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Highlands. More recently it has been collected in a leafless con- 
dition by a German traveller very much farther to the north, in 
the Uniamwesi country. 
A very marked peculiarity of the plant is that the bracts, bracteoles, 
and long narrow calyx-lobes, terminate in a club-shaped gland, and 
on this account Mr. Paul Taubert, of Berlin, has considered it should 
be classed as a new genus. Not having identified it with the plant 
described by Baker, Taubert first described and figured it under the 
name of Eminia eminens (Ber. der deutsch. Bot. Gesellschaft, ix. 1891, 
p. 28), and on being informed from Kew that it was the same as 
Rhynchosia! antennulifera , J. G. Baker, he altered the name to 
Eminia antennulifera (Bot. Centralblatt, xlv. 1891), following the rule 
of according priority to the first specific name given to the plant. As 
already mentioned, he had only a leafless specimen to deal with, and 
it was otherwise imperfect, as is clear from his description of the 
inflorescence. 
Whether Eminia can be regarded as a good genus it is not easy to 
decide without examining a large number of the plants most nearly 
allied ; but the gland -tipped calyx -segments seem to aflord a very 
slender character on which to found a genus, especially if we take 
into consideration the extreme variation in the calyx of the genus 
Rhynchosia, as usually limited. This, however, is a secondary 
matter. Buchanan's specimens afford complete material for a 
description, but it will be sufficient to supplement the previously 
published descriptions here : Radix grandis, carnosa ( fide Buchanan), 
caulibus pluripedalibus scandentibus liquescentibus interdum fere 
semipoll, diametro. Folia pinnatim trifoliolata, saepe longe petiolata, 
crassiuscula sed vix coriacea, utrinque sed praecipue subtus appresse 
sericeo-hirsuta vel strigillosa, cum petiolo usque ad 6 poll, longa, 
stipulis parvis oblongis ; foliola breviter petiolulata, late trilobata (usque 
3 poll, longa lataque) lobis rotundatis simul minute apiculatis, 
lateralibus multo minoribus, foliolorum lateralium lobo interior 
interdum fere obsoleto, venis subtus saepe ferrugineis, stipellis subulatis 
ferrugineis. Flores fasciculato-racemosi, racemis usque sesquipedalem 
longis. 
In looking through the tropical African species of Rhynchosia in the 
Kew Herbarium, in connection with the foregoing, a second species 
having gland-tipped bracteoles and calyx -lobes was detected. This 
was collected by Dr. E. Holub in the Leshumo Valley, Zambesi, and 
