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Cormus globosus, 12 cm. diam. ; caulis flexuosus, cum ceteris 
partibus, glaberrimus, ad 62 cm. altus, 0 - 2 — 0 - 3 cm. diam. ; folia 4 — 6, 
erecta linearia acuminata, marginibus leviter incrassatis, ad 48 cm. 
longa, 0'3 — 0'6 cm. lata; spica simplex vel 1- — 2-furcata, laxiuscule 
4 — 6-fl., aequilateralis ; spathae valvae lineari-lanceolatae, acutae vel 
acuminatae, 3 — 4 cm. longae, superiores minores ; perianthium dilute 
carneum, 3 — 5 cm. longum, tubo 1 — T8 cm. longo, segmentis obtusis, 
apice recurvis, exterioribus interioribus distincte longioribus, latera- 
libus ovalibus, supra medium subabrupte angustatis 2 — 3 '4 cm. longis, 
0’9 — 15 cm. latis, superiore cucullato 15 — 2 - 7 cm. longo, inferioribus 
late linearibus, apicem versus leviter angustatis, virido-luteis carneo- 
notatis, interioribus ad 2 cm. longis, 0 5 cm. latis, exteriore 2 - 7 cm. 
longo; stamina ultra dimidium perianthii attingentia; ovarium 
0'4 cm. longum; capsula oblonga obtusa, l'l cm. longa, seminibus 
subplanis, late alatis. 
Cape Province : South-Western Region; Riversdale Div.,Tweekuilen, 
fl. Sept., ./. Muir, 588. South-Eastern Region ; Uitenhage Div., near 
Redhouse, fl. Sept., Florence Paterson, 160. 
Allied to G. tenuis, Baker, but differs in having more leaves, 
shorter perianth tube and the outer segments considerably longer 
than the inner. 
NOTES ON IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES 
By L. BOLUS 
Plumbago tristis, Ait., Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 1. 324. Cape Province : Karroo 
Region ; nr. Prince Albert, on the roadside between P. Albert and 
Fraserberg, fl. Sept., Anna M. Tugwell (Bolus Herbarium, No. 13,488). 
Racemes up to 10 cm. long, 16-fld., the rhachis flexuous ; lobes of 
the corolla obovate subtruncate, 0'8 cm. long. Plate XIV, C. 
This plant was originally collected by Masson, probably on his 
third journey when he crossed the Karroo from the Roggeveldbergen 
to the Bokkeveld. The refinding of Phaeocephalus gnidioides, sp. 
Moore, previously only known from Massons collection, neai Piince 
Albert, was a parallel case. 
Holubia saccata, Oliver, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1475. Kalahari Region, Bechuana- 
land ; Mochudi, fruiting May, W. H. Harbor (F. A. Rogers, No. 6450). 
Capsule amply 4-winged, up to 4 cm. long, 5 cm. wide, 16- 
seeded, seeds obovate-cuneate, crenulate on the margin, alveolate. 
Plate XIV, D. 
