Tas. 7418. 
TRICHOCLADUS Granpiriorvs. 
Native of the Transvaal. 
Nat. Ord. HamMamMELIDEA 
Genus Tricnoctapvs, Pers. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 667.) 
Tricnoctapus grandiflorus; frutex v. arbuscula, ramulis rubro punctatis 
novellis racemisque stellato-puberulis, foliis petiolatis tenuiter coriaceis 
ovatis subacutis v. ovato-lanceclatis subcaudato-acuminatis apicibus 
obtusis integerrimis reticulatis supra laete viridibus subtus pallidioribus, 
racemis subsessilibus brevibus axillaribus et terminalibus, rachi 
robusto, pedicellis brevissimis, calycis clausi demum 2-3-fidi lobis 
triangulari-ovatis, petalis elongatis loriformibus undulatis albis basi 
roseis, staminibus brevibus, filamentis subglobosis, connectivo in cornu 
uncinatum producto, ovario apice hirto, stylis subulatis recurvis intus 
stigmatosis, capsula globosa. 
T. grandiflorus, Oliver in Hook, Ic. Pl. vol. xv. p. 64, t. 1481. 
Though differing in some important points from the 
type of the genus T’richocladus, with which it accords in 
habit, and in most of its characters of flowers and fruit, 
it must, I think, be regarded as a congener of it. Of 
these characters Professor Oliver has indicated the 2-8-fid 
calyx, and the adhesion of the ovary to the tube of the 
calyx (which he regards as indications of affinity with the 
Malayan genus Maingaya); to which should be added the 
bisexual flowers, and the anthers not being univalvular in 
‘dehiscence. The fruit, which Professor Oliver had not 
seen when describing the species, altogether resembles 
that of 7. crinitus, Pers. 
Five species of T'richocladus have been described, all South 
Africa, 7’. crinitus, Pers., the type of the genus; 1’. ellip- 
ticus and T. verticillatus, Eckl. & Zey.; T. peltatus, 
Meissn., and that here figured. 
Trichocladus grandiflorus was discovered in the Berg 
Plateau of the Transvaal by Mr. C. Mudd, who sent speci- 
mens to Messrs. Veitch in 1883, by whom they were 
transmitted to the Kew Herbarium. It has since then 
been received from Mrs. Royston, of Moodies, and from 
JuNE Ist, 1895, 
