plants briefiy referred to in the current volume of th 
Bulletin, p. 158. Most of the plants were ee by Miss Edith Cole 
and Mrs, Lort Phillips, but these ladies were assisted by Mr. E. Lort 
Phillips, the leader of the expedition, and the other members of the 
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party, Messrs. G. Aylmer and F. G. Gunnis, as well as by their 
native attendants, MAN one Egga Nelayia. The country botanised 
ies immediately s th of Berbera, extending to the Golis range of 
mountains, which rises to an altitude of 5900 feet; and it was here 
where the majority of the plants was collected. In this part the 
vegetation is luxuriant and varied, and there is evidently yet a rich field 
for the explorer. From a series of photographs brought home by the 
party, it is evident that the country in many places is covered wit 
forest, the scenery is both curious and attractive, and the 
generally is by no means of the desert character commonly assumed 
The present senna dyes d host t 350 species, of which i: including 
three new gen ously undescribed, Among the new 
generic types Cy vem Pirna) | is the most RO ds rthy. 
It is distineutched by a eA remarkable calyx, which is divided eA 
the median plane, almost to the base, = two equal x orm-orbic 
segments. Among the living plants and bulbs bro 
part are KIM novelties, ineluding one or two anaes of Eulophia, of 
which ‘hee e dried inflorescences. ‘These will be described when 
they flo 
257. Farsetia longistyla, Baker [ Cruciferz]; annua, e basi ramosissima, 
caulibus gracilibus pilis albis adpressis strigosis, foliis Regin remotis 
subsessilibus linearibus integris utrinque dense al albo- is, racemis 
laxissimis paucifloris, pedicellis brevibus sscendentibus. di a 'sepalis 
oblongis strigosis, * ruis m limbo parvo oblongo purpureo, fructu 
lineari plano paree strigoso, valvis aiiai aceis nervo centrali obscuro 
menia stylo KANS seminibus orbieularibus distincte alatis. — 
Habitat —Somali-land : Goetten, Miss Edith Cole, Mrs. Lort 
Phillips. ; 
Caulis sesquipedalis. Folia inferiora, 1j-2 poll. longa. Sepala 
2 lin. longa. Fructus 9-12 lin. longus, 2 lin. latus. Stylus 2 lin. 
lo com 
stenoptera, Hochst, (F. PUN Jaub. et Spach) 
Differs "E its stole er flowers and longer style. 
. Polygala somaliensis, Baker [Polygalacew]; perennis, glabra, 
enti firmis viridibus virgatis, foliis sparsis subsessilibus lanceolatis 
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