Tab. 7895. 

 HEBENSTRETIA comosa. 



Native of 8. Africa. 



Nat. Ord. Selagine^. 

 Genus Hebenstretia, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1127.) 



Hebenstretia (Eubebenstretia) comosa; perenuis, erects, fere glaberrima, 

 ramosa, caule robusto tereti folioso, ramulis puberulis, foliia ^-2-pollicari- 

 bus sessilibus lineari-oblougis-lanceolatisve subacutis acuminatiave grosse 

 acute serratis, spicis elongatis 2-6 poll, lotigis densifloris, bracteis ovato- 

 lanceolatis corollas tubum subsequantibus herbaceis glabris, calyce oblongo- 

 ovoideo ad £ poll, longo 2-nervi costam versus herbaceo, corolla £ poll, 

 longa, alba v. pallide flava, fauce rubro, lobis subasquilongis 2 interioribus 

 angustioribus. 



H. comosa, Horhst. in Flora, vol. xxviii. pars I. (1845) p. 70 ; Boitr. Fl. Cap. 

 und Natal, p. 134. Choisy in DG. Frodr. vol. xii. p. 5. Bolfe in Dyer 

 Flor. Cap. vol. v. p. 99. 



H. comosa, var. serratifolia, Bolfe in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. ii. pp. 34, 188. 



Hebenstretia is a large African genus, of which, thirty 

 species have been described in the Flora Capensis, and 

 there are others in tropical Africa, some from as far north 

 as Abyssinia. Two have been previously figured in this 

 work. H. dentata, L , t. 483, and H. fndicosa, Thunb. 

 t. 1970. II. comosa has an extended S. African range, 

 from Port Natal, where it is found on the plains near 

 Durban, at the level of the sea, extending to Pilgrim's 

 rest, in the Transvaal, and Griqualand, at elevations of 

 four thousand feet. 



The genus was named by Linnaeus in honour of Pro- 

 fessor John Ernst Hebenstreit, Professor of Botany in 

 Leipzig, who in 1740 proposed a classification of plants 

 according to their fruit. 



H. comosa was, according to a statement in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, by Messrs. Dammann,of San Giovanni, Teduccio, 

 Italy, introduced by their firm into Europe in 1889, and 

 is entered in their catalogue of plants for that year. It 

 was flowered by Mr. Gumbleton at Belgrove, Queen stown, 

 in 1892. The specimen here figured was communicated 

 by Messrs. Sutton, of Heading, in September, 1902, 



Mai 1st, 1903. 



