Tab. 5487. 



DOMBEYA Burgesses. 



Miss Burgess s Dombeya. 



Nat. Ord. Byttxertace.e. — ^toxADEi/purA Polyanpuia. 



Gen. Char. Involucellum triphyllum, unilateral, deciduum. Calyx quinque- 

 partitus, persistens, laciniis sestivatione valvatis. Corolla petala 5, imo calyci in- 

 serta, obovato-insequilatera, restivatione convoluta, marcescenti-persistentia. Sta- 

 mina 15-20, imo calyci inserta, basi in cupulam brevem connata, quinque ste- 

 rilia iiliformia vel ligulteformia, cum duabus vel tribus fertilibus paullo breviori- 

 bus alternantia ; filamenta riliformia v. subulate; antherce introrsae, biloculares, 

 erectse, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium sessile, quinquelocu- 

 lare. Ovula in loculis 3-4, angulo centrali biseriatim inserta, adscendentia. 

 Stylus terminalis, simplex; stiyma qumqueMuvn, lobis acutis revolutis. Capsula 

 coriacea, quinquelocularis, septicide pentacocca, coccis tandem bivalvibus, abortu 

 monospermis. Semina adscendentia, raphe adnata, chalaza incrassata. Embryo 

 in axi albuminis parci subcarnosi orthotropus ; cotyledonibus foliaceis bipartitis, 

 convolutis ; radicula umbilico proxima, infera. — Arbusculae vel fraticcs, in insulis 

 Borbonicis, Madagascar ia, et partita in Asia tropica crescentes ; pube stellata ; 

 folds alternis, petiolatis, cordatis inteyris vel lobatis, crenatis ; stipulis decidms ; 

 floribus axillaribus, umbellalis vel corymbosis ; involucelli foliolis ovatis v. cor- 

 datis, vel angusto-lanceolatis linearibusve. Endl. 



Dombeya Burgessim; subarborescens, ramis petiolis pedunculisque pubescenti- 

 villosis, folds molliter pubescentibus cordatis acute quinquelobis grosse 

 crenato-serratis, stipulis ovato-acuminatis deciduis, pedunculis petiolo lon- 

 gioribus, floribus cymoso-corymbosis ebracteatis, laciniis calycinis anguste 

 lanceolatis demum reflexis, petalis oblique lato-deltoideis obtusissimis albis 

 basi venisque purpureo pictis, ovario tomentoso. 



Dombeya Burgessife. Gerrard, in Harv. Fl. Cap. Suppl. p. 590. Ilarv. Tlies 

 Cap. v. 2. t. 137-8. 



Dr. Harvey, who alone has described and figured this cli arm- 

 ing tree or shrub, states the height of it at' 8-10 feet. Our 

 plant has in two years' time attained that height, from the period 

 of sowing the seeds, which we received from Dr. Harvey. It 

 has been recently discovered in South Africa by Mr. J. M'Ken, 



JANUARY 1st, 1865. 



