﻿JULY 
  1 
  TO 
  SEPTEMBER 
  30, 
  1910. 
  45 
  

  

  28715 
  to 
  28730— 
  Continued. 
  

  

  28729. 
  Ophiobostryx 
  volubilis 
  (Harvey) 
  Skeels. 
  

  

  (Bowiea 
  volubilis 
  Harvey; 
  Hooker, 
  Botanical 
  Magazine, 
  vol. 
  93, 
  pi. 
  5619. 
  

   1867.) 
  

  

  The 
  original 
  generic 
  name 
  given 
  this 
  curious 
  liliaceous 
  plant 
  is 
  invalid 
  since 
  

   it 
  had 
  been 
  used 
  by 
  Haworth 
  43 
  years 
  earlier 
  (Philosophical 
  Magazine, 
  vol. 
  64, 
  

   p. 
  299, 
  1824) 
  for 
  another 
  proposed 
  genus 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  same 
  family. 
  No 
  

   other 
  name 
  has 
  been 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  later 
  genus 
  Bowiea, 
  and 
  Ophiobostryx 
  is 
  

   therefore 
  proposed, 
  in 
  allusion 
  to 
  the 
  leafless 
  asparaguslike 
  branches 
  suggesting 
  

   snaky 
  locks, 
  such 
  as 
  supplanted 
  hair 
  on 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  the 
  monster 
  Medusa, 
  accord- 
  

   ing 
  to 
  classical 
  mythology. 
  The 
  genus 
  has 
  only 
  one 
  species, 
  0. 
  volubilis. 
  

  

  Ophiobostryx 
  volubilis 
  was 
  first 
  sent 
  to 
  the 
  Royal 
  Gardens, 
  Kew, 
  by 
  Henry 
  

   Hutto, 
  of 
  Grahamstown, 
  South 
  Africa, 
  and 
  has 
  since 
  been 
  found 
  at 
  Katberg 
  in 
  the 
  

   Stockenstrom 
  division 
  of 
  the 
  coast 
  region, 
  in 
  the 
  Orange 
  River 
  Colony 
  and 
  

   Transvaal, 
  in 
  the 
  Kalahari 
  region, 
  and 
  near 
  Transkei, 
  Kokstad, 
  and 
  Durban, 
  

   in 
  the 
  eastern 
  part 
  of 
  Cape 
  Colony. 
  

  

  28730. 
  Mondia 
  whiteii 
  (Hook, 
  f.) 
  Skeels. 
  

  

  (Chlorocodon 
  whiteii 
  Hook, 
  f., 
  Botanical 
  Magazine, 
  pi. 
  5898, 
  1871.) 
  

   The 
  generic 
  name 
  Chlorocodon, 
  " 
  in 
  allusion 
  to 
  the 
  bell-like 
  green 
  flowers, 
  " 
  

   was 
  applied 
  to 
  this 
  plant 
  in 
  1871 
  by 
  Sir 
  Joseph 
  Hooker 
  (Botanical 
  Magazine, 
  vol. 
  

   97, 
  pi. 
  5898), 
  who 
  was 
  doubtless 
  unaware 
  that 
  the 
  name 
  had 
  been 
  used 
  by 
  

   Fourreau 
  in 
  1869 
  (Annales 
  de 
  la 
  Soci6te 
  Linneenne 
  de 
  Lyon, 
  n. 
  s., 
  vol. 
  17, 
  

   p. 
  113) 
  for 
  a 
  proposed 
  genus 
  of 
  ericaceous 
  plants. 
  No 
  other 
  name 
  appears 
  to 
  

   have 
  been 
  used 
  for 
  the 
  later 
  genus 
  known 
  as 
  Chlorocodon, 
  and 
  since 
  a 
  new 
  

   name 
  is 
  necessitated 
  Mondia 
  is 
  proposed, 
  this 
  being 
  an 
  adaptation 
  of 
  the 
  

   native 
  name 
  "Mondi, 
  " 
  or 
  "Mundi," 
  applied 
  to 
  this 
  plant. 
  

  

  Mondia 
  whiteii 
  was 
  originally 
  described 
  from 
  Fundisweni, 
  Natal, 
  but 
  has 
  since 
  

   been 
  collected 
  at 
  Yaunde 
  in 
  Kamerun; 
  Bumbo, 
  Pungo 
  Ndongo, 
  and 
  other 
  

   places 
  in 
  Angola; 
  also 
  at 
  Karagwe 
  and 
  Bukoba 
  in 
  German 
  East 
  Africa, 
  and 
  in 
  

   Nyasaland. 
  

  

  28731 
  and 
  28732. 
  Solanum 
  maglia 
  Schlecht. 
  Wild 
  potato. 
  

  

  From 
  Marseille, 
  France. 
  Presented 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Edouard 
  Heckel, 
  director, 
  Botanic 
  

   Garden. 
  Received 
  September 
  1, 
  1910. 
  

  

  28731. 
  Fourth 
  generation, 
  violet. 
  

  

  28732. 
  Fourth 
  generation, 
  violet. 
  

   Distribution.— 
  See 
  No. 
  28705. 
  

  

  28733 
  to 
  28738. 
  

  

  From 
  Fort 
  Hall, 
  Nairobi, 
  British 
  East 
  Africa. 
  Presented 
  by 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  McClellan, 
  

   Provincial 
  Commission. 
  Received 
  July 
  29, 
  1910. 
  

   Seeds 
  of 
  the 
  following: 
  

  

  28733. 
  Andropogon 
  sorghum 
  (L.) 
  Brot. 
  Sorghum. 
  

   1 
  ' 
  This 
  lot 
  represents 
  a 
  mixture 
  of 
  two 
  of 
  the 
  East 
  African 
  sorghum 
  types, 
  

  

  probably 
  durras, 
  one 
  with 
  white 
  seeds 
  and 
  one 
  with 
  red. 
  Such 
  mixtures 
  are 
  

   commonly 
  received 
  from 
  central 
  East 
  Africa 
  and 
  from 
  Abyssinia, 
  but 
  the 
  

   varieties 
  have 
  always 
  proved 
  too 
  late 
  to 
  mature 
  in 
  this 
  country." 
  (Carleton 
  

   R. 
  Ball.) 
  

  

  28734. 
  Cajan 
  indicum 
  Spreng. 
  

   223 
  

  

  