the Transvaal, Rhodesia, and Matabeleland, and of Uiten- 

 hage, in the Cape Colony; seeds of it were sent from the 

 latter district to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1899, by Mr. 

 Charles Howlett, now Curator of the Botanic Gardens of 

 Graaf Reinet, formerly of the Royal Gardens, Kew, a plant 

 raised from which flowered in the Temperate House in 

 October, 1902. 



Descr. — A lofty, climbing shrub, with silkily tomentose 

 branches, leaves beneath, peduncles, pedicels, and calyces. 

 Leaves one to four inches long, opposite, shortly petioled, 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, tip mucronate, base rounded or 

 cordate; petiole short, biglandular above the middle. 

 Flowers sub-corymbosely clustered at the ends of the 

 branches, an inch to an inch and a half broad, golden- 

 yellow; peduncles an inch long or more, bibracteolate 

 above the middle. Sepals oblong, tips rounded, enlarged 

 in fruit. Petals sub-equal, shortly clawed, orbicular, 

 margins crisped. Filaments as long as the sepals, connate 

 at the base. Ovary hirsute, styles divaricate. Fruit of 

 two or three dry, broadly winged, indehiscent carpels; 

 wings about half an inch, long, obliquely obovoicl, 

 coriaceous. — J. D. II. 



Fig. 1, peduncle, bracteoles, and bract ; 2, flower with the petals removed ; 

 3 and 4, anthers; 5, pistil; 6, vertical section of ovary; 7, lurked haira of 

 tomentum ; 8, fruit from herbarium specimen : — all but fig. 1 enlarged. 



