Tas. 6267. 
TURRAA OBTUSIFOLIA. 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Metiacea.—Tribe Metin. 
Genus Turraa, Linn. (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 331). 
Turrma obtusifolia; glaberrima, ramis virgatis, foliis 1-2-pollicaribus obovatis v, ob- 
lanceolatis obtusis integris v. obtuse 3-lobis basi angustatis subsessilibus v. 
breviter petiolatis, nervis obscuris, floribus solitariis v. paucis pedunculatis, 
calycis glaberrimi dentibus acutis, petalis 1-14-pollicaribus longe unguicu- 
latis anguste spathulatis, tubo stamineo anguste cylindraceo, ore multifido, 
segmentis subulatis stellatim patentibus, ovario 5-loculari, stigmate mallei- 
forme truncato suleato, capsula globosa 3-valvi coriacea, seminibus dorso- 
rotundatis. 
T. obtusifolia, Hochst. in Flora, vol. xxvii. pars 1, p. 296 ; Harv, et Sond. Fl. Cap. 
vol. i, p. 245; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afric. vol. i. p. 331. 
A native of woods and bushy places in the eastern districts 
of South Africa, extending from Albany to Natal, apparently 
most common in the eastward; it also occurs as far north as 
Lake Ngamo in latitude 21° south, where it was gathered 
by McCabe, and in Sechualis country, the specimens from 
whence have narrower leaves. : z 
The genus Turrea consists of pretty white-flowered shrubs 
and small trees of tropical Asia and Africa; about sixteen 
Species are known. 7”. obtusifolia was raised from seeds sent 
to the Royal Garden by H. Hutton, Esq., of Graafreimet, in 
1872, which flowered in the present year. ee 
Duscr. A shrub 4—6 feet high, with slender strict branches, 
everywhere except the young foliage, quite glabrous. Leaves 
alternate and fascicled, three-quarters to one and a quarter or 
one and a half inches long, obovate or ob-lanceolate, obtuse, 
entire or obtusely 3- rarely 5-lobed above the middle, gradu- — 
ally narrowed into a very short petiole, bright green, nerves 
obscure. Flowers inodorous, axillary, solitary or a few 
fascicled together ; peduncles slender, with minute bracts at 
the base; much shorter than the leaves. Calyx small, cam- 
