600 DECADES PLANTAEUM NOVARUM AUSTRO-AFRICANAKUM. it grew C. aspem Willd. var. siibifiermisKnetz., C. cayiescens Loisel. (only known before in Ireland from Mr. Scully's Co. Kerry station), and Tohjpella rjlomemta Leonh. — ** a form approaching T. nidifica " (Groves in litt.). I believe that this sheet of water requires a more systematic search ; the day of my visit was dull and gusty, and the only available drag was an umbrella, as I had not expected to come across aquatic plants. Chara vulgaris L. var. papUlata Wallr. is plentiful in marsh-ditches a little way north of the lake. DECADES PLANTAEUM NOVAKUM AUSTEO- ,^„,^. ...:^ , AFEICANARUM. .^.^,._ ,, 'Kio-l'L'iiiili Isv ,aiijjijkjjjiiaii-iiii ?.i»jL o.uaiW.oiilg ,8JJclWil9lBq-^- •^' • i'jji/did- ■joiq.i; bn'^)iiii aiiig'LBm g^mjxjao.Uii aupooxqii iaaii ,
- 11. Muraltla Dodii, ,8^.inr ; Pumila e basi valde ramosa,
c. 10 cm. alta ; ramulis erectis vel adscendentibus, villosis, demum glabrescentibus, dense foliatis; foliis fasciculatis, lineari-lanceolatis pungenti-mucronatis, dorso rotundatis subvilloso-ciliatis, demum subglabresceutibus, 0-6-1 cm. longis ; floribus sessilibus singulis, illis M. tenuifolicB DO. similibus; calycis segmentis subaequalibus ovatis acutis vel breviter acuminatis, glabris, c. 02 cm. longis ; floribus pallide roseis, carina sanguinea, petalis liberis erectis e basi lineari connata intus villosa, dimidio superiore subito in laminam oblique cochlearem obtusam dilatatis, vix 0-4 cm. excedentibus ; carina 0*4 cm. louga, ungue lineari, lamina cucullata obtusa intus glabra, appendicibus petaloideis e basi cuneata obcordatis, c. 0*2 cm. longis ; capsula suborbiculari obtusissima ecornuta, pilosula ; semi- nibus oblique ovoideis, breviter hispid ulis. In regione austro-occidentali : in colle arenosa prope Simons- town, 4 Apr. 1896, Capt. Wolley Dod, No. 941. An ally to M. ciliaris DC. and M. dccipie?is Schltr.,'^' differing from the latter by the want of the slender horns on the capsule ; from the former by the petals and the carina. The flowers are white or pale pi>?J^.^. ;yitU, 9^ .p,i?^BlJ9^ Qniy,^,sipgle specimen was found, .jj^joij /iies XMl avv^^^3^% /cV o'lom offh'iMH 12. Psammotropha frigida, §p. n.' Exigua, depressa, vix 5 cm. diametro, e basi ramosissima, glaberrima ; ramis filiformibus, abbreviatis, dense foliatis ; foliis anguste oblongis basin versus vix angustatis mucronulatis, ad apices ramulorum dense fascicu- latis, 0-2-0-3 cm. longis ; pedunculis 2-3 ex apice fasciculorum, filiformibus, O'5-l cm. longis, rigidiusculis, floribus in umbellis 1-3 sessilibus ad internodia, pedicellis filiformibus perigonio haud sBquilongis, bracteolis minutis linearibus pedicellis vix sequilongis ; perigonii segmentis oblongis obtusis anguste membranaceo-margi- natis, 0*2 cm. haud.sequantibus ; staminibus erectis, quam segmentis . ^■{ • i](U -OJ' ' - — ~ — ~-t- " * In Engl. JahrbUch, ined.
