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A PARAGRAPH in a recent number of NATURE (p. 470) mentions the discovery of a new species of Ouvirandra in Eastern Africa, the genus being hitherto supposed to be peculiar to Madagascar. The plant in question, which was collected by Dr. Hildebrandt, is, however, as has been pointed out by Dr. Trimen and myself (Gardeners' Chronicle, February 1, p. 149), not a species of Ouvirandra, being destitute of the fenestrated leaves, which is the only distinguishing character of that not very sound genus. It is, in fact, a well-known and widely-distributed African plant, Aponogeton leptostachyus, E. Mey. Dr. Hildebrandt, when lately in this country, fully assented to this identification.
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DYER, W. Madagascar Forms in Africa. Nature 19, 527 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019527c0
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