Pl. Afr. Austr. Extratropica, p. 305), “ Exemplum et mutilum 
cel. Commodore Owen ad Delagoa Bay legit, et nobiscum com- 
municavit.” Our plants were raised from cuttings, sent from the 
Cape of Good Hope, and which he received as dried specimens 
for the herbarium, by Mr. Bowie. The species requires a warm 
and dry house for its successful cultivation. 
Drsor. Stem ten to twelve feet high, moderately branched, - 
rounded and terete, and almost woody below; the branches 
acutely tetragonal, very succulent, as is the whole plant. Leaves 
a foot to a foot and a half long, opposite, impari-pinnate, with 
about five opposite pairs of leaflets, which are sessile, subde- 
current, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, crenate. Rachis very thick, 
deeply furrowed in front. nflorescence terminal, in compound, 
pedunculated, proliferous cymes: sometimes all are proliferous, 
at other times the pedicels bear drooping flowers, one and a 
half inch long. Calye large, inflated, bluntly tetragonal, with 
four, short, acute lobes. Corolla longer than the calyx, urceo- 
lato-cylindrical. Zimé four-lobed. Stamens exserted, alternately 
longer. Ovaria with a blunt scale or gland at the base of each. 
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Fig. 1. Corolla and stamen. 2. The same, laid open :—magnified. 
